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Why Use a Grow Tent for Indoor Growing? Is It Necessary?

Grow tents come in plenty of shapes and sizes. They are being marketed to indoor growers with claims ranging from "good to have" to "a necessity". How important are they,...
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LED Grow Light & Grow Room Glasses

LED Grow Light & Grow Room Glasses

Grow Room Glasses        Have you started, or are you looking to start growing plants indoors? If your plan is to grow any type of high-light plant like...
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LED Grow Lamps & Light Terms: PPFD (PAR) & Light Footprint Maps

LED Grow Lamps & Light Terms: PPFD (PAR) & Light Footprint Maps

In our previous article on PAR, PPFD, and PPF, we talked in short about PPFD (sometimes the term "PAR" is used incorrectly when referring to PPFD) and defined it as...
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LED Grow Light Terms: PAR, PPFD, PPF (introduction)

LED Grow Light Terms: PAR, PPFD, PPF (introduction)

This is an introductory article for three commonly used and important LED grow light terms. We circle back to our video on PAR, PPFD, and PPF with this article and...
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Tent size for growing using led grow light indoors

Grow Tent Size for Indoor Growing of Cannabis, Vegetables, and Herbs

Indoor growers, today we’d like to talk about grow tents and grow spaces. If you’re growing indoors or are considering growing indoors, doing so in either a tent or a...
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PPFD Test of Household Bulbs, Ikea 10W Grow Bulb & T5 CFL (pt 2)

PPFD Test of Household Bulbs, Ikea 10W Grow Bulb & T5 CFL (pt 2)

PPFD Test of Household Bulbs, Ikea 10W Grow Bulb, and T5 (28W) CFL Fixture We’re back again with another, more thorough, household bulb test. We’re testing 2.2W, 5.7W, 10W (Ikea PAR30...
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Instructions: How to Hang & Setup an LED Grow Light

Instructions: How to Hang & Setup an LED Grow Light

Installing, setting up and hanging an LED grow light and getting the distance right A possibly obvious topic to some, but eye-opening to others. We’ve seen all types of unique...
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Sunlight PPFD Measured Over An Afternoon

Sunlight PPFD Measured Over An Afternoon

How intense is the sunlight over the course of an afternoon? What’s the sun’s PPFD (µmol/m2/s) level? Our sun is the main light source for the vast majority of plants...
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CFL vs LED vs Ikea Grow Light Bulb - Grow Light Test (PPFD & footprint) for Indoor Growing

CFL vs LED vs Ikea Grow Light Bulb - Grow Light Test (PPFD & footprint) for Indoor Growing

Common CFL and LED household bulbs (and IKEA 10W grow bulb) PPFD & footprint tested. How well suitable are they for growing plants indoors? Fellow growers. We see many of...
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PPFD and photoperiod gives DLI

DLI (Daily Light Integral) Chart - Understand your plants' PPFD & photoperiod requirements

How intense light (PPFD) to expose various species to and for how long.Light intensity, or rather, how densely packed light is with photons, is measured in micromoles per meter squared...
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Beginners Guide To Buying LED Grow Lights ($100-200)

Beginners Guide To Buying LED Grow Lights ($100-200)

How To Find the Right Indoor Light on Amazon, Ebay, and WalmartIt's a real jungle out there. There are just pages and pages with LED grow lights of various shapes,...
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Grow Herbs & Vegetables

Growing Tomatoes Indoors Time Lapse: From Seed to Fruit

Growing Tomatoes Indoors Time Lapse: From Seed to Fruit

How to Grow A Tomato Plant Indoors with LED Bulbs We set out on an experiment with the objective: grow tomatoes indoors as simply as possible. Without investing in massive...
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Start an Indoor Vegetable Garden: Guide, Ideas, and Tips for Beginners

Start an Indoor Vegetable Garden: Guide, Ideas, and Tips for Beginners

How To Start, Develop, and Grow an Indoor Vegetable or Herb Garden - Seed To Harvest Growing and maintaining an indoor garden is easy, fun, rewarding, and soothing. Creating life,...
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Grow Marijuana

Grow Weed Indoors: Guide for beginners to cultivate cannabis

Grow Weed Indoors: Guide for beginners to cultivate cannabis

How to grow marijuana indoors, a beginner's guide. We at LEDTonic love to create green life, no matter the plant species. Previously we’ve written an indoor vegetable growing guide, this...
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