The Light Your Plants REALLY Get Will Shock You
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to all: from a Planterina video, get your peace lily’s under LED’s for larger leaves! It really works! 😊
Measuring light I believe is super important. Even just to understand what your numbers are for plants doing well in your house. I’ve been big to measuring light over this past year to gain that better understanding.
My BIG ah ha moment and thing I’d suggest is: ditch the light meter. It measures light WE see (Lux is great for photography). We really need to us a PAR meter. (You can use your phone with an app) PPFD is the real info you need. It’s the measure of the light plants can use to photosynthesis. I think you may be as surprised as I was that Lux/foot candles do not translate to PPFD.
Personal example, my alocasia were struggling on a table that got light from windows on all sides. Literally neat the middle of my living room. Light meter read >1100 fc at noon in the early spring. Excellent I thought! Nope! Since the neatest windows were at least 6’ away, when I measured ppfd, I was lucky to get 35. What the plants see, it was actually on the bottom end of low light. Measuring even 2’ closer to window gave them 4x the ppfd. The fc measurement change was insignificant.
I’d love to see your results measuring the same with both meter types and if the numbers translate for you.
Making macrame hangers is quite easy and way cheaper that buying them. I have 300m of macrame string and some wooden rings/ beads (~100 pieces) and it cost me ~20€. I recently made a 3 tiered hanger for my ferns, which isn't really something I can buy in the size I needed. And making the hangers is great for people who can't keep their hands still.
Definitely!
I just coded for myself an app, that measures lux, because I wanted to know how much light does my plants get 😄 There are lots of apps in app stores, but I don't like adds and I don't trust then with my data. maybe I'll put it to app store if I get time to polish it.
Wow that’s great
Thanks for the video! Window screens block a lot of sunlight. I learned this using a light meter. Removing them will give your plants a lot more sunlight, about 50%!
Good to know!
My bird of paradise is chucking out so many massive new leaves now that it's under my mars hydro 😍 I'm so happy! I bought a light meter too, it's so fun going around the house checking the light 😂
Keeps you busy for sure 😂
Love Sansi lights as well. Over winter, I tried to reduce costs and placed all my plants in one big room with three 36watt Sansis supplementing two hours in the morning and two hours in the evening. The amount of natural light was minimal to medium.
And surprisingly, this was enough to keep them slowly growing without problems.
Readjusting them to the outside world in early summer took a bit longer, so I burned some of the leaves, but I now know, there is no need to simulate the desert during winter, to keep all my different plants alive and happy.
Nice tactics!
"I might as well have harry potter looking after these under the stairs" HAHAHAHAH. I came for the plant content, but really stayed for the jokes!! I adore your content
Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for watching 😁
I see your chinese money plant and I was shocked that mine could handle massive amounts of sun. It was struggling so bad in the winter so now I know I will need to give it 12 hours of grow light exposure in the winter. I left it out on my balcony and the leaves did not burn and its thriving. My dwarf ficus lyrata, and stromanthe triostar are also loving it outside in the America heatwave.
I LIKE the mirror idea.
Something else to consider is that most windows filter light by design to reduce glare, thermal gain, and UV exposure. Any plant indoors will simply not receive the same amount of light it would outdoors
Great point
Always ready for a new vid from you! You've helped me so much with my new plants. Thank you
I'm so glad!
You might want to trim your outdoor hedges to let in more light. I accidentally discovered better indoor plant growth by the windows when we removed our big old outdoor bushes.
That's them trimmed! I like it for privacy
Thank you for the Sansi light recommendation!
Any time!
I have a PAR meter and was shocked how little some of the Amazon “grow light” led bar strip actually output. A quality led bulb had 4x energy output.
Thank you so much! Your videos always seem so timely. Lol. I've recently jumped into the confusing world of light measurement for my plants. Here in texas, the beginning of spring to very early summer is a beautiful time that I can put most of my plants outside to get some really big growth. However, mid summer is a sweltering nightmare and they just can't take it anymore. Lol. I brought them in and now am seeing a serious slow down in growth.....so I jumped into amazon plant lights and it's frustrating. Different lights use different light measurements, different color lights make a big difference, and sometimes a good plant light doesn't even have to be labeled a plant light. Thanks so much for the product suggestions and info. It's really going to help me upgrade.
