is a, 18W Phillips genie, sufficient artificial light for indoor growing of plants?
I have 3 African tree seedlings in pots, Acacia Galpinii, to be exact. I want to make bonsais out of them but I live in Holland and do not have enough natural light in the house. They need to be outside actually but our climate is to cold for this kind of tree, so I went looking for grow lights and the best I could find was energy saving lamps that emit 100W of light using 18W of energy. I do not know if it would be enough to sustain the plants through the winter and do I need more than 3 of these laps.
Not likely.
The sun is giving them 1000Watts and that is what they are aiming for as a ‘full meal’ for the plants.
If you are only getting 18Watts of energy in I can’t see how you get 100Watts out as you can’t make energy from nothing. However, even assuming 100 Watts that is going to be pretty low.
I personally tried something like what you are doing here in Canada with a Mango tree from the Philippines. I used 3 x 75Watt grow lights. It was a very unhappy mango tree, it did grow–sort of.
It grew very spindly and seemed to be ‘reaching’ for the light as it wasn’t enough so it ended up stretched and unattractive.
It is not energy efficient, but hydroponic grow lights are going to be your best choice for a healthy tree (metal halide type)
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Another guide to wiring using a Chinese Juniper
Very hard to find bonsai stock
A visit to the mountains to seek bonsai shaping inspiration from full size trees, and a view of one “natural bonsai” as well. I am sorry for the poor sound quality, but we were working with the camera’s built-in mic and it was very windy up there. This is actually a re-edit of a video I uploaded and deleted, due to an editing problem with the original.
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