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Depressive father died on rail line
A depressive father hugged his young son and told him how he wanted him to grow up before he lay down in front of a train and killed himself an inquest has heard.
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Magnet school lights it up for school year
JONESBORO — They’re lighting things up, so to speak, at MicroSociety magnet school this year. The arrival of a program designed to make the school a “lighthouse campus” is well under way, magnet specialist Beth Couch said.
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Troopers seize drugs
A traffic stop in Port Washington Saturday night resulted in the seizure of a pound of marijuana, six growing lights, four replacement bulbs and other drug paraphernalia.
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Nice Grow Hydroponic photos

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Boswyck Farms at NYC Grows 2010
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Hydroponic Nutrients Help Your Plants Grow Big And Strong

by AndyGoodwin

Hydroponic Nutrients Help Your Plants Grow Big And Strong

Without proper nutrition, all living things eventually will die. This is certainly true of plants grown indoors, that rely on fertilizers for food. If you practice hydroponics or aeroponics as a form of indoor gardening, then you know that the plant food appropriate for this type of gardening system is called nutrient.

There are a wide variety of hydroponic nutrients available, and they are suited to the type of plants you are growing as well as the plant’s stage in their life cycle. Advanced Nutrients and Bcuzz offer several good varieties of hydroponics nutrients. Advanced Nutrients offers a range of hydroponic nutrients suitable for different plant performance needs. They make base fertilizers which are suitable for use as plant nutrition.

The Advanced Nutrients called Sensi Bloom encourage your plants to produce a wealth of flowers, which is important if you are growing plants for their flowers, or if you are growing plants that require many flowers to produce a better yield of produce, such as tomatoes. Advanced Nutrients also offers an organic product called Iguana Juice hydroponic nutrients. This plant fertilizer helps to produce plants with strong branches and a large root system. Advanced also offers fertilizer additives for specific purposes to enhance certain aspects of your plants. Big Bud is one of the most popular additives, and as the name suggests it focuses on the flowers of your plants, increasing the size and number of flowers they produce. Bcuzz is another hydroponics nutrients provider that offers a complete line of plant food. Bcuzz comes in several different varieties. One popular one is their Bloom Stimulant. This nutrient helps increase the flower cell production in your plants, and it helps to increase the sugar molecules in flowers.

This is important if you are growing fruiting vegetables such as tomatoes, or fruits like strawberries, both of which taste better when they are sweeter. Bcuzz also makes a wonderful Foliar Boost, which is an organic product. This fertilizer is used to increase and improve the leaves and root zone of your plants, which is important if you are growing vegetables such as lettuce or ornamental plants such as hostas, where the focus is on the leaves. A Growth Stimulant is also available from this same company. It provides a proprietary mix of proteins, amino acids, aqua-bacterias and micro-nutrients that bring your plants to the peak of perfection in size. These are just a sampling of the superior hydroponics nutrients that are available to help your plants reach staggering proportions quickly.

From years of indoor and hydroponic gardening, Susan Slobac has developed an in-depth knowledge of hydroponic nutrients and writes frequently on the subject.

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New 48″ X 24″ X 60″ Hydroponics Grow Tent Hydro Box Hut Cabinet

Best Choice Products is very proud to introduce to our customer this BRAND NEW INNOVATION 48″(L)x 24″(W) x 60″(H) (4ft x 2ft x 5ft) HYDROPONICS GROWING TENT. Our grow tent helps you achieves the very best climate for your in-door hydroponic plants growth. Our dark room grow tent utilizes thermal film on the interior which is highly reflective, complete Non-toxic, waterproof and extremely heat insulative, perfect environment for indoor cultivation. Can be constructed and display anywhere such a

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DC CTO Launches Private Cloud, Aims to Grow Model City
Brian Sivak, the city’s CTO, spoke at the Gov 2.0 conference this week. Among his plans for DC is a private cloud where IT staff can order up a server in a shopping cart and have it quickly “spooled up.”
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Happy 50th birthday!
I enjoy being a 57-year-old kid too much to change. So it should be no surprise that I rode “Fire in the Hole” at Silver Dollar City five times that same day. My wife should probably grow up too. She was with me on every ride.
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Advantages of hydroponics grow boxes