Cool, glad you found it useful!
Not only do I get great info from you, I always get a laugh or two on top!! Thanks!
Fab!
I've used moisture meters for decades, and grow lights for a couple, but now you've made me really curious about getting a light meter. Thanks.
Go for it! It’s good fun anyway
So helpful.
When purchasing grow lights always opt for diffused light, the plant can photosynthesize this easier as the light particles are broken up and spread across the leaf surface instead of one intense beam.
Also we the lux rating and anything above 2000 lux is best for the plants.
Sure 👍
I just ordered a 4 head clip on. Thanks for the discount 🙏 I love your channel and I have learned so much from you 😊
That is awesome!
In ‘16 I bought grow lights for my Meyer lemon tree. Comments out there were saying upwards of $1/day to run lights. They weren’t LED bulbs & got really hot. Even spent $60 on a local plant bulb. So ridiculous. It was the old silver aluminum type as well. So LED plant lights have come a long way!
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I love my light meter, what we perceive as bright really is t in most cases, it’s quite an eye opener… there are apps on phones that use the camera to do the same thing, although I’d suspect they’d be more of a ball park figure compared to a “proper” one… another thing to consider when using growlights is PAR, the cheap 🇨🇳 lights will be bright but not necessarily useable to the plant
Thanks for the tip
@@SheffieldMadePlants the Sansi bulbs are good though, I meant the generic “grow lights” that litter amazon and eBay
Hey Richard. Thanks for the mention and good information!
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Hey from Buffalo originally from NY 🗽. I wish you would give us more videos! I love them! Thanks.😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Great video 👍 My kitchen and dining room get the most light. I have some plants in the living room that are doing well. However, in the spring I am going to install a skylight in the living room to bring in more light so I can get more plants. I think this will help tremendously.
Sounds lovely 😊
I have a meter that measures moisture, light, & pH. I've really only used it for moisture, but hope to get my plants organized soon & will measure light & pH soon. It wasn't expensive & got it from Amazon 3 yrs ago.
Ph is surprisingly important too
Excellent video thank you. Timely for me as I have (as usual) been overthinking which grow lights to buy or just getting rid of all my plants apart from the calatheas which seem to enjoy my damp & dim old cottage LOL.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks 🙏
Really good video - great tips as always. The light meter is such a life-saving tool - thanks to it, I know where not to place plants to keep them alive and beautiful. The human eye gets adapted to the light levels fast, so unfortunately we often overestimate our natural ability to assess the light levels suitable for plants (I see that all the time and made this mistake myself repeatedly - until I used a free LUX measuring app on my mobile phone, then I was horrified by the low light levels too).
So true!
I have 10 plants now but that's abit too many for my big home any more would be too much. I how do you manage with all those plants
I love your informative and entertaining videos! Even the most experienced plant parent can always learn something new 😁
Thank you 😊
oh no! super informative. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
I’m going to get a light meter really interesting 🤔 never thought about getting one, I suffer from low light on my large windows as well I just bought a ton of grow lights and they have done the job.
Great stuff 👍
Wow!! This really help me a lot...Thanks for sharing
Glad it was helpful!
My Jade plant was awesome, but it needed bright light & I failed in every area of my house to keep it alive.
...This video is so helpful. How long fo these lights last? Do you leave it on for 8 hours only?
I leave them on for 12 hours
I have one of those 1 in 3 moisture meters, and my plants get 500-1000 foot candles in the morning, I need to measure the afternoon sunlight though as it is a west facing window
I also stopped rotating my dragon fruit since that video, so thank you for the tip, it was really useful
My pleasure 😊
Thanks!
