Barrina Plant Grow Lights, 4FT 5000K Full Spectrum Daylight White, 252W(6 x 42W, 1400W Equivalent), T8 LED Grow Light Strips, Growing Lamp Fixture, Plant Lights for Indoor Plants, Greenhouse, 6-Pack

If you were like me you are probably looking for simple, cheap, but effective grow lights.This is it, look no further! Stop pulling out your hair.I spent countless hours trying to find something cheaper, something better, something that only a clever person could find that wasn't this—but I just ended up with this. These are quite literally THE entry grow lights. So start here.- Don't bother with traditional LED, they aren't full spectrum like these "grow light" LED's are.- Don't get confused about all the blue, red, green waveforms. This is the one that you want, it's closest to the sun for budget lights that isn't pink, and gives you plenty of what you need from each. RGB tweaking and knowing which one you want for what is, highly niche stuff for people that weren't searching for plug-and-play that does not apply to majority of the population.- Sure, pink lights are great to have for plants. But nobody likes looking at them. Studies show people have a tendency to hide them away and they lower sexual arousal. You will hate owning them and anyone glancing through a window that has pink lights will assume "drug dealer".- Don't bother with fluorescent and putting them in old housing units, they don't work as well as LED and aren't "Full Spectrum" AKA "like the sun", which is what you want.- Fluorescent housing units are expensive unless you trash ones thrown out by someone upgrading to LED and require wiring. But these are plug and play and can be daisy-chained.- T8 > T5.- 42 watt (more power) is what you want; unless you don't care about peak efficiency with plants and your electricity is expensive. Then you want 20 watt (less power). Which is a tradeoff between cost and performance. Your plants won't be as deep a green, nor as crunchy, but it's not a huge difference. The plants won't get all of what they want but it will get you to seedling status so you can put them in your garden. Don't bother with 10 watt / T5 unless you're dirt poor.- 42 watt for most people is like $0.25/day, 20 watt is like $0.09/day.- Their customer support is great. I had some missing cables in the box I ordered and they set me straight right away. Very polite folks!- Plants sleep the same as you, remember people saying "8 hours is the ideal amount of sleep"? Same for plants. I do 16/8. That means, 16 hours lights ON, 8 hours lights OFF.Advanced DIY setup:- You want a 5-tier "Brightroom" metal shelf from Target. Chrome is more reflective than black. Cheapest, highest quality shelf you'll get for this. Fits the lights great.- These Stainless Steel trays (no plastic, easy to clean, last forever): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YWWXK7G They are 20" x 14" x 1" and they come in a two pack so $15-17 each. 1" depth is great for trays, better than deeper trays.- This digital timer for your lights: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Z3F8L4C (Nearpow digital timer) two pack so $10 each.- Attach the lights to a board that can be raised/lowered. Glue reflective mylar to the bottom side.- Use metal bobbins as tiny pulleys for the string and metal fly fishing rods to raise/lower the lights.- Make a mylar-covered box that goes around the shelf with airflow using two PC fans.- Attach water jugs and use capillary action / gravity wicks to bottom water the seedlings so you never have to do it.- For storage on top of the shelf, get "apple boxes" from your local grocery store for free. They fit perfectly on top and will store a ton of stuff in them.Lazy DIY setup:- Same Brightroom shelf.- "Adjustable rope hangers" to raise/lower lights.- Cheap plastic 1020 growing trays.- Same digital timer.- Budget: cheap string and/or hose clamps to hold the string to the sides of the shelf to hold the lights in their position. Use a ratchet or screwdriver to raise/lower them. (Psst, pennies are cheaper than washers)This post likely helped you so click the "helpful" button and pay it forward next time you do an insane amount of research on something so we don't collectively waste thousands of hours of time that could be spent growing plants that make the world a better place.-------P.S. Get your neighbors to start growing.Teach them Green Beans, Malabar Spinach, and Sweet Potatoes. These are highly nutritious, ridiculously easy, and you can give them endless seeds / cuttings and slips that they can plant and it's practically impossible to mess them up. And they can teach it to others as well.Many of these people never had the 'seed' planted in their mind that you did that made you get started. They need someone to do it, and you need it too, or all your knowledge will mean nothing if things get rough. It's not enough to know how to grow food, they need to know it too.

When searching for lighting to use with some seeds I was sowing indoors for the first time, I figured I would go the cheap route and get some T8 shop lights. Most of my research indicated that the shop lights needed to be real close to the seedlings (in my case, Salvia coccinea) for them to work.Along the way, I stumbled upon these Barrina T8 full spectrum 5000K grow lights. When purchased in a 6-pack, two of the Barrina T8 LED fixtures cost about the same as a single shop light fixture with two LED bulbs. So, I purchased these Barrina grow lights, giving me the ability to light up to three shelves in the future.Everything was working fine until I noticed the seedlings were growing faster and bigger than originally planned. I also had some seedlings with some miscolored leaf edges. A search indicated that this might be indicative of grow light burn from having the lights to close to the seedlings.So, I noticed that Barrina recommended 12-14" distance between the top of the seedlings and the lights. Others have stated, for heat-loving plants (which the Salvia are), that this distance can be 8-10".A quick measurement showed that the seedlings were about 3" away from the lights. Whoops! My guess is the intensity of the grow lights being that close pushed the seedlings too fast.I potted up the seedlings into 3.5" containers, while at the same time increasing the distance to the lights between 8-10" away. That stopped the leaf burn, and the color of the leaves look consistently green now. Hopefully, the lessons learned from this first time seed sower will help someone else.Other than my lack of understanding with using grow lights, everything else about them has been good. As some have indicated, the deflectors can be a bit of a pain to install, but with patience, they will slide on. Just don't force the deflectors on. They are thin enough to where I think it would be real easy to bend or break them.

I have ordered 3 sets of 6 lights from Barrina and they are excellent. Firstly, the customer service is fantastic. The first 2 orders were from here on Amazon, but my 3rd order I did on their website directly. On my 3rd order 1 of the 6 lights I ordered had a dead bulb. No worries though, I emailed them and Ella from customer service emailed me back within 24 hours with a replacement offer. She mailed me the replacement within 24 hours. Communication was bang on and I felt valued as a customer who had spent just under $200 bucks by this point. Customer service means everything to me.The lights are fantastic too! Super bright and really easy to hook up. I have 18 so far but will be getting more as I expand. I will continue to get these exact lights. My seedlings and plants are growing so fast its unreal. Great price too for the product. I really recommend Barrina, not only for a quality products but their customer service as well. A++ for this seller

At first I was kind of skeptical to get this "less expensive" led light for my microgreens, honestly I'm impressed, my little plants responded great, I did not regret getting them, I'm planning on the farm expansion and this is the lights I'm going to use, perfect choice without spending tons of money.

I have these set up for my seedlings. The issue is they’re too bright for dahlia and tomato seedlings. The leaves are burning. I have two lights per shelf and they’re 6-9 inches above the plants in trays but with 4 inch pots, they get too close to the sun and burn. Anyone else have this issue?