Advantages of hydroponics grow boxes

The advantages of growing with a hydroponics grow box versus converting a room

There are numerous advantages to grow in your plants hydroponically in a grow box of versus converting a room in your house or apartment. Converting a room can be a huge undertaking. Often there will be a huge mess associated with converting one of the spare rooms of your house or a closet into a hydroponics grow space. Often these spare rooms on their own do not have adequate ventilation by default, so you could have temperature issues right off the bat. Certainly in most cases it’s not a good idea to have water directly on your carpet or wood floor. A grow box is self-contained unlike the grow room but the advantages don’t stop there. A grow room cannot be moved in a moment’s notice. A hydroponics grow box however can simply be moved to another room or space in your house or even to another growing location with ease. It comes completely assembled and ready to use. It can be broken down and cleaned in minutes. You can’t rebuild a the room that fast.

Let’s take a look in depth at what would be required to turn say a stray closet in your house or a spare room in your house into a sufficient hydroponics of growing area for plants in multiple stages of growth. First of all holes would need to be cut in the wall in order to intake fresh air and exhaust heated use air. You will need an odor removal system in order to keep your grow space odor free, and your exhaust bad smells and odors. So you will need to think about good ventilation, such as very powerful fans to move plenty of fresh air in and out of your grow space, and plenty of powerful fans to exhaust air as well. Mini carbon scrubber’s or ionizers to get rid that odor in line as well. Don’t forget all those little accessories you’ll need to get this project done that you probably don’t have right now. Massive expense in tools and little parts.

Then of course you will need to build your own hydroponic system or purchase one. Hydroponic systems can be very expensive when purchased separately so you may decide to buy your own. This means a trip to a hardware store to buy lots and lots of little parts and tools so you can adequately. Think about how expensive those specific tools and various other devices that you’ll need to make your own hydroponics system. It’s getting complicated and expensive already. Unfortunately paying sales tax on a highly marked up products at your hardware store is more expensive than you originally estimated. Many people don’t take that into account.

Not everything that you need is available in a hardware store. Some stuff only to be special mail-ordered from Internet sites like those pumps and all of the unique connectors for plumbing, not to mention the carbon scrubber you are certainly going to need. So now you’re ordering from different vendors online again paying for shipping and a markup on more products that you’re buying at full retail just to get a load of tools and boxes and generally a big mess at your home. You haven’t even began working on your grow room yet look how much time and money you probably spent already at this point.

If you have a garage however you can move all that stuff out there that’s makes building a grow box a lot easier when you have this adequate room. You’ll need to spread all those parts out and figure out exactly how each part needs to be customized and joined together. You can find some good free grow guides online and follow these instructions carefully to make your own hydroponic system. Hopefully it will not leak. You probably will spend at least – to find a decent book on constructing a hydroponic system, as these DVDs and grow both tend to be expensive and overpriced, but it is terrific information. That’s why it commercial and not given away for free.

The lamps used in a good hydroponics setup are often the most expensive and critical part of your garden. This is what makes or breaks your grow. Often a good lighting system like 1000 watt high pressure sodium can cost as much as for 0 just for the lamp lighting system reflector with a ballast.

Once you do actually begin work drilling holes and making lots of noise and a huge mess in your hopefully soon-to-be garden. You may or may not built a decent hydroponics grow room. How much experience have you had doing this in the past. I hope you’re not going strictly on what you just read online. The grow room versus a grow box will certainly not be portable. You can’t get it out of there if you need to hurry. I’m sure that your grow closet probably came out a little bit more amateurish than you may have had in your head. Unless you have experience wiring and working with wood and carpentry as well as with hydroponics, chances are you are not going to be very successful in your first few attempts at building your own grow space. This can lead to poor growing results, a lot of wasted money, a lot of room for improvement in future designs, and probably something you would do a little bit different if you had an opportunity to do it over again. Oh and then the big mess of a building and clean up.

