Reddit mentions of Desk Clip Plant Grow Light with 360° Flexible Gooseneck and Spring Clamp

Hello! As another succ-loving college student, I invested in a couple of grow lights for my friends. I have this one and this one on roughly 9-10 plants. No etiolation, stress coloring, and they don't get hot to the touch (slightly warm, but that is to be expected).

I leave them on anywhere from 12-16 hours a day and my plants love them! The're a very vivid purple, fair warning. Alternatively, there is the grow light/winter thread that might be helpful to you. =)

If your plants are in a bright south-facing window then they probably won't need a grow light. But it also depends what kind of planst you have. Here's the cheap light I use from amazon. It does the job because I only really need it for one plant but I honestly wouldn't recommend it. If you search in the succulent search bar there are a ton of good threads and grow light recommendations :)

I have two Mocent 15W LED grow lamps (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01NAFSLOH/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1) and two Aptoyu 7W LED grow lamps (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ID6A1MO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1).

I can try and take some pictures of the setup later. It isn't anything fancy. Just a small rolling kitchen cart placed underneath a shelf that I have the light clamped on right now. I have 5 twelve cell seed starting trays (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LX0JBUU/ref=od_aui_detailpages00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) with seed starter. 3 of the trays have tomatos and two of them have hot peppers (which have not germinated yet).

Thanks for replying!

I also keep some succulents at work and I bought this lamp from Amazon. It clips onto my desk and is pretty powerful. I've noticed a big difference in their growth rate!

I’d get a small grow light until it gets warm enough to put them on the windowsill. You can get small ones for pretty cheap! This is very similar to the ones I have :) If you put all your plants close together, one like this would work well.

I ordered this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ID6A1MO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'm stuck in a college dorm with no gardening supplies (or experience) so I was just hoping that these would survive. What would composting entail exactly, just cutting them up and mixing them back into the soil? If I stop watering and fertilizing them will they recover?

Other than the last few years it's pretty wet where I live in the spring and summer. We tend to have thunderstorms at least once a week if not more so I've been keeping it inside and trying not to over-water it. Would something like this be enough or too much light for the plant?

I'll be very curious to hear the results! I keep my artificial photo-period matching my actual local photo-period, but haven't been doing that long enough to notice if that affects color as well, or only affects dormancy cycles.

What I can say definitively is that I had a 1020 tray of Pings outside (in the shade) but a squirrel fucked with them so I brought them in full-time and put them about 6 inches under a 30$ LED on Amazon and they got very pink, and fairly quickly. They honestly look healthier to me as well, but yours looks so healthy I don't think you have anything to worry about there!

If photo-period doesn't do the trick, I'd just grab something like this (https://www.amazon.com/Plant-Light-Flexible-Gooseneck-Spring/dp/B01ID6A1MO/) clip it to the back of the tank, and bend the neck so that the bulb is very close to the Ping (maybe move it in slowly if you're worried about scorching it, and you might potentially have to increase watering to match)

Note: I do not have any experience with that particular lamp, just an example, do shop around. I think you want both red and blue bulbs though (maybe it's just one or the other that colors them, but I don't know which yet lol) I'd link you to one of the ones I own and recommend, but I think they'd all be too large for your needs!

These are from Amazon, the exact listing is "Desk Clip Plant Grow Light with 360° Flexible Gooseneck and Spring Clamp" and they can be found here. 7W full spectrum clip lights, they may be small but they pack a whallop! My California Sunset looooooooooooves these lamps!

The overwinter thread has a lot of info.

I don't have a ton of grow light experience because I'm in socal and only use them temporarily if it rains for a few days. I use a few of these LED clamp lights because they're small, inexpensive, and easily moveable.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01ID6A1MO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_jKjdAbZW1KEJS