a high-performance grow light system which will let you grow vegetables and
herbs all year long in today's episode we review the spider farmer sf-series
grow lights now I was sent this product for review from spider farmer for
reviewing the grow light SF 2000 system and as you can see there is a little thank-you card inside
along with the instruction manual which is actually quite simple in my opinion
it just has a few pages one with some information on what the grow lights are
and some assembly instructions now inside the package you will see the
actual grow light and the one thing that strikes you right away is the
compactness of the product you usually expect grow lights to be huge and with
the vents and stuff like that this is pretty compact it actually looks quite
good it's quite modern looking and you also have some tags some plant tags that
you can use to label your plants and a very useful tape and I will shortly show
you what's the use of using that inch tape or a centimeter tape some supports
are also included which will help you secure your grow light system now this
is how the actual LED system looks like and it has a lot of these LEDs
and there are different colors there are I believe two colors or three colors of
the LEDs here and if you look at the array it's pretty well arranged and this
sf 2000 covers 3 feet to 4 feet approximately and it's quite sufficient for growing
quite a lot of vegetables or herbs in your garden all year long now it's quite
cold here in Southern California we will still be able to use this grow light
system to grow vegetables and herbs indoors and as you can see the light
system is quite bright and it's actually extremely bright and this is the area
that we are going to be installing our grow lights on now I might change this
area to a newer spot depending on how I arrange my room here this room this area
is actually under our stairs and it's quite a compact area to set up this grow
light system
and these are the clips or the hooks that will hold the grow light system in
place there are four such clips or hooks that will go onto the grow light system
and they will then be suspended by this other part which is the support this is
the adjustable support system so basically one of the ends goes to your
grow light system the one which has the big black block and the other side
actually goes where it's hung and the instruction manual is quite simple to
understand all we really do is take the four clips or hooks and attach it to the
grow light system base
as you can see there are four such clips or hooks that are provided two for each
side of the grow light and there's also the black colored thread which actually
helps you support the grow light system and suspend it from height
and as you can see here the instruction manual it's quite clear on how this
system should be installed so we're gonna go ahead and show you how
to install the grow light system and help support it in the area that you're
planning to put your guru lights in so the first step is to attach the four
corner hooks or clips as you can see here it's a pretty straightforward
process and I like the fact that the clips or the hook receivers themselves
are metallic it just helps a lot in securing these
clips and here is a close-up of how this should look like
and as you can see the system itself has no fans no exhaust it's just a very
modern looking system and this is how the grow light will actually attach to
your system we will be using these black suspension threads that are adjustable
and these hooks are quite good quality they just snap right on to your grow
light system hooks as you can see and although you can just use these two
hooks to suspend your grow light system I highly recommend that you use these
black thread and this will really help you suspend your grow light system very
well now one point to remember is that when you are attaching your grow light
system the hooks that have the thick adjustable area go towards your grow
light and the other end actually goes towards the wall or the ceiling where
you're going to be attaching your grow light to and the reason for that is the
adjustable area is very easy to manipulate
while it's connected to the top of your grow light system and there's a little
lever here that will let you adjust the height of your grow light system and
it's quite easy to use I like the design and so far while assembling the product
I think the product design is excellent it's quite compact it has this heat sink
or the heat dissipator on the top that also provides power and the hooks are
quite good quality and they have included a lot of material in the kit
itself so for the price that you are paying I think it's a great quality high
performance light system where the lot of accessories included
and this is how your grow light will be eventually suspended in our case we will
be attaching this to the ceiling you can also get some supports that you can
attach your grow light to however in our case the ceiling height is quite low
here this is about six feet and the grow light can be easily suspended in this
area now the total width of the grow light itself is about two feet and we're
going to be using some eyes or the eye hooks to attach these to the top of the
ceiling here and remember that our ceiling height is quite low if you have
higher ceilings that's still fine you will need to adjust the height of your
grow light accordingly but these eye hooks can be easily
purchased at any hardware store like Home Depot or Lowe's
and they just screw right in to the wall and these are extremely easy to use and
it'll help you suspend any kind of grow light very easily now we are spacing
these about two feet apart and the reason for doing that is the grow light
itself is about two feet in width and this will help us easily hang the grow
light from these two eye hooks that we have attached to the ceiling
and attach the top hooks or the top clips to the grow light system and
that's it that's how the grow light system is installed and as you can see
extremely easy to install this probably took just a few minutes of my time to
install and get going so overall I was very pleased with the quality and the
ease of use of the grow light installation now one last thing that you
need to do is if you see all these wires all these black threads that are hanging
down you need to secure them and before you secure them just make sure that your
height is adjusted in our case we're adjusting our height to about two feet
from the top which is what the manual recommends and as you can see here we
are right about ten inches from the bottom which means that we'll have to go