Now let’s take hydroponics grow boxes for instance and compare some of the key differences. They might look a little pricey at first, but are they really now you know the true cost of purchasing all those tools and small parts at full retail prices, and the time it took you to get all that stuff. A grow box usually has many years of design behind it, as these grow boxes are improved over time due to customer’s feedback and new innovations from the company that manufactures the grow boxes is always updating their design.

So no matter what hydroponics you grow box you buy from the very small grow box all the way up to the midrange and large commercial scale grow boxes you know the design is pretty solid. Everything on the grow boxes work. The lights are designed to work with the ventilation system and keep the hydroponics grow box cool. The carbon scrubbers are already in place to get rid of the grow odors. The hydroponic system is built to fit perfectly into that space, and the whole unit can be moved anywhere you want in no time. Sometimes a hydroponics grow box even has wheels on it which makes it totally effortless to move. And when you add up the prices and your time now starting to look like a hydroponics grow box is a way better deal over building yourself.

Unless you’re really the do-it-yourself type that has the confidence to be able to wire high amount of electricity around water which could cause a fire if done improperly, ask yourself is if it’s really worth saving a little bit of money and potentially burning down your house. Chances are this is going to happen but a lot of people get themselves in trouble when their electrical system goes bad and they’ve done damage because they’re not a qualified electrician.

Hydroponics grow boxes you know are designed to work exactly like they need to the very moment they show up. The grow boxes arrived fully assembled and literally just minutes away from plugging them in. Save yourself all the time and all the work and consider buying a commercial grow box which can be plugged into a wall and you are growing. And the technology that the hydroponics manufacturer has put into years of design the system to really make it easy for you to grow just about any plant you want the moment your grow box shows up.

If you would like to learn more about the technology used in hydroponics grow boxes or if you’re interested in building your own grow box I would highly suggest checking out this hydroponic site on this link. They have dozens of free videos that you can watch which really shows off a properly built hydroponics grow box and that technology close-up, as well as show you what a diverse amount of combinations there are in equipment that can be used to build units with different functions and configurations in mind.

It’s really cool to be able to see various one and two and three chamber units with different types of lighting systems and different types of compartments all in one package. If you’re just looking for some general information on hydroponics as well there’s also some really terrific free information on this website as well. So rather than buying one of those expensive DVDs off of Amazon.com considering watching similar videos here for free.

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Cool Grow Lights images

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Growing Toward The Light
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High Times presents Ready Set Grow Instructional Video $30

Chapter 1: Light & Electricity
Chapter 2: Grow Mediums, Water
Chapter 3: Stages of Plant Growth
Chapter 4: Building an Indoor Garden
Bonus Glossary of Terms. 60 Minute Run Time

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The ONLY video you NEED to grow great WEED. Includes: Light and Electricity, Grow Mediums, Fertilizer, Stages of Plant Growth, Building an Indoor Garden and much more…. More >>

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Tips to Grow Nutrient Rich Plants!

All of us have heard about the importance of green food. However only few of us realize how essential it is to grow a healthy plant and supply proper nutrients to it so that food supply remains uninterrupted. Foods from green group of plants are the best for health. You should always have green vegetables in your diet. While discussing greens’ importance, it is important to explain the working of plant nutrients. Selection of right nutrients for plants helps in creating quality green food.

The color of the leaves in plant is green because of the presence of chlorophyll, the plant pigment. Chlorophyll is like blood—the only thing is it has a magnesium atom at center and hydrocarbons tail in place of iron. Thus this molecule is soluble in fats only. Chlorophyll absorbs red and violet light and looks green. It is the capacity of absorption that makes the color of the plant green. The absorption capacity hides the other colors of plants. You can see the other natural colors of plants like brown, red and amber only in autumn when the molecule of chlorophyll decomposes.

