artofscience
Active Member
At Home Depot, Lowes, etc., pick up the following supplies:
As many pairs of socket adapters and bulbs as your budget allows, remembering one cord for each pair of other items that you can afford. Even if you only have 10 bucks, you can dramatically reduce internode length and increase plant vigour. 10 bucks will only get you enough light for 1 or maybe 2 plants' worth of SUPPLEMENTAL light. To get at least 3000 lumens/ft2, as is necessary for vegetative growth, you'll need around 2 lights per plant, and reflective material around your light and plant. This means that for 12 plants, you'll need at least 20 lights. Intimidating? It needn't be
Pictured is the cord you need, and the socket you need IN PAIRS, so the bulbs can hang opposite of one another and are thus balanced and stable, with the most-luminous sides of the bulb facing the plant, no matter where you hang it.
Plug a socket into both sides of the extension cord, so that the bulbs hang opposite one another with cord and sockets in-between. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out Screw two bulbs into the sockets. Daisy-chain the pairs of bulbs with that super handy third outlet on the extension cord. Make sure you plug in the next cord into the upper outlet, so that the next cord isn't touching the bulb or blocking the light to your plants.
Watch your plants explode!
As many pairs of socket adapters and bulbs as your budget allows, remembering one cord for each pair of other items that you can afford. Even if you only have 10 bucks, you can dramatically reduce internode length and increase plant vigour. 10 bucks will only get you enough light for 1 or maybe 2 plants' worth of SUPPLEMENTAL light. To get at least 3000 lumens/ft2, as is necessary for vegetative growth, you'll need around 2 lights per plant, and reflective material around your light and plant. This means that for 12 plants, you'll need at least 20 lights. Intimidating? It needn't be
Pictured is the cord you need, and the socket you need IN PAIRS, so the bulbs can hang opposite of one another and are thus balanced and stable, with the most-luminous sides of the bulb facing the plant, no matter where you hang it.
Plug a socket into both sides of the extension cord, so that the bulbs hang opposite one another with cord and sockets in-between. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out
Screw two bulbs into the sockets. Daisy-chain the pairs of bulbs with that super handy third outlet on the extension cord. Make sure you plug in the next cord into the upper outlet, so that the next cord isn't touching the bulb or blocking the light to your plants. Watch your plants explode!
But them splitters and adapters are sweet