a little higher and to adjust the grow light all you do is release the lever
and then adjust the grow light height so that it is at the height you desire
now for the purpose that we are using this grow light for which is the
microgreens and vegetables they will be suspending this at a height of about two
feet which is ideal for any kind of herbs or microgreens or vegetables and
as you can see now our height is at about 22 inches so if you are just gonna
go a couple inches higher and while you are adjusting the one side
of the grow light you do have to adjust the other side as well just to make sure
that the grow light is balanced and straight now I usually eyeball it you
don't have to be very precise and use a leveler or anything like that
and finally we have achieved our height of 24 inches and a last step is to
secure all the loose threads or the loose cords in place and the kit came
with a little rubber band that you could use to secure this as well so all you do
is adjust the height of your grow light and then secure all the threads the
black threads using the rubber band just like that just make sure that it's not
touching any of the hotter areas like the top of the lights you want to make
sure that it's all secure so let's go ahead and turn on the lights
and as you can see as soon as we turn on the lights
these lights are extremely bright in fact they are so bright that my camera
is not able to capture all the highlights that are there for this grow
light so once again here you see this gives a much better view of how the
lights are I believe they are like white as well as some red and blue lights and
this covers the entire spectrum of what your plants need to grow and thrive
once again this is a very modern-looking extremely good-looking grow light and
I've used these hooks just to keep the wires away from touching the tables or
touching the surface of the heat dissipator
and that helps me maintain a clean appearance here for the crew lights as
you can see and there are some suggestions on the user manual as to
what's the distance and what's the lighting time and some growing tips that
you should be aware of and there are also some instructions and details on
what grow lights are used these are Samsung very high quality LED lights and
there are some instructions on the operating voltages as well just spend
some time reading and going over these manuals and that will be very helpful
now I have set up my grow lights on this table here I'm planning to set up a set
of two grow lights in this area and as you can see the SF 2000 grow light has been setup here and what are we gonna do
now we are going to be planting some microgreens
so right under the grow light you can see that I have taken a container and
this container contains coco coir this is the coco coir potting mix with coco
chips from VermisTerra and I've reviewed this product in one of my earlier videos
as well it's a great quality product to grow microgreens and we are also going
to be mixing some worm castings these are also the VermisTerra worm
castings and this is an excellent quality product I've been using VermisTerra
products for quite some time now and I can comfortably say that they're
extremely high quality products and we're gonna be mixing some worm castings
into the VermisTerra coco coir mix as you can see this is for the microgreens
preparation we're going to be preparing the bed for our microgreens and coco
coir holds a lot of water and that makes it a great medium for growing
microgreens we've taken a wide container and we're going to be planting some
broccoli some peas as well as some radish microgreens in this container
our coco coir mixes pre-moistened and these are the seeds you're going to be
sowing some seeds just like that just like you see here
and you can sow micro green seeds close to each other you don't have to space
them apart because they will grow as a bunch and then you can harvest them and
all we are doing is just covering it with a little bit more of the coco coir
mix and this coco coir mix was expanded in water and if you needed more
instructions on how to do that you can check out my previous videos
next up our Peas the pea seeds are quite large in size and pea microgreens make
an excellent micro green and all you do is just scatter your pea is along the
container just like that and then cover it with cocoa core
we're gonna be doing the same thing for our broccoli microgreens we're gonna be
spreading these seeds all around the container just as you see here and we're
gonna be covering it up with a little bit of coco coir and along with our
microgreens we also planted a couple of plants a tomato and pepper plant
everything is now set up properly as you can see the grow light is at about two
feet from the top of the plants that we're growing and we're gonna be turning
on this grow light and as you can see this is extremely bright the camera
takes some time to adjust to the brightness the extreme brightness but I
really love this grow light so far it almost looks like daylight inside my
house and I also used a timer I'll provide links to all the product
descriptions in the video comment and the video description these timers will
help me control for how much time this grow light is on during the day or the
night I can actually set up anytime that I want and this is a set of two
timers these are mechanical timers and in my opinion the easiest to use all you
do is set your current time to the area that's pointed at by the arrow so it's
about a little past ten now so I'm gonna set up the time just like that as you
see here and all these pins these black pins that you see as long as they're in
a down position that means that your timer will be on or your power will be
on so I'm starting at 4 p.m. I want my grow lights to run from 4 p.m. to 6 a.m.
which is about 10 hours a day and the reason I chose this time window is that
I'm usually available to check the grow light during these times so it's just
easier for me to set up the timer in this way but you can set up any 10 hours
during the day if that works for you now once set up it's important to keep the
plants hydrated so I highly recommend that you use something like a spray
bottle to keep the plants hydrated and we'll soon see how the micro greens and
the plants grow under this grow light so there we have it folks that was a
review of the spider farmer SF2000 grow light and also how to use the VermisTerra
coco coir mix and worm castings to set up your containers for growing
microgreens and other vegetables in your home during the winters if you
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links in the video description as well as the comments below we'll see you
again soon happy gardening