The nutrition that is derived from a plant depends on its growth environment. Humidity, temperature, soil properties, sunlight hours makes the difference between plants which won’t create nutrients that are required and a healthy plant. Consumption of a healthy plant full of rich nutrients can ensure a healthy life for you. So as a grower of plant it is essential that you create a situation conducive to the healthy growth of plant. For this it is essential that you supply the right raw nutrient to the growing plant.

Green vegetable leaf is the best resource of folic acids and folates—a component of vitamin B which is needed for reproduction and growth of cells. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant and is available in high amounts in green leaves especially in broccoli, spinach, parsley and kiwi. Other components that are valuable are carotenoids, saturated red to yellow pigments in plants. They are vitamin A components. Vitamin A has a great role in supporting the immune system. Potassium, iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc are also present in green foods. Intake of green foods is thus necessary for maintaining good human health. Thus agriculture or gardening of green foods is essential.

The nutrients that are present in green plants are essential to live a healthy life. People mostly consider taking salad during or before a meal. But salad does not have all the nutrients in it that are essential. Vegetables differ in richness of the nutrients. Only proper cultivation technique can ensure nutrient rich vegetables. One of the essential criterions to produce nutrient rich green products is supplying the growing plant with required nutrients in form of fertilizer and manures. Know what is most suited for the plant and supply it accordingly. This will help you to create plants which have high value nutrient and which are beneficial for human consumption.

So, if you are interested to grow green vegetables in your garden, buy quality plant nutrients from Angus Horticulture Ltd. Angus Horticulture is a small family business that offers quality product and high service standards to their customers.

About the Author:
Gardening is not an easy task as it seems. Growing plants need atmost can and choice of right plant nutrients. The author of this article has explained the necessity of Amenity, plant nutrients in many articles like this. When it comes to buying plant nutrients, he recommends Angus Horticulture.

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T5 2FT 4 Tube High Output Fluorescent Grow Light

Lumen output rated up to 6800 / 3H x 13½”W x 23½”L
UL Listed components, including German made socket and specular aluminum, for longer life
Powder coated, pre-galvanized steel housing
UL Listed ballast with 5 year warranty / Hangs 3 ways – overhead, vertical or horizontal
10 grounded power cord / Includes 4 fluorescent 6400K, T5 tubes

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Hydrofarms newest T5 System delivers performance, flexibility and high lumen output in any growing environment. These systems allow you to choose multiple hanging configurations to meet your gardens design. They combine German specular aluminum with energy-efficient/high-output T5 bulbs and put out double the light energy of normal fluorescent systems…. More >>

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LED Grow Lights | 600 Watt LED Grow Light SmartLightingShop

www.SmartLightingShop.com – The LED Lighting Store’s presents a brief description of our 600 Watt Commercial Series LED Grow Light available at our site or contact us directly at led@smartlightngshop.com.

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LED Grow Light with Super Harvest Colors (NASA Red and Blue)

LED Grow Light with Super Harvest Colors (NASA Red and Blue). Introducing the L.E.D. Grow Light, a new revolution in the way we grow indoors, providing abundant harvests with a lower energy bill.

For the budding hobbyists, this LED Grow Light produces the best light wave spectrum to stimulate maximum plant growth. The CVHZ-G33 LED grow lights are designed to stimulate indoor and greenhouse plants by providing light in the frequencies that plants primarily use for critical biological processes. The NASA space program has proven that blue and red color LED‘s help to optimize plant growth and promotes plant health from the specific parts of the light spectrum in two ways: it enhances the natural process of photosynthesis and saves energy by not generating light in colors that plants do not use.

In this day and age, it is important to reduce waste in terms of heat and light. Conventional grow light systems run hot and use a lot of energy, this excess radiated heat output adds to the cost to cool your home or business. Producing much less heat than conventional grow lights, this energy-efficient LED Grow Light produces almost no appreciable heat and uses 1/3 the energy of a fluorescent system. Delivering only the light your plants need, your running costs will be reduced by minimizing waste, enabling you to save money on electricity.

