Cheap LED growlight ideas

Due to difficult access to the proper grow light for plant seedlings - i have to find an alternative light to use for my peppers and papaya seedlings. They need the light to photosynthesis to develop healthy stems and leaves - without the proper or enough lighting the plant will grow leggy which means elongated stems but weak. It will bow or bend towards the sunlight to find enough light to grow.

So I have researched that normal LED bulb is good enough for growlight provided that it comes with the following tech spec.

Color Temperature = 3000K to 6500K (recommend full spectrum at 6500K)
Light intensity = 600 to 1300 Lumens

So I have purchased some for testing the following. This is the LED bulb running on 28 watt power with 600 to 1050 lumens and it perform quite good since i used two of them. This bulb quite cheap and it does the job quite good so far to light up the seedlings







This is just for reference E27 rated at 30 watt power and 6500K color temperature - quite good but no lumen specification is displayed on the box or anywhere. I have not purchase any of this but just for future reference in case I need it.





This down light made for the ceiling square with dimensions of 27 cm x 27 cm wide x length. It's the perfect square to provide light to the plant. The on the box says 24 watt power at 2400 lumens and 6500K color temperature. The sad part is the tech spec for the lumens is fake - the light intensity for this bulb way lower than the first one above. So despite the perfect shape with wider coverage - but low lumens you have to put it very very close to the seedling plants like 5 cm away or barely touch the plants leaves.





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