Thank you 😊
Thank you for the video and for all the great tips and advice 👍🏻
I just ordered two more of the two-armed clip-on grow lights from Sansi, that you showed in the video. I'm very happy with the one I already got... and winter is coming 😉
Fantastic! That depresses me slightly 😂
@@SheffieldMadePlants I'm sorry about that, do you want me to cancel the Sansi order? 😜😂
@@TheNetsrac no we all need it. Winter coming is the depressing thing 😂
@@SheffieldMadePlants I know, I was just being silly
Seattle area, plenty of sun & blue skies from March-Nov in recent yrs….but I’ve discovered that LED’s are necessary, esp for peace lily! (leaves grow larger) I’ve bought 4 of the $20 gray base LED light post w/ 3 lights on it. My livingroom looks like a science experiment when looking in at night. Thanks for the wealth of info! 🌞(I only have 1 south window & it gets too hot in summer. So all my plants face west & shaded by 🌲🌲🌲. I hear ya on what you think is enough…my ZZ & snake plant were suffering in similar (thought was enough) lighting.
Glad i'm not the only one 😅. So true about the science lab look
I love love love your channel. So glad i found you ❤😊
Thank you so much!!
Good morning from Missouri! 😊🖐🏾
Hey there!
This was enlightening!
Yeah, I needed to put double sunglasses on 😎
@@_evangelina__ lol!
Great video! I just got a water meter for my daughter and myself. A light meter would be good to have too. Thanks for the info! :)
You bet!
Lux and foot candle are basically the same unit with different factor. One candela is luminosity of a wax candle, a lumen is one candela times square radian (sector of a circle that the light fills) and lux is one lumen per square meter (so it's the metric area that the candlelight fills). Daylight is 10 000-25 000 lux and direct sunlight is ~30 000-100 000 lux. One foot candle is approximately 10-11 lux (as you probably noticed changing the unit, 0,3 meters * 0,3 meters difference). Foot candle and smaller number are definitely more practical when you're not calculating anything based on the numbers. Although I still wonder how there isn't a unit that gave more intuitive results (like what is 100 candles supposed to mean where your plant sits).
Unnecessary technicalities aside, my suggestion is to live in an apartment in a block of flats positioned so that the next building's window reflects the sun in the afternoon inside your windows. Saves my dark apartment facing east. More seriously though, have you investigated windows and UV light effect on plants? I believe here windows block UV light and I've heard that at least some plants tend to like UV light as well.
I've not tested that. One for the future maybe. Foot candles is a smaller number so i'll use that 😂
Is any unit intuitive? I'd argue probably not. I think feet used to be based on someone's foot at one point but no longer. A degree Fahrenheit/Celsius? What does that mean? A second? What is that? None if it has meaning until applied to a context that you become familiar with. So seconds, minutes, hours, feet, meters, etc. are all intuitive to most people because we constantly use them. It's probably rare for people to work with light measurements, so none of it will have meaning until you develop that context and experience.
@@plant-logic You can say all units are arbitrary and you need to learn their use contexts to make any sense of them, but some are more intuitive to use than others.
Celsius surprisingly makes quite a bit of sense for 0 ℃ being freezing water and 100 ℃ being boiling water in normal atmospheric pressure, even if it's difficult to place a number accurately by perception (due to tolerable temperatures for touch and the material in question being a factor that changes the experience for how temperature transfers). It's still somewhat easy to approximate that 60 ℃ and above is quite hot, burning, and 40 ℃ being at upper end of pleasant.
Metre is a slightly large step so not that unintuitive and foot is pretty much foot, inch roughly thumb. Foot and inch I'd argue are close to the definition of intuitive unit, having been born from our body measure itself. 1 kg is a carton of milk (obviously tied to region) or litre of water (10cm x 10cm x 10cm, roughly the distance between eyes). You do have some clue about how heavy things are from just the number until you reach objects that are difficult to fully grasp anyway.
With the previous examples of units you're somehow able to paint a picture in your head, but megapascals don't become more intuitive even if you work with steel beam tensile strength and know that S355 has σ of 470 MPa. It just doesn't mean much (perhaps because you either snap a stick or don't, you don't approximate how many Newtons you need/can apply in square millimetre).
On the other hand, light you observe a lot all the time. 10 000 or 30 000 lux just is a number on such a scale, while 50 being living room lights, that the numbers give no clue even if you have been in candle light or daylight. Where would 500 place with that knowledge? I don't think you could become too accurate in gauging lux or candle feet by eye in a room even if you did it for work. But for example a unit tied around daylight and scaling in a manner that felt more connected to how we perceive and experience light changes. Probably logarithmic since luminosity grows so extremely to daylight. To me it would make more sense if moonless overcast night placed at 1 instead of 0,0001, bright daylight to direct sunlight took the space of 9...10 instead of 10 000...100 000 and indoor lighting 6...7 instead of 50...500.
