Question about using grow lights with adeniums and other plants. We have adenium desert rose plants in Austin, Texas. At this time of year we keep them inside as it frequently gets down to 40F at night. We are concerned that they are not getting enough sun. Would you advise a type of grow lights that works best with these plants. I tried to educate myself and came away not knowing what spectrum if best. Thanks for your help
Answer: Adenium Rose Company is not using any grow lights except for seed germination. Having said that we are in the process of building a vertical growing facility in North Georgia (Zone 6a to 7). We will be using 100% LED products. The grow light fixture will have true full spectrum. The grow lights units we are using will have adjustable light intensity, duration and green/red balance adjustment on the light fixture.
Grow Lights Basics LED’s
We have spent countless hours reading about grow lights, their specifications and quality of the LED’s. There is no one size fits all. The basic LED light mixes are full spectrum, bloom and vegetation LED. Then there are various generations of LED (generation1, 2 3 etc.). Some cost a fortune and cheap. Some LED fixtures have adjustable intensity settings, red/blue adjustments, timers and much more.
The units we are using will have adjustable light intensity, duration and bloom/vegetation balance adjustment on the light fixture. They will have UV and IR light too. The uMol spread will controlled by making by light spacing.
Our vertical growing area will consist of units with 4′ x 4′ shelving units. Each unit shelf spacing will be between 30″ to 48″. The grow lights fixtures will be on a pulley system to give the ability to adjust the distance between the plant and light.
Once we get a better handle on the grow lights products used and time using them we will create several blog posts but that will be towards the 2nd half of 2020.
Are those pod on my desert rose seed pods and if so can I grow plants from them!
Need an image please. Adenium seeds pods are usually very long oblong pods most of the time they come in twin pairs opposite each other.
How much of umol/m²/sec does it have to be and what kinds of spectrums does it have to be for the seedling of Adeniums when the seedlings are germinating, when they are in the liners after germination and when they are in 3″ pots??? Can you share this information please?
We are still learning about grow lights. We will not finish testing them until after summer. I would recommend umol between 600 – 900 at this time but we are not experts on grow ligths.
I see, but what kind of medium are you going to use for rising seedlings? Coco peat + vermiculite? Or maybe pine bark? What is the best medium to get thick caudex from the beginning?
We do not use pine bark at all for adeniums/succulents/cactus plants. Propagation seed mix is mostly coir – NO PEAT what so ever because it will crust the soil. You can use 100% coir for seedlings.
Hi, how is it going with the light? Have you become more proficient with it?) What ppfd would you recommend for germination, 2-3 month old plants, 4-9 month old plant?
And how do you water plants? Because I guess the light is very close to plants and so there is no way to water it from above wby hand.
Hi:
At EpicGrower (sister company) located in the north Georgia mountains they use Spider farmer and mars-hydro LED grow lights. They are not growing adeniums or plants offered from our Miami location. They are growing hoyas, green tea, goji berry, dwarf flamboyant, and other tropical plants under the lights and they are doing great! They are still learning the ropes on how many hours (all automatic on timers) and watering (automatic watering using capillary mats and drip watering). The lights are not too close to the plants (average 18″ above them).