Newbie indoor salad question

synaps

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Hi peeps - part uni project, part step towards self sufficiency, I've built an indoor vertical salad garden, using an aquarium pump to feed the plants, which are bedded in recycled wine bottles. The system itself sorta works (stole the design from windowfarms.org) but there just isn't enough light in our flat, so Im thinking about sorting out some cheep lighting for it.
The system is in a box, with the hydro tubes running up the left hand side, I want to run fluorescent tubes up the left hand side. To be on the safe side Im thinking the lights need to be in waterproof casing, my question is, would these lights be powerful enough to grow herbs and lettuces, or is there a better option, which won't break the bank?
http://www.meteorelectrical.com/lighting_weather-resistant-batten-ip65_high-frequency-ip65-battens_1-x-18w-batten-c-w-high-frequency-gear-2ft.html?tax_val=1&country_id=222
cheers folks x
 

synaps

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Niceone man, just wondering how safe they'd be in a unit like this,unit without plants.jpg the idea is to have the lights on one side of each box
with a feed tube on the other side pumping water to top bottle, which then trackless down via the other bottles back into the reservoir. I was thinking some sort of weatherproof lighting would be needed like the one in my link, if not wouldn't the moisture short the lighting? Is it possible to run a higher what bulb in those weather proof fittings? If so what sort of bulb would people recommend?


 
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