@@Yupppi I guess we are focused on slightly different things. It's taking me a minute to try to figure out how to how to clearly spell it out. I guess units are always tied to some kind of concept or context. But maybe these are different things... So we can have a concept like distance or temperature. Those are things most people are familiar with. Then you have Fahrenheit and Celsius. Those are different units of temperature. Yards and meters are different units of distance. They serve the same purposes but have different use cases/contexts.
Aside from knowing meters are about 3 inches longer than yards, it's hard for me to gauge how they apply to different things. The idea of a 39 inch measure of length is indeed easy to grasp. However, it'd say that's not an intuitive unit. Throughout my life, I haven't considered distances in factors or multiples of 39 inches. I'd have to perform calculations or take measurements to grasp what I'm working with. The same applies to temperature. Aside from the easy freezing and boiling points you pointed out, none of the rest of the values in between have meaning to me. But if you give me any number between the oddly chosen 32 and 212 degrees in Fahrenheit, I can instantly understand how hot or cold that might feel and associate that with conditions where I might find those temperatures. I would say the Celsius scale is more intuitive than Fahrenheit without further context, but it's not intuitive to me at all. (one can dream of the day the US moves to metric)
So even with some of the simplest concepts to grasp, I'd say those corresponding units aren't all that intuitive. It's not until you add the experience of working with those units constantly that the intuition develops. It's not like I'm an expert on temperatures in the 40-49 degree Fahrenheit range, but I have a much better feeling about them than what 40-49 degree Celsius signifies. So maybe the difference in how we're looking at intuitive units relates to looking at "what a unit is" vs "how a unit applies to different contexts". Going with the first "what a unit is", I think I agree with most of what you said.
Looking at light, I think it's probably a much more difficult concept to grasp than something like distance. From an early age, we're constantly exposed to distances. We have our heights measured regularly. We play with blocks/legos and learn how they fit together. We grow and have to find clothes to fit. We're told school is so many miles away. Grandma's house is a different number of miles. We're also constantly exposed to light, so we're familiar with the concept. However, when do we ever see measurements of light? Until my interest in plants, the only place I recall is the non standardized brightness readings for TVs and monitors. We can call something dim or bright, but what does that mean? It's always relative to something else, but there's hardly ever a quantified measurement. I'd argue we have very little understanding of what's going on. The first time I took physics, it completely warped my view of reality. It's crazy how far off I was from understanding something like kinematics before learning some basic physics theories/rules.
With my very limited understanding of light, I'm not sure it's possible to come up with an easy to understand unit of measure. The concept may just be too complex. A lot of the simpler concepts scale linearly, but sometimes that's not the case like you mentioned with a logarithmic scale. So even with a nice and intuitive starting and ending point like moonlight/sunlight, all the values in between may not have much meaning. A lot of people don't realize decibels work logarithmically. In your first comment you mention trying to decipher how candles might affect plants, but then there's even more to it. You've got PAR to take into consideration, and I don't believe lumens or foot candles really tell you much about how a plant will grow.
So I guess the TLDR would be that when looking at how easy it is to grasp what an individual unit is, I'd agree some units could be considered intuitive. I think some units are more intuitive than others to grasp in this way. When looking at how units are applied in different contexts, I still think even the simplest units for the simplest concepts aren't all that intuitive. I can't really say one way or another if a simpler unit could be created for light, as I simply don't have a strong enough grasp of the concept of light. I've seen it around me all my life, but I don't have an intuition on how to quantify it.
I managed to burn a fiddle leaf fig at a closed double glazed sunny window so I imagine that some UV light may just be able to get through glass? Although UV light dosen't have any effect on plant growth it may have an effect on plant health as UV light can help plants to fight off pests and diseases in the wild.
It also matters what direction is your window, North is good for the plants as it isn't direct light. But if you live where there isn't much light, South is good. African violets like the East light so you're in luck. Those lights look very nice.
Couldn't agree more!
Hey, Mr. Sheffield! I need one of those gadgets!
Well worth it!
