Hi all first post and lighting questions

[MikWya]

I'm just starting to look at orchids, my wife loves them for about a month before they die and I go buy another one.

I'm looking for something similar to the current lights strip lights I mounted under TV. Those mounted I had laying around and are not grow lights, just simple daylight leads. They've only been up for about a week so not sure if they are even helping.

Any strip type light anyone is familiar with that would work well with this orchid. Thinking 3 to 4 foot length so I could put two more on that table?

Posted some pics so I can find out if my plan is even feasible

Thanks all for being here

[Roberta]

First, Welcome!

Especially if there some daylight in the room, any full-spectrum light will do fine. Phalaenopsis are low-light plants, but like about 12 hours a day duration. They're not particularly fussy about the fine points. For general care, check out the first few pages of the sticky thread The Phal abuse ends here.

There is a lot of good information there.

Just a bit of background, when I started out with orchids, I grew Phalaenopsis (the most common "gateway drug", I think ) in my spare bedroom, with good morning light for about 4-5 hours and then the light was very indirect. They grew but didn't rebloom. I added supplemental lights (at the time daylight-type fluorescents, now LEDs are a lot more efficient) 12 hours a day and got about 80% reblooming. It's not intensity that they want, but rather the duration of the light.

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Welcome!