Ron Kirk 
The best grow lights for succulents are full-spectrum white LED lights in the 5000K-6500K range, hung 6-12 inches above the canopy and run 12-14 hours a day. That single sentence answers most of what a new succulent owner needs, and everything else in this guide is the detail behind it. I have run shelves of … Read more
Picking the right grow light is the single decision that determines whether your vegetables thrive or stretch. I grew leafy greens, herbs and fruiting crops under a rotating lineup of fixtures for this roundup, measuring output, heat and coverage in a 4×2 foot shelving setup, a walk-in closet and a 2×4 tent. What follows is … Read more
Seedlings need far less light than a full grown plant, and almost every light we tested for this roundup was bright enough to scorch them. The best LED grow lights for seedlings sit in a narrow band: roughly 200 to 400 PPFD, close mounting height, cool running, and a timer so you stop forgetting to … Read more
Every October my fiddle leaf fig drops two leaves and leans hard toward the window, and every year I buy a grow light to fix it. This year I stopped guessing. I ran ten of the most-reviewed indoor grow fixtures through the same routine over six weeks: two hours a day on a marked shelf, … Read more
If you have ever finished a session of practice bent over picking golf balls out of the net one at a time, you already understand the appeal of a ball machine. The best ball machines under 2000 dollars of budget are not the launchers that fling balls at 100 mph for tour players. They are … Read more
A portable tennis ball machine grips two or three balls with counter-rotating wheels and fires them at a set speed, spin and feed rate, so players and coaches can run drills without a hitting partner. Club-grade portable models run on a rechargeable battery, hold roughly 60 to 150 balls, and weigh from about 19 lb … Read more
Most players don’t plateau because they lack reps. They plateau because their reps are random, unstructured, and dependent on whoever happens to show up that day. A ball machine fixes that problem, and the right one turns dead court time into the single most repeatable training tool in the sport. I spent six weeks comparing … Read more
Short answer: the LOBSTER Sports Elite Tennis Ball Machine is the best tennis ball machine for solo practice right now, because it pairs a 10-80 MPH speed range with a hopper that holds up to 150 balls and a 4-6 hour battery, so a full solo session runs without a single feed interruption. We spent … Read more
A table tennis conversion top is a removable playing surface, usually 9 to 19 millimeters of MDF or engineered wood, that rests on a pool table and turns it into a regulation-size ping pong table in about five minutes. If you own a billiard table and want a second game without giving up floor space, … Read more
Finding the best table tennis robots for solo practice came down to one stubborn question: which machine gives you enough honest repetition without wrecking your technique? I spent weeks working through nine of them, timing feeds, watching where balls actually landed, and reading long-ownership reports from players who had already lived with the plastic and … Read more
