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title: "Hello! I just ordered grow lights for the first time. I ordered a…"
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# Hello! I just ordered grow lights for the first time. I ordered a…

_vanni and ali님이 2024-10-08에 게시함_

Hello! I just ordered grow lights for the first time. I ordered a light bulb and some that clip on to something. How exactly do these work? How long should they be on? Most of my plants are part sun/part shade but I have a few that are full sun. What is best to make this work? They will all be in one room most likely.

## 5개의 댓글

### Hayley님이 2024-10-08에 댓글을 남겼어요.

Not sure what kind of clip lights you got, but here's an old picture of my setup with clip on lights; they were clipped to the stand and they had holes in the clip part that I used to hang them from command hooks.

I leave mine on for 12 hours from spring equinox to fall equinox and from fall to spring, they're on for 8  
-10 hours, depending on what the timer settings are (to simulate a dormant period).

Plant lights work a little different from actual sunlight, so I normally start all plants about a foot from the light. Depending on how they react, some get moved a little farther away. Usually the full sun plants are fine with it and depending on the shade/sun plant, some are fine, some need backed up to about 2 feet from the light.

![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/E74oCroo69AYnE3elMqN0uKik2R2q0ROCGKjlRpMOR4/_4BeWeeDSEGFCDthlek0iQ.webp?size=large)

### Ji11님이 2024-10-08에 댓글을 남겼어요.

I recommend getting a light meter

![1개 중 1번째 첨부 파일](https://images.getplanta.com/v1/resize/fBH_28A5qaP2hoVvraoji7PuhH2kRqkI0DYvYyUVg94/J-zPR3N-Q0aKPgjV1pVjwQ.webp?size=large)

#### Sunny님이 2024-10-08에 답변했습니다.

I second that recommendation. I realized some of my lights had little effective unless they were 1 foot or closer to my plants. My plants flourished once I got them closer to the lights.

### MikeNeedsMorePlants님이 2024-10-08에 댓글을 남겼어요.

I buy BN-LINK digital outlet timers to automatically turn on/off my lights. A 2-pack was $18 on Amazon. My guess is if you've ordered grow lights once you'll be tempted to buy more! Definitely easier to let the timers do the work for you than to manually turn the lights on and off. Especially useful when you're on vacation and you're not home to use the switches!

Oh, and I leave it on from 8:00am to 8:00pm, so 12 hours.

#### MikeNeedsMorePlants님이 2024-10-08에 답변했습니다.

I'd avoid the wifi/bluetooth smart plugs, though. Bought one and it stopped working because we had wifi issues in the house. Defeated the whole purpose of the plug, and tbh I never manually turned it on/off via my phone anyway. Sometimes simpler is better!

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