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In Today’s post, we will show you some useful tips and tricks on how to grow any plant including vegetables and fruits indoors in any season using LED grow lights and review BESTVA Pro 4000-Watt LED grow light by practically planting some veggie seeds.
Want to grow edibles indoors even in winter season? Yes! You can grow many plants indoors, including your ornamental houseplants, succulents and even fruits and vegetables in containers. You need an appropriate full spectrum grow light and the main advantage of using grow lights is you can grow any veggie in any time of the year including the winter season. And also, grow lights are ideal for seed starting because they help in faster germination due to the warm temperature.
We will discuss some important tips and tricks on how to successfully grow veggies indoors using grow lights – like adjusting the appropriate amount light of light required for a particular plant by altering the distance or by using the Dimmer switch and many other useful tips.
Let us practically do this by first planting some seeds:
This seed starting mix contains about 30 to 40% compost, some 30% Garden soil and 30% coco peat or peat moss.
Let’s plant tomato seeds first. Just space them well and cover with some mix. Do not sow them too deep.
Now Let’s plant some greens like cilantro or coriander. You need to use the sand paper trick to split the seeds into two before sowing each seed is technically a fruit containing two seeds in it. So, you get two plants from one single seed. You can check a detailed episode on this topic HERE.
Now Let’s plant other green leafy’s like Spinach and Fenugreek. Do not sow them too deep. Cover with a thin layer of potting mix. Generally, the sowing depth = 2 times the seed thickness.
We will also plant some French beans and see how to do under a grow light indoors.
Before we show you the results, let’s review BESTVA Pro 4000-Watt LED grow light and keep all these containers under this grow light and we will simultaneously discuss some tips and tricks on growing plants under artificial lights. We will not bore you with physics or those difficult to understand technical details while discussing the specifications of this light. You can also check links provided below in the description box to see more details and specifications and also purchase links given in description below.
Let us quickly unbox this grow light. The package comes with some useful accessories including these grow room glasses, light hanging strings, rachet hangers and the double power cord and also the user manual. The overall look and design of this light looks awesome.
Bestva Pro 4000 Watt is a large full spectrum grow light with high quality Samsung LM301B LEDs and double Mean Well Drivers which means a long life. This light comes with 3 years warranty. It comes with 3mm thickness aluminum plate radiator for better heat dissipation. Holes on the aluminum plate and the glass make heat convection, run 50~60℉ lower than any other LEDs.
The dimensions of this light are: 543 x 512.6 x 77mm and it weighs 9.4 kgs – that’s huge.
The best part of this light is it comes with a Dimmer Switch which goes from 100% all way down to zero and even with a power off function. This is really helpful for many reasons, which we will discuss later.
Another useful feature is its Auto sensing power supply and works on both 120VAC and 240VAC and 277VAC. It comes with dual power cord. You need to connect it like this into the sockets. This power cord has another on off switch available in the cord itself.
Well, Let us now look into the area covered or the number of plants that can be grown using a single light. Well, according to the company specifications, its actually a large area covered by this grow light. Like Vegetative coverage at 18 inch 7.5 x 7.5 feet and Flowering coverage at 14inch is 6 x 6 feet which is actually a lot of space. You can grow a lot number of plants.
Other technical specifications are: Power Consumption 415W and PPFD 2.9 umol/J.
This light is a full spectrum light covering the entire growth cycles of a plant starting from the seedling stage.
Lets quickly hang this light. This comes with a different hanging design. These knobs are fitted into these grooves or anchor points at four corners and tightened. Then you just hang it to the rachet hanger which allows you to adjust the distance of this light from the plants. This distance is important and varies with the different growth stage of a plant. Like in Seedling stage: 60cm (24″) Growing stage: 40-60 cm (16″- 24″) and Flowering stage: 30-40 cm (12″-16″). If you increase this distance and want to cover a larger area, you need to keep it on for longer than 12 hours. This also depends on whether or not you use a grow tent.
So overall a great quality grow light if you want to grow anything indoors, anytime, any season!
Happy Gardening!
PRODUCT LINKS:
BESTVA PRO 4000W LED GROW LIGHT: https://dada.link/lGxeoy
Official Website: https://www.bestvaled.com
Amazon.com Link: https://www.amazon.com/BESTVA-Dimmable-MeanWell-Greenhouse-Hydroponic/dp/B08PD5TL6Z/
