On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:43:06 +0000, northwards
wrote:


Hi everybody

I'm new to these forums but I've been lurking for a while and they look
really informative. I live in the Cairngorm Mountains, in Aberdeenshire,
in Scotland, so the gardening conditions can be challenging, to say the
least

Because light levels here aren't great in the spring, I've always
started my seedlings off under grow-lamps. Does anybody have any
experience of the new LED grow-lamps, or do most people use the usual
high-intensity bulbs or fluorescent lights?

Any advice or opinions will be gratefully received!

I found a 400w metal halide lamp at a sale a few years back and though
it's more expensive to run it's another world compared to my old grow
lamps. With the grow lamps the lights had to be so close to the plants
that variations in seedling hight messed things up and when plants got
bigger the lower leaves didn't get enough light. None of that with the
pot farm light. No more spindley tomatoes.