Helpful tip from a pro: keeping your windows clean, especially on the outside, increases the amount of light going into your home. Consider giving the outside of the glass a thorough cleaning to remove contaminants that prevent light from passing through.
Good shout 👍
I am really surprised by your light readings. In your videos the rooms look so bright and full of light and then the readings show the truth. Makes me think about my plants that I thought were in great light. Thanks.
I was shocked too!
Thankyou so so much. Ive been trying to understand this foot candle light for a few years and this is by far the best explanation and i finally think i can get my head around it now. Im going to keep this vidio too refer too. Your so good at explaining things. I cant 5hank you enough.❤
Glad it was helpful!
I love the sansi lights. I have a similar one attached to my plant cart in my low light dining room.
Great stuff 👍
I want a light meter! My family has told me with my plant addiction if I start getting grow lights they'll do an intervention 😂
Time to part ways 😂
@@SheffieldMadePlants Oh my! I was gone for a couple of weeks for gallbladder surgery. I thought my plants were over watered. Nope. Thrips! 45 plants!
@@barbaraowens2299 😬
I love my Sansii lights, the 35w is too bright for even some of my hoya. The 10-15 watt ones are great and can cover multiple plants for quite efficient energy! I would have liked to know which direction the windows you were talking about were facing. My south one is way too bright for most of my plants.
I thought I said that?
My Alocasia Macrorrhiza is quite a diva and one of the plants i need to rotate basicly every day. she is sitting in front of my window but still she wants more light and so her big heavy leaves and stems allways turn to the light and they do that in hours. you could basicly film a slowmotion video of her turning around. but that will make my plant super onesided on the weight distribution making her lean to one side if i let her sit there so i have to turn her around every 1-2 days so the stems can turn to the other direction again.
Needy little thing!
Good videos. ❤ You're very comical. 😂
Thanks 😆
Where was this video hiding lol. Not much videos on LUX and light in general. Excellent video. Sometimes the LUX increases depending on what angle you have your meter in that spot. When I got my LUX meter I was beginning to despair... a google search suggested that you need at least 1000 to 2500 LUX for low light tolerant house plants and in a way that is true but at the same time a lot of us living in dark homes in the UK can't provide that much light easily for our plants. I'd say anything from 300 LUX is good for the lowest light tolerant house plants. A ZZ plant for example, people will claim its a low light plant however from my light experiments, a ZZ plant is actually a medium to bright indirect light plant, sure you can put a ZZ plant in a dark room and nothing will happen, it might even grow some new fonds but the ZZ plant can take more than one year to decline in low light. They can live in complete darkness for more than 3 months without showing any signs of decline so in a low light situation it takes a bit longer. I get about 70 LUX at my sunny window on a dull cloudy day and I can get up to 4000 LUX or more on a sunny day at my sunny window. You'd be surprised how dark it really is in our homes. If you stand outside on a sunny day or even on a dull day and look at some windows, it almost looks pitch black through the window standing at a distance. It can be 5000 LUX outside on a dull cloudy overcast day so you can imagine that compared with the 500 LUX of light in our homes that might seem bright to us is not really that bright for our plants and is still considered deep dark shade.
Very true thank you
I use a lot of mirrors. Some I frame some I don't. My wife has the final say so on it.👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
They always do!
I’ve had lychee plant leaves grow right through the tiny squares of windowscreen in an effort to reach sunlight ☀️
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harry potter under the stairs :,D
The light meter is a real game changer, I've been using an app on my phone to get a rough idea but I should buy a legit one like you (You really sold me on the moisture meter and its amazing) since phones really arent made for gauging light, so its not really ideal at all.
Another banger video, thanks!
Thanks for watching 😁
using a few 25+ watt grow lights, and my apartment has never felt brighter.
common stores usually only seem to have rather weak warm lights.
Yeah no way bright enough
Lovely ⭐️ How do your plants cope with your house heating in winter? I can see you’ve got a log burner, I wondered if this would create too much heat for them? Cheers x
It’s tougher but I keep things away from the burning stove. It’s the lack of light that’s the problem
Every time you said 'foot candles', I pictured The Two Ronnies 🙂
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I bought Sansi lights for my carnivorous plants that live inside.
