Barrina T5 Grow Lights for Indoor Plants, Full Spectrum LED Grow Light, 2FT 80W (8 x 10W), Plant Lamp for Indoor Growing, Seed Starting, Pinkish White, 8-Pack

The media could not be loaded. Really great.Update on the cherry tomatoes and a fresno chili mentioned below. It’s November if the following year today. I’m transitioning the mature plants out for new starts. Indoor hydrogarden tomato yield was 9 lbs. (predominantly Gold Nugget). Fresno chili yield was 3 lbs. The flowering beauty and delicious fun of plucking vine ripe freshies right from the kitchen all year: immeasurable.Microgreens are a cinch, really flourish fast, 10 varieties so far.Setup details:• Smaller pantry shelves: 10 x10 no hole tray with 4 - 5x5 inserts with holes on AC Infinity seedling mat set on ‘low.’ Microgreen shelves are set 10 inches apart making the Barrina lights about 6-8 inches away from tray tops when mounted above. These shelves are mounted with 4 - 12 inch Barrina T5 strips per shelf.• Larger dining hutch shelves: 2 to 5 10 x 20 Bootstrap Farmer trays with no holes inset with trays with holes (either 10 x 20, or 10 x 10 or 5 x 5 - possible to mix and match like a 10 x 10 and 4 - 5 x 5 in one 10 x 20 bottom tray). Did I make that confusing? I’m just saying the trays have insert configurations to grow more varieties in one 10 x 20 tray. These shelves have 8 Barrina 24 inch T5 LED lights chained together on a timer 15 inches from the shelf below. The grow capacity is 5 - 10 x 20 trays. I often do 2 or 4 depending. I increase the height of this 1890s Edwardian built in shelf by adding an upside down tray below them - if necessary. It’s scalable to many varieties and easy to grow beyond true leaf phase for pea shoots and chard and beet greens (any I like slightly more mature than ‘micro’).Deep Water Culture, indoor: I’m at early flowering phase for my first DWC déterminant tomatoes and chili pepper indoor grow from heirloom seeds.Setup detail: Two compact 10" x 11" 3 gallon DWC units with air stones contain 1 Tiny Tim (plus 3 new clones), a Cherry Maskotka and a Gold Nugget tomato plus one Fresno chili pepper. That’s 4 plant sites and 3 baby clones in a possible 10 sites (for spacing purposes) on a chrome ‘ton’ rack in my kitchen pantry!I haven’t done anything difficult - just monitor nutrient level and pH in DWC and a dilute colloidal PureCropI foliar spray (corn oil, soy oil, vanillin, soap, glycerin, citric acid, guar gum) to prevent fungus or pests. Then, I added 2 additional Barrina T5 24" LED light strips in 2 phases as the plants entered a booming late vegetative phase and this promising early flowering phase. That’s 4 Barrina 24 inch T5 strips horizontally above and 4 vertically on the support posts to reach more vegetation below the canopy without ‘burning’ the plants. I estimated 40 watts of T5 per square foot of actual plant grow space within this rectangle shelf ‘grow area.’ That’s 8 x 10 watt T5 LED 24" strip lights. The lights all connect together on 1 convenient timer plug (16 hours on, 8 hours off). I can manually switch off any if I notice light intensity problems - but they seem to thrive so far in these stages. They’re so easy to connect several in or manually switch off.The chrome rack shelf they’re mounted to is set at counter height 36" from the floor. The lower shelf is the lowest bracket just above the casters that the DWC units and air stone compressor are on. This leaves a few inches below the buckets to ‘drain’ reservoir water or remove fallen leaves below the units. It’s possible to add grow fabric or screening to this rack (but I haven’t yet). My pet isn’t interested in tomatoes and pests are few indoors. A few utility hooks and the racks themselves with a soft plant tie fabric have made support and cord management a cinch. I may add a lower T5 LED strip because one of these tomato varieties, Maskotka, is a dwarf trailing determinate and has flowering branches that drop below the DWC unit’s top. It seems very happy as is though. Maskotka flowered in impressive whorls just after Tiny Tim. The Tiny Tim is blooming with a less prolific but steady regularity, not all at once. Tim isn’t actually ‘tiny’ - though smaller than indeterminate varieties, it goes anywhere light is and vegetation is surprising, reaches upward mostly. Gold Nugget is an ‘in-between’ variety, it will trail toward light, but also reach upward., prolific, but a little slower on blooms. The flowers are just beginning, but buds are visible - just tiny and springing all over the end of branch nodes. This means placement is: Tiny Tim toward the back inner corner for support and some room to sprawl toward the shelf center and forward Gold Nugget to the opposite side - the back outside corner for upward support and trailing space toward the side and Maskotka toward the front for maximum trailing space. Fresno chili is a reasonable size, planted toward an outside corner in the second unit, it grows bushy and upward - it luvs the light, but can tolerate a little less intensity as well as a slightly different nutrient PPM and pH condition to the tomatoes, although these can grow together well being in range with each other. Fresno chilies just required space away from all the tomato canopies and trailing that would otherwise shade it. It’s in the second DWC with clones from the tomatoes (being small they generally require less intense nutrient PPM and light PAR closer to the Fresno levels with increased humidity in proximity to more developed plants). I haven’t ‘pruned’ these determinate varieties, but I did remove any funky leaves and ‘trained’ a few lower and into supports. The 3 shortened stems became the clones. Apparently the tomatoes liked this trim of the leggy tops growing past the ‘grow light shelf zone’ because flowering increased on lower branches after that snipping, dipping in root hormone and the cloning of those cuttings seems magically fast. They’re small but I see flower buds on them. I just don’t know where I’ll put them yet, yikes, lol. It’s nice to have these clones for a tomato plant ‘staggering’ - longer determinate tomato harvest. I luv all these varieties for different reasons from color to flavor to ease of cultivation for indoor hydroponics.I just mean, who knew all of this extremely long and meandering review is possible indoors, in a kitchen, in the city, by a newbie with these Barrina T5 LED lights. How great is that!?I have 2 small ebb and flow units for herbs and lettuces, but those have their own light panels and pump. I’m happy to have them as a nursery for the DWC with Barrina setup or Kratky offshoots.I’m very happy with my Barrina T5 LED purchases so far and give them high recommends.2 sets of 8 T5 24 inch1 set of 8 T5 12 inchI did add:Stainless utensil hooks from IKEA and a soft tie material for support (since trailing tomatoes like Maskotka are very ‘trail-y’ and fruits on all varieties get heavy later).I also purchased several female to female LED 3 prong plug connectors so that I could extend the 4 vertical pole lights from the 4 horizontal lights above on one plug.Add one small circulation fan, a few continuous spray misters for foliar applications, 3 seedling heat mats for microgreens and easy germination, two timers for auto on/off, a set of pipettes for easy nutrient measuring/mixing, a pH and EC meter, the 2 DWC units from Lawnful, nutrients from TPS (also tried Humbolt’s Secret - both seem aces), a great pair of nippers. a box of compressed coco coir (and some grow mats), a swell ergonomic 1 gallon watering can with targeted spout, the Bootstrap Farmer trays and True Leaf Market seeds. End list. Hee.I think these lights and indoor setups are low maintenance and attractive. I wanted to commandeer my laundry/utility room as a grow room, but I’m enjoying seeing the plants in the kitchen and dining areas - tough call. Lol. Currently, this produces a lot of produce and culinary herbs. Enough for a small family to enjoy - plus a few neighbors and several catnip and oat grass loving pets. My grocery bill has decreased by 1/3rd, so everything has paid for itself already and I haven’t even harvested the tomatoes and Fresno chilies (which are rarely available here recently) yet.There’s no way to quantify the enjoyment and stress reduction. It’s just Hundo P fulfilling and miles of great feeling more food secure with increased nutrition. And interesting, so interesting! I wish we had this in school curricula - kids just thrill on these projects and learn valuable life skills, respect for food and themselves.Overall, high recommends on Barrina T5 from me.I got the white (full spectrum leaning pink but not pink) ones. Giggle.Granted, I don’t have a lot to compare them to. I’m a beginner and just started these urban indoor farming projects in November 2022 to present. It’s exceeding expectations so far. It’s a lifestyle now. I couldn’t be happier - however newbie I am.Thanks for reading! I hope this helps, everything works out to set fruit and getting through this LED grow light saga isn’t as boring as I suspect. Lol. Happy sowing and growing!