These practical LED Grow Lights also have the benefit of being silent and unobtrusive. Lightweight with a flat base and 4 corner holes, this LED Grow Light can be hung wherever you want for maximum benefit. This is the ideal Grow Light for plant enthusiasts and plant breeders everywhere, so start spending more time enjoying the fruits of your labor with these incredible Grow Lights! Order yours today as a sample to see how good it really works and then buy in bulk to optimize your cost savings!

At a Glance…

LED Grow Light to stimulate plant growth and keep them healthy when grown indoors Designed for maximum energy-efficiency to reduce wasted light, heat and costs Environmentally safe, mercury and heavy metal-free lighting

Manufacturer Specifications

Main Function: LED Grow Light Power Output: 15W Voltage: 80 – 265V Dimension: 310mm x 310mm x 38mm (L x W x D) Expected Lifespan: 20,000 hours Manufacturer Ref: GDAZ9JNC3MNJ

Product Notes

Significantly quieter with no noisy fans, ballasts and chillers. Lightweight with a flat base, this LED Grow Light can easily be hung or mounted directly to a flat ceiling, making this model easier for mounting in tighter spaces. Individual LED’s produce relatively small light cones, so they are clustered into arrays so the light cones overlap, increasing light intensity and coverage area, meaning you can get a larger coverage area from each light fixture. No wasted energy or extra cooling equipment needed. For use indoors or in greenhouses only. Not waterproof.

Package Contents

Model CVHZ-G33 LED Grow Light

FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions

What are the frequencies of red light and blue light?
Both red and blue light are part of the visible spectrum, this is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to (can be detected by) the human eye. Red light has a wavelength of 620-750nm and a frequency of 400-484THz. Blue light has a wavelength of 450-495nm and a frequency of 606-668THz. Why is red light important for plants?
The red region has a utilization peak around 660-670 nm for Chlorophyll A and around 635-645 nm for Chlorophyll B, depending on the source of information. Plants generally make good use of all red wavelengths except for ones much longer than 670 nm. Why is blue light important for plants?
Photosynthesis works most fundamentally from red light and secondarily from blue light. However, many plants have some need for blue light for proper growth regulation and/or flowering and/or fruiting. What can I grow?
You can grow any indoor plant with this Grow Fixture. LED grow lights are used to grow orchids, roses, peppers, tomatoes, basil, lettuce, herbs, kale, spinach, wheatgrass, broccoli, wildflowers, cucumbers, and many other fruits and vegetables. They are also great for growing or perking up any houseplant. Grow Panels make excellent choices for cloning and seedling lights since they can be placed in tight spaces without worrying about heat build up. The lights would also be suitable for all stages of plant growth. Who would use an LED Grow Light?
They are used by home hobbyists, urban gardeners and commercial growers. Even NASA uses LED grow light technology to grow plants in space! How many LED lights are used?
The Grow Light has a total of 225 LED lights (15 rows and 15 columns).
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How to Develop Your Plants Using Grow Enhancers

For hydroponic growers, it can sometimes feel frustrating having to deal with the same level of development and growth season after season. In the world of hydroponics, the goal is to always get larger plants and bigger yields. Unfortunately, untold numbers of growers simply do not take the steps necessary to see the growth and improvement that they desire in their hydroponics garden. Most hydroponic gardens are only realizing a small fraction of their potential because growers are not doing everything in their power to increase their yields.

Fortunately, you do not have to necessarily be a master gardener in order to enjoy larger yields. All it takes is a little bit of knowledge and the right kind of <A rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.advancednutrients.com/landing_pages/iguana_juice_grow_landing.html”>grow enhancers</A>.If you think you are stuck in your hydroponic development, you will want to read on.

Root Improvers – All competent hydroponic growers know that they need larger roots in order to improve their garden. Yet so few actually do anything about getting the kind of thick complicated roots that lead to massive yields. One major step you can take in this regard is to use a potent root enhancer. These are specifically designed formulations designed to increase overall root mass, which leads to an improvement in nutrient absorption.The highest quality root enhancers usually have beneficial microbes that work symbiotically with the plants roots. By colonizing the root area and turning useless nutrients in your reservoir into something that you can actually benefit from, you create roots that are larger.

