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A possible alternative to expensive and unreliable grow lights for indoor gardening
 
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Thinking about growing food indoors I was discouraged by the coast of grow lights and the unreliability of the electric grid.           but then i hit upon the idea of using mirrors to direct sunlight into a room and reflect it to plants with a series of mirrors. I dont know if this is feasible but I'm going to give it a try . someone had a similar idea here is his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ljw8nVzGv0
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Latest revision as of 11:55, 20 May 2018

A possible alternative to expensive and unreliable grow lights for indoor gardening Thinking about growing food indoors I was discouraged by the coast of grow lights and the unreliability of the electric grid. but then i hit upon the idea of using mirrors to direct sunlight into a room and reflect it to plants with a series of mirrors. I dont know if this is feasible but I'm going to give it a try . someone had a similar idea here is his video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ljw8nVzGv0