I've had another set of this brands grow lights for over a year now, and I found myself constantly putting plants in high shelves to reach that light. Because in regards to growth, these things rock. So it recently dawned on me I could get some more to put in the bottoms of the shelves to reach the plants below. (They are very bright, but the shelves are blocking half the light, so stuff down low wasn't getting a lot of light.) I can't wait to see the other plants start to finally start to flourish. (I'm also glad I got white this time. The pink lights are overwhelmingly pink)If you're not screwing directly into a shelf, but say, the ceiling, mounting them is as easy as can be. They also come with connectors to make them 2 feet long instead of 1. I used the sticky pads they gave on my first set of lights for one I should have mounted to the shelf (and now have) and honestly, it took a shocking amount of time for it to start falling. So using them to mount to a smooth surface is hit or miss. They will NOT work on walls. Your only real limit is where your plugs are.Included image demonstrates the brightness level, and also shows the difference between the pink and white lights. (Only got pink cause the white case didn't come in white on the 2 foot rods) Image was taken at night.And as proof they are great for plant growth, I have a fishbone cactus I purchased before I ever had plant lights. Once I had the lights it started growing a ton but everything that came out looked like sticks. When I moved it into a shelf, everything fattened up and took on the classic fishbone shape. Plants love these lights and I can't recommend them enough.

I have an older adjustable, four level plant rack with 2' fluorescent grow bulbs. In looking for replacement bulbs, I found a current price of $22 per fluorescent bulb. As an easy, more cost-effective alternative, I have found this product. The needed eight bulbs worked out to $7.50 per LED fixture.The LED bulbs would not fit/be compatible with the fluorescent fixtures, but I was able to flip those fixtures upside down and affix the LED strips to the top (now bottom) of the fixtures. I then reinstalled the upside-down fixtures and wired the eight LEDs in a daisy chain, with the included wiring.Everything works beautifully and I was able to update/upgrade my plant stand for a total of $60. I don't know how long these LEDs will last, but they are highly rated and I'm thinking of ordering another eight-pack, as spares.

I grow microgreens regularly and also start my vegetables indoors. I have bought several different lights over the years and they managed to keep everything alive but not thriving. This year I put together 3 different shelving units to accommodate all my plants and bought the Barrina sets because they looked easy to assemble on my own. The lights are so simple to put together and mount. I LOVE that I can hook them all together but then switch off individual lights if I need to.I am happy to report that all my plants are doing amazingly well. These lights kept my seedlings from getting "leggy" and grew them out to a transplant size in record time. I'm also finding the hardening-off process is going much better than in years past. I think it may be due to the strength of these lights and the plants being more acclimated to the proper light to begin with.I can't detect any noise from the lights and they don't get hot. There has been no "bump" to my electric bill with 3 full shelving units running. I think they were on the expensive side but well worth the money for all the awesome features they provide. There were even extra "plug" cords if you weren't stringing them all together. I think the set is well thought out and provides several different options for hanging, attaching, and running. I'm impressed!