IKEA Cultivation LEDs

PureHarvest · January 3, 2017

My experience with indoor lighting would indicate you can grow tomatoes to seedling stage only. You will not be able to take a crop to full term. This light does not have the intensity needed.
I think what others were trying to say is, don't get hung up so much on the color/spectrum. You need INTENSITY and coverage to actually grow a tomato all the way to harvest.
You could at best do one microgreen or baby leaf tray under it. Or raise seedlings of tomatoes for a few weeks after germination.

January 3, 2017	#14
PureHarvest Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Mid-Atlantic right on the line of Zone 7a and 7b Posts: 1,369	My experience with indoor lighting would indicate you can grow tomatoes to seedling stage only. You will not be able to take a crop to full term. This light does not have the intensity needed. I think what others were trying to say is, don't get hung up so much on the color/spectrum. You need INTENSITY and coverage to actually grow a tomato all the way to harvest. You could at best do one microgreen or baby leaf tray under it. Or raise seedlings of tomatoes for a few weeks after germination.