Immunize Your Plant – If you do not work to prepare yourself against possible pathogens that might enter your garden, you are just asking for trouble. Even if you have done everything else right, a single harmful fungal or bacterial infection can turn all for the money and time that you have invested in your garden into a room full of wilted plants. Taking just a few moments to think about how to ward off diseases can go a long way. This is why it is essential to use a hydroponic product that uses salicylic acid. Using this product on your plants functions a lot like an inoculation in humans. It stimulates the immune system and makes them more prepared for any future possible outbreaks.

Foliar Spray – Many hydroponic growers think that once they have maximized the potential of their roots, they have done everything that they can to give their plants the nutrients they need. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you really want to enter that next stage of nutrient absorption, you should also use a good foliar spray as a grow enhancers. By using a good nutrient solution, along with a surfactant to make the solution spread evenly over the leaves, you can actually increase your plants total nutrient absorption, which can sometimes be enough to make your overall yield and growth explode.

Cut off Under-performers – You should not neglect the very basics when it comes to your plants either. One of the oldest grow enhancers in the book is to make sure that your plant is as clean as possible. That means that if there are any under-performing or sickly branches, do not hesitate to chop them off. This works as a grow enhancers because it ensure that your plants do not waste energy on maintaining useless branches.

Make Sure To Adjust Your Nutrient Solution – One of the biggest ways that a grow enhancer helps plants is by increasing nutrient uptake. But during the vegetative stage of growth, when the plant is able to absorb the most nutrients, this feature doesn’t help much if adequate nutrients are not in your nutrient solution to begin with. When you add your grow enhancer, you may also want to increase the concentration of nutrients in your nutrient solutions. You should increase it slowly, making an adjustment every day, so you can see what these changes will have on your plants.

Combine with Beneficial Bacteria – The vitamins that come in a grow enhancer can be absorbed more readily when the roots are healthier, thicker, and fuller. For this to happen, you should combine your grow enhancer with a root enhancer, which often comes with beneficial bacteria. These bacteria can help break down the nutrients and vitamins in your reservoir, allowing them to be more useful to your plant and allowing your roots to grow to their full potential. They can also encourage the germination and growth of certain species of beneficial fungi, which can also provide a whole host of other benefits to your plants.

Hello,

My name is Michael Straumietis. I am the co-founder of Advanced Nutrients, an international marketer and manufacturer of agricultural, home & garden, hydroponics plant nutrients and soil less fertilizers. With an inherent green thumb, I began studying and practicing gardening & hydroponics at a very early age. In university, I explored the fundamental processes of plant life at the molecular level. After years of perfecting my knowledge and skills, I formed Advanced Nutrients to share my expertise in hydroponics, plant nutrition and soil science. In my spare time, I love to work in my garden and yard and I also have a small greenhouse where I experiment with new formulas and techniques. I also publish my knowledge in short original papers with a focus on accelerating growth, increasing yield, and improving soil-plant interaction. If you would like my free newsletter, sign up now. I look forward to sharing my knowledge with you here at Articlesbase and making new, lifelong friends. Good luck!

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High Power 42 SMT LED PAR38 Grow Light Budding, white 1313WH

Standard Screw Base/Life time 50,000 Hours
Product Diameter:4.75 or 120 mm/Product Length: 4.5 or 114mm
View Angle 140 Deg/ Consumption:15 Watt
ight output 10 x brighter than 5 mm LED (300 Lumen)
Color:Red (650nm) / Blue (450nm)/White (6500K)

Product Description
This led spot light bulb can be used with any voltage from 110vac to 240vac. It uses 30 of the high powered Surface Mount (SMT) LED to project an extremely bright even Flood Light. It is available in cool white and warm white. The bulb has an expected life of 50,000 hours. These led light bulbs are great in track lighting, canister and recessed fixtures. The bulbs are not dimmable…. More >>

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