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Aw man I'd been meaning to ask where that wooden shelf on your window sill is from for ages - kinda bummed it's handmade, haha!
I’d like to see a video on DLI and the maximum amount of photosynthetic photons low, medium, and high light plants can absorb per hour. The light a plant receives might be very bright for only a few hours, giving it, in theory, its requisite DLI, but is that true? Clearly there’s a point at which the plant cannot take in any more photosynthetic photons. What is that, in terms of PPFD? Grazie!
That all sound very technical 🫤
@@SheffieldMadePlants It is! I haven't been able to find an answer, yet. The daily light integral is useful, but it has its limitations. If it didn't, you could satisfy a plant's daily light requirement by blasting it with 9 million foot candles. Of course, you can't, but that's the point and my question: How much light can a plant use at any one time? Thanks, again, for your excellent videos!
I couldn’t find the light meter on your Amazon link (US, but I didn’t see one on UK either).
I’ll have a look
Would you say shadows are a good guide to light intensity?
I'd love some grow lights, but I worry running them enough to make a difference will be prohibitively expensive.
Not sure about shadows. Seems a bit unreliable. The cost of LEDs isn't that bad really
LEDs are so LESS expensive to have on. I have them in all my light fixtures. I have grow lights on my larger plants. They help with the growth of my plants
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Hi! Great video thanks! Think it might be time for me to get a light meter. Did you have a link for your one? Not sure if i missed it. Thanks!
Just seen the link on your amazon thanks ☺️👍
Where did you get the lamp at 5:51? It's a beautiful lamp!
IKEA
The Two Ronnies popping into my head every single time you mentioned 'foot candles' 🤣
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In one of your film you said that water conditioner can be use to help water for plants..
And im wondering - after using this stuff for fish can i add a fertilizer as well?
Yes you can
You are funny.😄
Thanks!
Sheffield Made Plants Would you know the Sansi grow lights and bulbs be suitable to use in Australia where run on 240 volts, please.
Should say on the website which fixtures they fit into
Hiya, I have a west facing balcony in India. I have started putting my rubber, spider and zz plant on the balcony in the morning then bringing them in in the afternoon. Do you think that is ok for the plants?
Sounds great!
Do you use an adapter plug for the clip on lights? I couldn't see any with the UK plug even though they have a UK option
Mine came with a uk plug
I started leaving the regular LED ceiling lights in my house on during the day after I saw a Planterina video several months ago. I'm very curious to know how much light it actually contributes and I think I'm going directly to Amazon for a light meter!
I'd be interested to know too
there might be free phone apps that can do similar things. don't know how accurate they'd be compared to more serious stuff though.
some of my normal lights seem to measure up to a few thousand but they are probably a bit strong, grow lights seem stronger. and i think some light fixtures may focus the light more than others.
Thank you for this beautiful video Sir, much appreciated.
How accurate is the phone light lux meter app? Have you every used one of em and if so, recommend using it?
(it's free for android users. )
I'm dubious using a phone but i've not tried to be fair
Thank you Sir for sharing your valuable opinion about such apps. Undoubtedly, the meter would be a wise decision to use. 👍
Tee hee I haven’t thought about foot candles since taking physics in high school😂
I don't think i ever did 🤔
Im confused your saying 500 fc but im seeing 390fc at best in the video 6:08
new goal: keep my plants alive solely by lighting the room with a massive amount of candles
Expert moves 😁
Awesome video again, thank you. I have one of these light meters and legit thought it was broken when my brightest window registered 260 ft :( Sansi lights look great but getting them in the UK seems to be a massive issue - I've been checking the website for months looking for a 30-40w clips on light but they never have UK versions.
My house has very few windows, and all but one are either covered by the porch (much as I'd like to take it down the house is 300 years old and my landlady would kill me!) or there is a large fence three foot away.
I have various standard grow lights but they aren't great. If anyone could please recommend me some decent grow lights that are available in the UK and won't cost my my kidneys, my soul and my firstborn son I'd appreciate it :)
Im surprised you can't find something off SANSI. They're all i use so can't recommend another
@@SheffieldMadePlants maybe they just keep selling out when I look? I'll have to check more regularly! I tend to have piss poor luck at most things so it wouldn't surprise me if my timing was just awful 🤣
This video somehow reminds me that I should clean my windows...
