Growing Succulents and Cacti with LED Grow Lights
KP Devlin
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Comments (124)Hi everyone, wasn't sure I was going to be able to do this swap. Have been sick but am much better. Add my name to the list. Haves: white and purple bleeding heart vine, hidden ginger, white butterfly ginger, pine cone ginger, unknown variegated ginger, bengal tiger canna, yellow/orange canna, black eyed susie vine, red spider lilies, red and yellow crown of thorns cuttings, red/coral shrimp plant, yellow shrimp plant, prayer plant, swiss cheese plant, green and white wandering jew, kitten ear jew, purple and gray jew, green wandering jew, swedish ivy, goldfish plant, night blooming cactus, rick rack cactus, mother of thousands, hen and chicks green, pony tail palm, texas star hibiscus, luna blush hibiscus, aloe vera, tricolor sedum, mother in law tongue, mexican petunia, red candy apple iceplant, elephant sedum, coral reef sedum, pink pursalane, double yellow/pink pursalane, spiral staircase sedum, variegated tropical hibiscus, kerria japonica rose double yellow, red/coral honeysuckle cuttings, silver squill, cast iron plant, drummonds pink phlox, christmas cheer sedum, pink abelia cuttings, curly leaf begonia, different unnamed begonias, blue hydrangea, old cactus (makes yellow flower), unnamed sedum and succelents, red hot poker lily Wants: yellow spider lily, variegated candy apple ice plant, cajun hibiscus, mosquito plant, variegated mosquito plant, mandarin plant, pink lily of the valley, walking iris, pineapple lily other that white, desert rose, yellow butterfly bush, sedums and succelents I don't have, blood lily, hoyas, variegated lipstick plant, begonias I don't have...See MoreNeed help growing cacti/succulents from seeds
Comments (43)If you have no mold than there's no need to uncover yet. By about 2-3 month mark is when I uncover. It honestly just depends on what's going on in the container. My Ferocactus are uncovered now. Along with a couple other containers that had mold growing. As soon as I uncover the mold stops. I just have to remember to keep moist everyday. Instead of having them covered and not having to worry about them as much. I still have three covered. I will uncover those last three in a month or so. I don't like to keep them covered longer than three months because I feel like they start to need air circulation. Everybody does it different I'm sure. Whatever works:). As long as you keep them moist with some filtered light, they should be fine. All my seedlings are in a north west frosted bathroom window. This would never be enough light for most mature cactus, but the seedlings don't need direct sun. You can see the window in the above pic. That's how much light they get till about 3:30-4:00pm then as the sun is going down they get some sun. I don't know if you've seen this YouTube video, but this guy is germinating Astro seeds. I get the vibe he doesn't keep them covered long at all, but you can see he keeps them very moist because once you uncover the water evaporates pretty quickly:). Video:)...See MoreIs this LED grow light ok for my succulent?
Comments (8)The Bl'urple (short for bloomin' purple) LED grow lights are excellent for anything you want to promote blooming/blossoming. I think the primary market for those is the "medical flowers" and "recreational flowers" growers. For something you don't want to bloom a lot, a plain white light (LED or CFL or fluorescent tubes) work as well or better than the bl'urple lights. That's especially true for annual leafy herbs like basil and cilantro. Those will bolt quickly under the bl'urple "LED grow lights." For white lights of any kind, a higher "CRI" (color rendering index) is better. Your plants will not just look better under high CRI lighting, the spectrum is more even and they will grow better. This past winter, in my basement garden, I also tried some blue/white "aquarium lights." Those did fairly well for my leafy herbs and a few other non-blooming plants I had under them. White LED bulbs/tubes were so much more economical, and the growth under the "LED aquarium lights" wasn't significantly better than under good white LED lights. Brighter is always better. You'll never find a light that is even close to natural sunlight. Find a sunny spot on the floor at mid day, hold your hand out so you can see your shadow on the floor. Point one of your lights at the shadow of your hand and turn it on (about the distance from the floor that you'd place it from your plants). If your shadow is still visible, the light isn't as bright as natural sunlight....See MoreNew AeroGrow Wtih LED lights.To Grow AV Babies?
Comments (10)Sorry, been busy with Christmas. I just kept searching the internet for blogs of many different people, putting in keywords, like aerogarden, (couldn't find as much as I thought I would) african violets in aerogardens, etc. Alot of them started growing them and posted pictures, but didn't follow through and tell you how it was going a few months later or whatever. Most just said the leaves failed. One lady's husband built her a homemade one, big flat of growing spaces with holes, water underneath, pumps, aeration, LED grow lights panel, etc. She didn't report alot of success either. I can't remember the blogger now, and she dwindled off and stopped writing too. I seem to remember she mainly went with other plants. I think my biggest worry, I guess, is there isn't much space. I want to grow more than a few leaves. Lol. But we can start out small and see how it goes. Please let me know how it goes for you. In theory, it should be so much quicker, no waiting forever for those little mouse ears. Ha! I think, if you cut the grow sponge like you said, then even score it some for roots to be able to break out the sides easier might help. I was thinking you'd have to plant it about the time the plantlets start showing so they get light, but they grow under water if started in a glass, but they do get light. Quite a dilemma to think about, as you said the light is the main factor in their growing so quickly. The Aerogrow tries to keep that light away from the water to keep algae down, so it sure won't reach the plantlets Hmmmm......See MoreKP Devlin
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