Don't need much light for clones.
Put the clone trays on the bottom shelf on a heat mat. Or get rid of the shelf unit keep the t-5's on and toss the the clone trays on the floor on heat mats.
Yes I keep the room 80 °F 55% humidity and that doesn't matter. I either got scammed or these lights suck.
Dude I swear I put 4 of these strips on 1 rack 6 inches from the plants and they weren't growing they were like "stacking nodes" if that makes sense. They were growing like runts and super unhealthy with slow stubby roots where with T5 I'm getting fish scales.. One clone even did re-veg where it self-topped under those LEDs. I've since had to put a 2 bulb T5 inbetween the LEDs just to get the clones to push roots and not have wacky plants.
Maybe thats the spirit LUXX had when they designed these.
Probably.... to put it in perspective.... I just started some new clones yesterday under my flower room lights and I stuck some paper towel on top of the dome to block the light. Too much light promotes top growth when you want root growth. Also make sure you have a dark period.
Wow... that'd basically blue.... maybe the red leds subsadise that temp in a way.
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With the clone strips they only used 36 watts between the 2 strip so 18 each and the spectrum is equivalent to 9000k or Kelvin witch daylight is usually represented as 6500k so 9000k is really blue and isn't made to grow that's why they aren't doing much that spectrum is geared only for one thing, rooting seedlings and clones in rockwool. All it is would be morning spec
Probably not the best light chosen. But to be honest the problem is almost never about the equipment, it's about the grower.
Well shit... It does seem that way, when we use T5 the results are beautiful. I use LED (4 x Growers Choice ROI-720) in my main VEG room that picture in my post is my clone nursery if you will. I'm plain pissed off honestly its just a big waste of time and they hyped up those LED strips for weeks maybe even months prior to release.
