If you want one clip-on grow light that handles a single potted plant without looking like lab equipment, the SANSI 5W pot clip is the one I keep recommending: it clamps straight to a rim, throws 4000K full-spectrum white light from a ceramic LED, and runs on a 3, 6, or 12 hour repeating timer. … Read more
The best grow light under 200 dollars for most indoor growers is the Spider Farmer SF1000, a 100W fanless panel that covers a 2×2 or 3×3 footprint with a 660nm red channel and a dimming knob. Below it sit a dimmable 70W panel for smaller tents, a linkable strip set for plant shelves, and a … Read more
The best grow lights for microgreens in are full-spectrum white LED fixtures rated between 5500K and 6500K, delivering roughly 20 watts and 2000 lumens for every 10×20 inch tray you hang above. That single sentence is the whole buying decision. Everything else is mounting, scheduling and how much light you are willing to pay to … Read more
Most kitchens have a window, a counter, and at least one herb pot that is slowly dying in the corner. The best grow lights for herbs in kitchens solve a small, unglamorous problem: keeping culinary herbs alive when your natural light is weak, seasonal, or pointed the wrong way. I spent six weeks running eight … Read more
Finding the best grow light bars for shelves is harder than it looks, because shelf setups break almost every rule that grow light shopping guides assume. There is no 2×4 tent to fill, no room to hang a fixture from the ceiling, and shelves are usually only 10 to 18 inches apart, so a bar … Read more
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
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
