Led light bulbs for vegg?

are the cheap ones at Walmart ok to use for vegging? Is there any peticular specification to look for when choosing led light bulbs? What wattages work the best for seedlings and for vegging?

Good info thanks a lot

With the bulb/diffuser removed, great.
Higher wattage bulbs tend to be more efficient.

nice @frica, is that 24 x 15W?

CobKits said:

nice @frica, is that 24 x 15W?

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It's 21 8.5W and 3 13.5W bulbs.

they look great!

and that setup is super upgradable if you want to change colors or swap out bulb wattages!

its all about shattering the rubber coated glass on the bulbs so the diodes are exposed. I do this for side lighting to my LED pannels all the time during flower

theyre injection molded plastic and can be popped off in one piece

@Manfromthenorth don't limit yourself to just using them for seedlings and vegging, they can be used for the entire grow. As mentioned above, pop the globe off for extra light output. This was 9x bulbs ranging from 12-15w all giving 1520 lumens with globe, all light going directly towards canopy. You can swap between colours for veg and flower if you want, but not necessary if you can't find cool whites.
I had to put some globes back on mine towards end as bleaching some buds and leaves and I couldn't raise them any higher

CobKits said:

theyre injection molded plastic and can be popped off in one piece

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Id love to know how to do that if u could share.. actually nevermind.. The LED bulbs I had differ from yours.. mine were rubber coated glass.. when i broke off the diffuser it had a rubber coating but was glass on the inner membrane. brand was sylvania.
Im just gonna stick with my setup.. I use a mars 300 and a 180 watt ufo together .. I get 232 actual watts from the wall. I've tested it with an APC computer backup power supply and its 232 watts from the wall of actual full spectrum LED