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did you compare the accuracy of phone app with your light meter ?
I've not no...
Does anyone move there plants around daily so they all get there share of light
My app tells me to water every 16 days in November and I appreciate your advice to check the soil with the meter before watering. Because of the growing light, I suppose the plants require water more frequently, similar to the growing season. How is your experience?
Yep that's right
Hi do you sell any
plants x
Nope
I am going to wait until shorter days return and autumn/winter settle in to take some conclusions because if these numbers are true and my phone app is measuring correctly, I will be quitting indoor plants before the end of the year...
😂 it's saying low light?
@@SheffieldMadePlants I mean, on a Portuguese, clear sky, sunny summer day my best windows give me not even in the vicinity of the 500FC's... (Lux app).
well off to buy a light meter
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My poor poor plants 🤦🏼♀️
Just not enough natural light. I have to use grow lights in front of my windows!
Mad isn't it!
Is grow light harmful for our eyes?
Nah
If your mobile phone has autobrightness setting, it has a light meter. I downloaded an app ages ago. No need to buy an actual light meter if you're just keeping plants.
Thanks for this tip! What is the name of the app you have?
@@CrazyPlantLady911
Light Meter - Lux Meter by Coolexp
Also converts to foot candle (fc). Has minimal ads but is free.
@@CrazyPlantLady911check out Photone
Never heard anyone using the term foot candles instead of lux, which is the scientific term
Either is
I understand why you use candels or lux to measure brightness, but plants don't "see" light as us humans. It's about the color spectrum and umol/cm^2/s.
I know you’re no big expert or botanist, but do you know the answer? Why is it so important to give houseplants so much light for it to grow fast and be healthy, when in nature in the tropical rainforest it is dark on the forest floor and only 2% of light seeps through. Even plants that love high light started out in the deep dark undergrowth. Yet the grow extremely fast in order to race to the light. Why is it so important for my plants to get as much light as possible. but in nature, plants can grow for years in the dark looking for the day they finally reach the light they’ve been fighting towards all their life and do fine?
Where did you get the 2% from? Light outside is usually much more than inside
@@SheffieldMadePlants it is, but in rainforests like the Amazon all the trees shade out the light and it gets really really dark even during the day.
Cut that hedge in front of your window lol 😂 just joking.
I like the privacy 😁
Too bad the Sansi bulbs don't seem to fit into European fittings, like E14 or E27.
They fit e27
@@SheffieldMadePlants thanks!
I'll be disappointed if you don't rip that hedge out at some point! Also have the curtains behind the plants rather than infront.
I need that hedge for privacy
@@SheffieldMadePlants Have you considered fencing with some gaps plus some mesh netting so light still filters thru?
I love this battle between light for houseplants and privacy! lol I went thru this and eventually tore bushes out. I got that lacey netting (not sure what it is called) for the windows.
@@theuglykwan I’m happy with the hedge tbh
Why don't you and ALL PLANTY CHANNELS SHOW AND USE LIGHT METERS AND SHOW THE MEASURES YOUR SPEAKING OF ???? Luv your channel....❤❤❤
Not sure what you mean. I thought I did that here?
@@SheffieldMadePlants I meant other plant channels who try and give advice. Sorry
@@teresawingbermuehle4212 got it 😁
Aren't foot candles/ lux not really that useful? They measure brightness and not intensity of light, or how much energy the plants can get from the light. Brightness =/= more energy for the plant. A more useful measurement would be something that measures the amount of photons the plant is receiving, which is what allows the plant to photosynthesize. One example of a light like this would be PPFD.
I'm no scientist but isn't bright light bright light?
@@SheffieldMadePlants To a certain extent, yes. However the light has to be usable to the plant which not all light is ( I think between like 400-700 nm wavelength) and a unit such as PPFD is taking that into account whereas lux/footcandles are not
If you look through the different details on Sansi's lights, it even breaks down how the PPFD lowers the further you stray off an x and y axis from the center of the light. For a very affordable light they aren't bad to supplement sunlight with
However for myself, I need much more due to how much my new apartment lacks and had to look to brands like ViparSpectra or Mars Hydro to do the heavy lifting in my poorly lit space