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Old 03-03-2017, 04:08 PM   #50 (permalink)
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Default Re: Grow light recommendations?

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Originally Posted by Richard View Post
We're talking about "Container Grown Banana Plants" -- not lettuce.

For indoor "Container Grown Banana Plants", what spectrum and what Watts/meter^2 are you recommending?
My growth chamber was used to start tomato seedlings but I briefly grew musa 'Truly Tiny' and musa 'Little Princes' tissue culture plugs in that and they did fine. I used ten 8.5 watt 2700 K LED bulbs and six 10 watt blue LED chips for a total of 145 input watts to cover a 4 ft.^2 area. That translates to 390 input watts/meter^2. I do not recommend it but I call it "more than adequate."

Tomato plants 26 days from planting seeds:


Incidentally, those bulbs cost me $2.50 each back in 2015.

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