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Isherwood  ·  3470 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 22, 2015

Is it aesthetic or practical?

The ones I've seen have mostly been beauty plants, which is fine, but I've been eyeing up something like it for growing spices in the kitchen.





kleinbl00  ·  3470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This one will be purely aesthetic. While it's possible we may try and throw some herbs in there, the overwhelming majority of herbs are high light plants. At best I'll have a skylight to sit under. This is why the "test" - this thing is actually in a totally dark hallway being hit with some $11 Amazon LEDs which I'm evaluating with a PAR meter. Unfortunately it's designed for golf courses so "2-50 PAR" is one LED.

On the plus side, I can hit at least 2 PAR. On the minus side, more than 50 PAR (which is where you cease to be a "low light" plant) requires about 11W of LEDs to be less than two feet away from the plants, which will not look good.

Isherwood  ·  3470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I hadn't even thought about that. We grow on the window sill now without issue, but the wall would move to the interior. I'll put that one on the back burner for now, but I'm interested in a project recap once you get the final version up.