mato
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Since I grow in an apartment, I have long wanted to find a way to expose my plants to varying frequencies of light throughout the day, instead of the typical pitch-black to blindingly-bright (and vice versa) photo period that comes with supplemental lighting. For this reason, I recently received a custom made, waterproof SMD 5050 red/blue 2:1 LED strip from a well known nursery in Germany, which I stripped and spliced to run on a standard 12vdc 60w laptop power supply. The idea is to allow the predominately red LED strips to come on two hours before the high output T5s and to turn off two hours later, with some overlap in between. Theoretically, this should allow the plants a chance to ease in and out of the various "cycles."
LEDs only:

LEDs on, T5s off.

LEDs on, T5s off.

LEDs on, T5s off.
with T5s

LEDs and T5s on.

LEDs and T5s on.
Will provide updates on plant performance in the future...
edit: Turns out the package was labelled incorrectly and these are SMD 5050.
LEDs only:

LEDs on, T5s off.

LEDs on, T5s off.

LEDs on, T5s off.
with T5s

LEDs and T5s on.

LEDs and T5s on.
Will provide updates on plant performance in the future...
edit: Turns out the package was labelled incorrectly and these are SMD 5050.
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