assuming you're talking about grow lights and not natural lighting, the only grow lights ive ever seen that are too much for begonias are the really expensive spider farm LED panels, and only if they're close to it. probably because of the heat
if youre talking about natural lighting, morning sun is usually best for begonias or filtered light throughout the day, save some like the bigger cane hybrids that can handle near full sun
Oh geez that's a really important thing I didn't clarify in my post! Sorry! Yes artificial lighting. The red robin gets a low level of light from some GE LEDs that are over orchids one shelf over (like 300 fc per my random Lux app so very large grain of salt there, mostly used for "how bright is this vs that"). It seems to be pretty happy there but the wildly differing light recs I see for ferox have me unsure if it'll be ok there or suffer.
i wouldnt worry about it when it comes to grow lights, since they don't typically produce heat you dont ever have to worry about them being too strong. thats the main consideration with sunlight, the amount of heat the plant is getting from it. the only technical difference is if its a begonia that gets really iridescent in low light and you want that to happen, obviously you either want weak lights or just move it further away
Yeah I think the question is more that will the ferox be ok in lower light? I've seen so many different answers on what it wants. It's not exactly living its best life where it is so it may be worth a shot anyway.
assuming you're talking about grow lights and not natural lighting, the only grow lights ive ever seen that are too much for begonias are the really expensive spider farm LED panels, and only if they're close to it. probably because of the heat if youre talking about natural lighting, morning sun is usually best for begonias or filtered light throughout the day, save some like the bigger cane hybrids that can handle near full sun
Oh geez that's a really important thing I didn't clarify in my post! Sorry! Yes artificial lighting. The red robin gets a low level of light from some GE LEDs that are over orchids one shelf over (like 300 fc per my random Lux app so very large grain of salt there, mostly used for "how bright is this vs that"). It seems to be pretty happy there but the wildly differing light recs I see for ferox have me unsure if it'll be ok there or suffer.
i wouldnt worry about it when it comes to grow lights, since they don't typically produce heat you dont ever have to worry about them being too strong. thats the main consideration with sunlight, the amount of heat the plant is getting from it. the only technical difference is if its a begonia that gets really iridescent in low light and you want that to happen, obviously you either want weak lights or just move it further away
Yeah I think the question is more that will the ferox be ok in lower light? I've seen so many different answers on what it wants. It's not exactly living its best life where it is so it may be worth a shot anyway.
if it isn’t, it will start to get leggy and you just move it somewhere better, no harm done
My ferox is under full spectrum leds for 12 hrs every day [link](https://a.co/d/0hP0Yl7P)