Growing Vegetables With LED Grow Lights

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The essence of the appearance of the growth lamp is to act on all plants, simulating sunlight. In an environment lacking sunlight, it can meet the needs of plant photosynthesis, so that plants can grow normally or even better.

According to the test, the growth efficiency and photosynthetic rate of lettuce are increased by more than 20% by using LED growth lamp lighting.

 

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Do you add any calcium to the water you give to the lettuce?

 

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Yes, the most suitable growth environment will be created during each test, and the addition of nutrients is essential, including nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, magnesium, calcium and some trace elements. The addition of nutrients in hydroponics is more refined.

 

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These are hydroponic sweet peppers, which is expected to grow for about 120 days. We will often test various vegetables, and improve our lights according to the growing trend, growth cycle and final taste of vegetables compared with vegetables grown in normal sunlight.

 

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Are strawberries your favorite fruit? We used VG80 to test strawberry planting, the following is the record after transplanting.

Wattage - 80W (40W Each Light Bar)
Core Coverage: 4ft*2ft

www.mars-hydro.com/vg80-80w-vegetable-led-grow-light

Day 2

Day 7

Day 14

Day 18

Day 27

Day 34

Day 41

 

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The lettuce continues to grow rapidly and the cherry radishes are ripe. By the way, Hydroline12 is also great for cannabis seedlings and cloning.

 

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Application of VG80 in lettuce and mustard

The planting of lettuce and mustard is mainly divided into several steps: seed treatment, sowing, seedling raising, transplanting, and harvesting.
The specific planting steps are as follows:
(1) Seed treatment
For uncoated seeds, soak them in warm water to kill bacteria, put the seeds in hot water at 45°C-50°C, soak the seeds for 20 minutes, then take them out to dry and sow; for coated seeds, they can be sown directly.
(2) Sowing
Mix peat soil and vermiculite at a ratio of 2:1, put it in a 12-hole seedling box, water it to make the humidity of the substrate reach 90%, and then randomly sow 2 seeds in each hole, cover it, and control the ambient temperature at 24°C -26°C, open the cover in time after emergence.
(3) Nursing
During the seedling cultivation process, the nutrient solution with an EC of 1.0mS/cm was poured once, and the light environment was set as follows:

Seedling lamps: VG80
Lamp to pot height (cm): 20
Cultivation light intensity (umol/m2/s): about 220-250
Lighting time (h): 12

(4) Transplanting
Take out the seedlings from the seedling box and transplant them into flower pots. The cultivation medium is peat: vermiculite: perlite = 3:1:1. During the cultivation process, alternate irrigation with nutrient solution (EC1.5mS/cm) and clear water is carried out. When the substrate dries out, water and fertilize once.
The light environment settings are as follows:

Cultivation lamps: VG80
Lamp to pot height (cm): 20
Cultivation light intensity (umol/m2/s): around 220-250
Lighting time (h): 12 hours in the early stage, if heartburn occurs in the later stage, reduce the duration to 10 hours

 

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A variety of plants can be planted in Hydroline12, the pictures below include Lettuce, mint, cilantro, mustard greens.
www.mars-hydro.com/hydroline12-led-hydroponics-growing-system

 

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Can you spot what this is?

 

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Can you spot what this is?

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Tomatoes. This will be very interesting Mars.

 

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Yes, you guessed it. A new round of testing.

Tomatoes. This will be very interesting Mars.

 

[Creeperpark]

Yes, you guessed it. A new round of testing.

It wasn't a guess, anyone could tell friend. I love this thread.

 

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Thanks for your love, above is what they look like on day 9 of transplanting.

 

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This is what they look like on the 16th and 25th day after transplanting. Their complete growth cycle is about 120 days, and we will continue to update.

 

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Application of VG80 in lettuce and mustard

The planting of lettuce and mustard is mainly divided into several steps: seed treatment, sowing, seedling raising, transplanting, and harvesting.
The specific planting steps are as follows:
(1) Seed treatment
For uncoated seeds, soak them in warm water to kill bacteria, put the seeds in hot water at 45°C-50°C, soak the seeds for 20 minutes, then take them out to dry and sow; for coated seeds, they can be sown directly.
(2) Sowing
Mix peat soil and vermiculite at a ratio of 2:1, put it in a 12-hole seedling box, water it to make the humidity of the substrate reach 90%, and then randomly sow 2 seeds in each hole, cover it, and control the ambient temperature at 24°C -26°C, open the cover in time after emergence.
(3) Nursing
During the seedling cultivation process, the nutrient solution with an EC of 1.0mS/cm was poured once, and the light environment was set as follows:

Seedling lamps: VG80
Lamp to pot height (cm): 20
Cultivation light intensity (umol/m2/s): about 220-250
Lighting time (h): 12

(4) Transplanting
Take out the seedlings from the seedling box and transplant them into flower pots. The cultivation medium is peat: vermiculite: perlite = 3:1:1. During the cultivation process, alternate irrigation with nutrient solution (EC1.5mS/cm) and clear water is carried out. When the substrate dries out, water and fertilize once.
The light environment settings are as follows:

Cultivation lamps: VG80
Lamp to pot height (cm): 20
Cultivation light intensity (umol/m2/s): around 220-250
Lighting time (h): 12 hours in the early stage, if heartburn occurs in the later stage, reduce the duration to 10 hours

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For the above article, there is one last step, let us complete it.

(5) Harvesting:
It can be harvested from individual leaves or from the whole plant. If it is purple leaf lettuce, it can be promoted by water control before harvesting.

Precautions:
(1) Height adjustment: When the plant is close to the lamp, the lamp can be raised again, 20cm away from the plant canopy.
(2) Prevent heartburn: When heartburn occurs, the light duration can be shortened from 12 hours to 10 hours.
(3) Pruning: Check the roots and trim off yellowed leaves.
(4) Temperature: Lettuce likes cooler temperatures. If placed at higher temperatures, it will grow leggy, become bitter, head and bloom early.

 

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For the above article, there is one last step, let us complete it.

(5) Harvesting:
It can be harvested from individual leaves or from the whole plant. If it is purple leaf lettuce, it can be promoted by water control before harvesting.

Precautions:
(1) Height adjustment: When the plant is close to the lamp, the lamp can be raised again, 20cm away from the plant canopy.
(2) Prevent heartburn: When heartburn occurs, the light duration can be shortened from 12 hours to 10 hours.
(3) Pruning: Check the roots and trim off yellowed leaves.
(4) Temperature: Lettuce likes cooler temperatures. If placed at higher temperatures, it will grow leggy, become bitter, head and bloom early.

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Show those basil plants.

 

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We had planted basil before, but now we don't have it.

 

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We had planted basil before, but now we don't have it.
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Looks sweet.

 

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2013 Samsung 561 leds...romaine in styro float method with air stone..

 

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2013 Samsung 561 leds...romaine in styro float method with air stone..

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Looks good, their roots soaked in nutrient solution will grow very quickly. What does our hydroponic light look like?