Growing with household LED bulbs?

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rollitupupf

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Noob grower here.

Ive read a lot of conflicting stuff about growing with household LED bulbs. No ££ to buy a proper grow light. Is it possible?

I have a whole bunch of bulbs with e27 sockets here:
- 3x 6500k day light LED bulb (1320 lumen / 100w equivalent)
- 4x 4000k cool white LED bulb (75w equivalent)
- 3x 2600k warm white LED bulb (1320 lumen / 100w equivalent)
- 6x 2600k warm white LED bulb (75w equivalent)
- 1x 24w COB 3000k LED bulb
- 8x blurpie LED cheap grow light bulbs ("10w" advertised, 106* 2835SMD LEDs, 86Red + 20Blue, plastic body)
- 2x blurpie LED cheap grow light bulbs ("28w" advertised, 28* 28SMD LEDs, 15Red+ 7Blue+ 4 White+ 1 IR+ 1 UV, aluminium body)
- 1x 6500k day light 20-25w CFL
- 2x 2700k warm white 25w CFLs

I also have these:
- 1x 25w UVB Reptile CFL
- 1x 4.5v Blacklight LED torch bulb + adapter
- 10m of 12v 5050 LED light strip + adapter (not sure if RGB or RGBw)

I want to save on energy where poss, so planning to use a combination of everything, instead of just CFLs. I wanted to use as much LEDs as poss with as little CFLs as poss.

My grow space for veg is a well ventilated PC case; but im going to move into a grow tent when it gets too big.

Im growing RQS Quick One autos and planning to keep it short with LST, and growing using Coco/perlite 5050 using canna coco, rhizo, zyme, boost, seaweed, magnesium silicate.
 
If they have plastic domes, pop them off. You can get adapters that plug into an outlet and turn it into a light socket. Turn your old power strips into little grow lights.
 
Kush Inc. said:
It's very possible to grow good weed with household LED's. I'd ditch those CFL's.
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thank you - ive got space to fit 12 lights in there. its cold where I am so was thinking to put 1x cfl in there just for heat if anything. or would that be a waste of socket

JonathanT said:
If they have plastic domes, pop them off. You can get adapters that plug into an outlet and turn it into a light socket. Turn your old power strips into little grow lights.
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i read somewhere its best to leave the diffusers on if you need it to cover a wide area, cause otherwise the beam angle is really narrow - is that true?

ive got the socket to plug adapters, just going to fit em with some lower amp fuses, ive got these adapters aswell that make 1 socket into three, as the bulbs are low wattage hopefully its not a problem

oh yeah ive got 2 of these bendy adapters too, its like a bendable pipe with a e27 socket on the end. very nice
 
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