LED strips too much for seedlings?

Artificia1

Artificia1

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Searched the internet and didn't find anything specifically on this. I know they are powerful lights and usually you just use a T5 at the start, but would it be possible to dim them and hang them higher at the start or is it still too much?
 
skoomd

skoomd

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If you have a meanwell HLG driver, you can certainly dim your LEDs so they're not too strong for seedlings. And you can of course raise the strips up higher for seeds. I am starting 2 seeds under samsung LED strips right now actually. My light is heavy as fuck so I put it where it'll be for all of veg and flower since I dont want to raise/drop such a heavy light over my plants. I have 313w of strips 36" from my seedlings right now and all is golden :)

I prefer sprouting seeds under leds than CFLs because they provide the right amount of light all over the place instead of right under a single bulb. T5s are nice too, but if you start in a dome I find they can be too weak with the dome on and seedlings stretch.
 
Artificia1

Artificia1

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skoomd said:
If you have a meanwell HLG driver, you can certainly dim your LEDs so they're not too strong for seedlings. And you can of course raise the strips up higher for seeds. I am starting 2 seeds under samsung LED strips right now actually. My light is heavy as fuck so I put it where it'll be for all of veg and flower since I dont want to raise/drop such a heavy light over my plants. I have 313w of strips 36" from my seedlings right now and all is golden :)

I prefer sprouting seeds under leds than CFLs because they provide the right amount of light all over the place instead of right under a single bulb. T5s are nice too, but if you start in a dome I find they can be too weak with the dome on and seedlings stretch.
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Good to hear skoomd, t5's are pretty cheap but I would like to avoid them if I can. Thank you!
edit: clean build by the way
 
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