Starting Seedlings

[Guerilrow421]

So im planning to start an outside grow this year but I read that i should start the seedlings inside and my questions are the following,
-Can I use this kind of led lamp in the start:https://m2.ikea.com/ca/en/p/harte-led-work-lamp-black-silver-color-30266989/
-If not what type of lighting should I use
-Do I need to care about exaust

 

[Erick31876]

If your only using it to start seedlings, i would just get a cheap t5 florescent light or a few cfl's since youll only be using it for seedlings, i start mine with cfl's and never had a problem. And i dont thinl you will need an exhaust fan for smell reasons. They usually don't start smelling until they are well into veg.

 

[Guerilrow421]

If your only using it to start seedlings, i would just get a cheap t5 florescent light or a few cfl's since youll only be using it for seedlings, i start mine with cfl's and never had a problem. And i dont thinl you will need an exhaust fan for smell reasons. They usually don't start smelling until they are well into veg.

I already bought it months ago not for growing reasons and I was curious that this would do the work and thanks for the advice

 

[Fangthane]

If most of your growing will be outdoors, I guess you probably won't really need to know a whole lot about lighting, but I'll just point out a couple of issues with the lamp you're looking at.

Light color and wattage are probably the most useful and damning information provided. For the first stage of growth - the vegetative phase - 2700 Kelvin color temperature isn't very ideal. While it would "veg" a plant to some degree, it's far too high in red spectra to be an ideal vegging light. Something in the 5000+ Kelvin range would have the more blue spectra that are more optimal for vegetative growth. Also, you'll want to pay attention to wattage. 3 watts seems like it would be effectively useless for anything that wasn't extremely small and basically in physical contact with the light.

 

[Guerilrow421]

If most of your growing will be outdoors, I guess you probably won't really need to know a whole lot about lighting, but I'll just point out a couple of issues with the lamp you're looking at.
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Light color and wattage are probably the most useful and damning information provided. For the first stage of growth - the vegetative phase - 2700 Kelvin color temperature isn't very ideal. While it would "veg" a plant to some degree, it's far too high in red spectra to be an ideal vegging light. Something in the 5000+ Kelvin range would have the more blue spectra that are more optimal for vegetative growth. Also, you'll want to pay attention to wattage. 3 watts seems like it would be effectively useless for anything that wasn't extremely small and basically in physical contact with the light.

Thanks Dude it's really helped!

 

[BudBogart]

I definitely recommend just a regular incandescent light bulb or two over this mini led reading lamp. How many seeds?

 

[Guerilrow421]

I definitely recommend just a regular incandescent light bulb or two over this mini led reading lamp. How many seeds?

Prolly 4

 

[BudBogart]

Prolly 4

Then, yes, any regular 60 watt incandescent would be a better choice than the tiny led.
As others have said, using T5 florescent bulbs is a preferred method of seedling growing. Be sure that you learn about matching indoor lighting time to outdoor time before planting outdoors.