I bought an orchid for my wife and she loved it. Unfortunately it died within a month. I found perfect place but obviously not enough light since the next two lived about a month.
I put some regular daylight led strips underneath a wall hung television to illuminate it, so far a week or so things look good.
Wanting to know if anyone has had any luck with led strips for growing house plants(orchids). Found some for mushroom growing but not sure of lighting requirements for either. Also i dont want to join a orchid forum to find out, lol.
I’ve had this one almost 2 years and it’s opening up on it’s 4th flower cycle. It’s 12" under an HLG Diable200 with a sheet of shelf liner in between as a diffuser. They only need about 350ppf. I feed it runoff (i feed my cannabi with Jacks in coco) diluted about to about 1/4 with distilled every couple/few weeks and spritz it every day with plain water.
I use to buy them for my wife to take to work, but she’d come home with empty pots after a couple of weeks from neglect. I have had the last 2 I bought her since like October '22…
I water with ice cubes that I freeze with a micro amount of nutrients. Mine stays outside on the porch, but winters are spent inside under a t5 florescent grow bulb.
Edit: A 3000-4000 Kelvin strip would work fine
@Budbrother, thats a good looking plant, hoping if i find the right light strips to accomidate where my wife likes it, we are going to the orchid shop this weekend. That was just something i bought at grocery store for 20 bucks
So i actually did join a forum for orchids and my undetstanding is this type is a low light plant that will live under most any full spectrum bulb within the range of 5000k and 7000k range and the intensity isnt as important as time, suggested time 12 to 16 hours daily. Maybe problem solved.
All this talk about lighting for my girls and trying to fill time waiting to start next grow, now im just trying to keep an orchid alive until i can start my next grow
