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Construct Your Own Inexpensive Indoor Grow Lamp
Why Not Just Buy A Grow Lamp Kit From The Internet Or Catalog?
To put it simple. It is the much greater cost of purchasing a prefabricated lighting unit and with many people out of work and left with a much lower source of income it's not time to run up your credit card or deplete some of your well earned savings. I have provided you with easy to follow drawings that tell you what you need to construct your own proffessional growing lamp. The table you will have to provide yourself. A small kitchen table would work out perfectly. Sometimes a local yard sale can turn out to be a goldmine. I have provided a photo of my own lamp assembly, hoping to clarify my drawings.
What Steps Do We Take To Get Started?
We will first need a parts list: Estimated Cost
3- 1 X 3 X 38 inch knot-free pine boards 10.00
4- CFL [Compact Fluorescent Lamps] 10.00
4- porcelain or plastic lamp sockets 5.00
1- Lamp Timer 6.00
1- 4 1/2 " 14 Watt computer cooling fan [used] 5.00
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Total Cost: 36.00
Next: Refer to Figure 1 & 2. Figure 1 shows the final assembly and Figure 2 shows how to mount the porcelain or plastic lamp mounting sockets. I placed mine 7" apart to fit my 4 lamps evenly across the top span. The lamps are wired in parallel as shown in Figure 3. You can now mount the two verticle side pieces that will move up and down to adjust the lamp assembly height to accomodate your growing plants. These side pieces will tie the whole lighting assembly to your growing table.
The lamp assembly wiring is simple and straight forward. The 4 lamps are wired in parallel and then tied to the lamp timer which I purchased for $ 6.00 at a local hardware store. The next item to tie in is the 4 1/2 inch computer cooling fan which draws 14 Watts so that's no big drain on your electric bill. I only run the fan for about 2-hours a day and that is to pollinate the flowers that produce the vegetables. The ongoing cost to run the CFL lamps which are turned on for 12 hours a day comes to $ 4.00 a month and that is based on $ .15 per killowatt/hour in southern New Hampshire. Anyhow, the math brings this to a buck a week. Skipping a cup of coffee for one day will more than cover this cost.
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i'm wanting to cover up heat signals from a grow lamp?
i'm wanting to know what can cover up heat signals from plants and lamps. i heard Styrofoam but i'm not sure what els can you use to cover up the heat waves that are put out
Switch to a non-incandescent lamp, they exist though are more expensive. Depending on what you are growing, and how much of it, note that the cops flag you by your power consumption as well, which again is way lower if you use fluorescent. Saves you money and you help save the planet.
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Growing Bonsai With Artificial Light
Bonsai is a style of gardening that artistically miniaturizes trees by growing them in containers. It got its start in China, but also has famous schools in both Japanese and Korean stylings. While bonsai can be grown as outdoor plants, you can also grow some bonsai indoors using artificial grow lights.
The container adds a lot to the beauty of the bonsai. Make sure your bonsai pot has a drainage hole for excess water to escape. Informally shaped plants look super in round containers, while more formal plants shine in containers in more of a square or rectangular shape. You will want to select a pot that looks nice with the foliage of your bonsai.
The soil in which your bonsai tree lives need to be free draining. You will often find items such as gravel, fired clay pellets, akadama, and kanuma yellow pumice in a bonsai soil mix. The tree will need to be repotted every two years or so, and root pruned. This helps to keep the tree small and also encourages root growth, which helps the tree take in moisture more effectively.
You will need some special hand tools to prune your bonsai properly. A concave cutter will allow you to make pruning cuts that leave no stubs on a branch. Wire pliers, shears, and branch bending jacks are all used to help shape the tree into attractive shapes. The tree is wired with anodized aluminum or copper wire to help maintain the branches in the correct placement until they are set in position.
Wiring the bonsai tree helps to shape it properly. You can perform this task in the spring or fall ideally. You wrap the trunk of your tree in wire, and then spiral the wire around each branch of the tree so you can bend the wire in order to shape the tree as you wish. You then leave this wire on for a single growing season and then remove it before it leaves marks on the bark, or even girdles the tree, which can kill it. Thicker wires are used for stronger branches, and thinner wire for the lighter ones. Be gentle when bending branches, because it is easy to split or break them inadvertently. Instead, work slowly and make small changes, let the tree adapt, and then make another small adjustment, and in this way you can shape the tree without doing damage to it.
Bonsai can be grown successfully under fluorescent grow lights. You will want to keep your grow lamps very close to the top of your tallest tree. Simple light fixtures for this type of bulb come with electronic digital ballasts already installed, so they are plug-in ready. Leave them on daily for 16 hours.
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Susan Slobac is an expert in indoor gardening topics such as hydroponic gardening, digital ballasts and full spectrum grow lights.
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