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title: "Do grow lights need to be above the plant or can they be below?🤍🪴"
description: "Do grow lights need to be above the plant or can they be below?🤍🪴"
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community: "Anything about plants"
author: "Doll"
published: "2024-01-26T04:45:49.428Z"
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# Do grow lights need to be above the plant or can they be below?🤍🪴

_Posted by Doll on 2024-01-26_

Do grow lights need to be above the plant or can they be below?🤍🪴

## 2 comments

### Gabby commented on 2024-01-26

Above or sideways but above is better

### meptune ★ commented on 2024-01-26

as the comments above have said (get it?) definitely above. The leaves absorb the light

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