mini trees with led's

[chrisatpsu]

anyone try tomato cages for minitrees with 50cnt leds last year?

did it turn out well?

do you have pictures?

[rrowan]

I started off with tomato cages but after the first year gave the cages back to the garden and move to pvc pipe.

but thats just me 

Rick R.

[jnealand]

I use 24" floral easels.  I converted one of my 16 trees to LEDs last year in mid season to see how it would look.  I will have to dig out a video and upload to youtube.  Now that I have replaced a bunch of my LEDs with smart strings I plan to convert all my mini trees to LEDs this year.  Using incans they are the biggest power draw I have.

[chrisatpsu]

that's fine, but i'm wondering more about how 50cnt mini lights work for mini trees. i know other people use 100/400/500...

was hoping to see how 50 turned out on a tomato cage sized tree.

can't test right now, i have 6ft tall tomato plants in them!

[tng5737]

I used 100ct for mine and they look great!

[zwiller]

I tried 50 dumb nodes on a 27" art easel it it was awful.  So bad I didn't take pics.

[PJNMCT]

I started off with tomato cages but after the first year gave the cages back to the garden and move to pvc pipe.

but thats just me 

Rick R.

Same category as wireframes in my opinion    too suseptible to ground faults.

-Paul

[dpitts]

I started off with tomato cages but after the first year gave the cages back to the garden and move to pvc pipe.

but thats just me 

Rick R.

Same category as wireframes in my opinion    too suseptible to ground faults.

-Paul

Same. Tried 50. To sparse.

[chrisatpsu]

so 100, seems to be a good minimum?

[keitha43]

I also use 100 leds of each color on my tomato cages. From the post above it sounds like pixels don't look too good. Sounds like we need to wait until they invent smaller pixels or use flex strips in a spiral.

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[chrisatpsu]

i'm building my own "dumb strings" using 5mm rgb leds.   the smart strings use 8mm leds.

[chrisatpsu]

Attached: reason i can't test my cages yet...

tomato plants are 6-7ft tall inside 3ft cages.

(right side of picture is a 15ft row of tomatoes. middle is corn, and left is squash)

[therealbigjim]

MMMMM...fried green maters.....

[mkozik1]

That will depend on which size mater cages you are using.  I have two different size cages and the smaller one I use two 50 ct strings of incan lights.  Would also like to change to the RGBs but I have read in other threads that the LEDs are directional and not omni light the incan lights are so I was waiting a minute.  Had also thought of using the flex strips even attaching to the front of the cages in a half circle ?!?!?

[chrisatpsu]

i have the smaller ones ( i wasn't exactly planning on growing a garden at the time)
I was looking for more of a general glow from the cage trees, rather than looking at individual lights. that's why i choose to make my own 5mm rgbled strings, rather than buy the 8mm off of ray.