I started my indoor, apartment garden first week of April. I love my veggies front to back - morning to afternoon sun. All started from seeds. All my squash, zucchini, tomatoes, okra, jalapenos, lettuce, garlic, ginger, red onions, green spring onions, sweet potatoes, beets, sweet bell peppers, all all growing quickly and look beautiful. And I can eat the beet leaves and the beet bulb, which is cool. And Zucchini leaves are so beautiful & ornamental.....so my landlord doesn't know I am growing an outside garden, indoors....lol I will get a grow light, soon, as I want my veggies to be stable in one place for the duration. I will harvest seeds from my veggies, for next year. I appreciate all you teaching, guidance, and advice, as I am a novice and want to become self sufficient! So....THANK YOU for all you do in helping us grow real, un-tampered food! With all the hormones, steroids, antibiotics, nuclear/radiation & metals in the earth that damages soil.....I refuse to eat store bought. God bless you!

Having homegrown tomatoes in winter is totally worth $300. I’m in. I grew a certain herb using the fluorescent-type grow lights and that worked exceptionally well. I did make my own grow tent using aluminum foil covered cardboard. A quick tip. I got better growth using air pots vs conventional bottom draining pots. Thanks for the cool video. This should be fun!

I have been thinking of an indoor garden for a long time. My growing season is very short. In fact, I can't plant most vegetables until Memorial Day! It will be below freezing this Friday night. I will set something up soon, but look forward to watching your progress. Please continue with all good and bad, and an learning curves. It will be greatly appreciated.

Up here in South Dakota I have enjoyed fresh vie ripened Tiny Tim tomatoes inside my cold room under LEDs throughout the winter with numerous fruits ripening again. -Bob...

I guess this doesn’t work if you don’t have any updates 9 months after...

Greetings from Louisiana !! I'm so glad you did this. I just purchased some grow lights from Amazon before I discovered your channel on KZfaq. I have no idea what I'm doing and I am new to gardening so this is very helpful. I'm currently growing sweet corn squash zucchini green beans lettuce carrots garlic mint Oregon Parsley basil PotatoesTomatoes okra Watermelon Jalapenos bell peppers Bunching onions and cantaloupe on my 2nd floor apartment balcony ! And just in case anyone was wondering, Yes my neighbors think I'm crazy, and the squash bugs found me way up here ! I very recently found myself going through a divorce after 21 years of marriage, and I found that gardening is cheaper than therapy, and for me ,more effective. May God continue to bless your family and your garden.

Here in Texas, I was able to grow a tomato during nov- Dec indoors with the snow. I used grocery bought tomatoes as an experiment. It grew pretty fast by my window.

Hah! I'm thinking that for those of us living in a rainforest, the fact that the light is full spectrum might help with my Seasonal Affective Disorder, might save room for a chair by those plants!

I'm going to start growing tomatoes today 😊👍. Yesterday I saw my first baby jalapeno pepper 😆😀🙃😁 !!!!! I have been calling the plant Brian

I've been growing vegetables in my grandparents basement so they have fresh veggies all year but I've never been successful with tomatos. So I'm upping my grow lights and going for it again this year. I watch you're videos all the time and with that I want to say thank you so much for teaching us you're knowledge. keep it up brother! I just hope I can be a quarter as good as you at growing.

This would work fantastic for folks like Myself that see 6-8 months of winter per year

Definitely in, Brian! I will do this too, can only imagine doing this with your guidance. I'm inviting friends to do it with me too.

I’m thankful you went through this methodically, I’m looking into this very thing myself. Growing microgreens, starting my seeds early indoors before coldframing in the early spring, or growing veggies in the late fall/winter. My birthday is this month so I’m hoping to buy a 2x4, multi-shelf setup for my basement here in Virginia.

Looking forward to seeing the progress. I live in Ontario, Canada up on Lake Huron so our growing season is pretty much May to the end of September early October. A set up like this just might be something I would invest in if it works.

I would love to have tomatoes during the winter but this is way past my budget. Very interested in following along though. Maybe after this experiment you could explore lower cost methods to get the same results using the grow lights we have on hand. Thanks - love your videos!

I am very interested in seeing how this works. I may do it in my next off season.

It truly sounds like a positive direction for us in zone 8. Being able to follow the development is much appreciated.

I grow over 15 types of greens indoors now. I grow dwarf tomatoes indoors. I started dwarf Moringa trees, potatoes and dwarf Zucchini. I am planning to grow lot of dwarf tomatoes. Even potatoes to start. I am having fun experimenting. Nice video..

Hello, I am here in Michigan in the suburbs, 15 minuets out of Detroit, I am 61 and will be starting a new garden with my sons help. At one time my yard was full of plants and vegetables but in 2005 I had 3 heart attacks and lost all interest in everything. Now with being home with everyone else during the Corona Virus and with lots of encouragement from my son I am planning out my garden. Oddly as I type this your episode about your Aneurysm update is on. WOW. we are both survivors. I have been binge watching all your KZfaq videos so you have encouraged me to start living a better life than sitting in my room. I am also thinking about doing some videos on my garden progress. I will keep you in my prayers and thank you so much for all the time you have put into your videos. Melinda

I grow tomatoes (16+ plants so far) under 2 grow lights all year. I purchased (2) SF2000 lights and (2) Maxisun pb2000 lights. I use the SF2000s to grow tomatoes/hot peppers/green peppers/basil/thyme. The SF2000 lights are excellent performing led lights and absolutely grows tomatoes all year, seed to fruit in an area approx. 2 ft x 4 ft. Recently, the price has dropped significantly so you can pick up an SF2000 for approx. 269. The Maxisun is cheaper. Over the last month, the yield is about 12 - 25 tomatoes per week for these16 tomato plants.

Putting a fan on oscillate will help move air around, and will help strengthen the stalks as it grows. indoor growing has no wind lol.

I would love to hear more about indoor gardening. Love that kind of gardening!

Birmingham, AL I have this exact light running for the first time and I and just bought my second sf2000. Just germinated my first batch of tomato seeds (Kelloggs Bkfast & Cherokee Purple, and VF Romas). I can already tell that my first shoots are not getting ‘leggy’ as my seedlings did last year under other Agrolite fixtures. Planning to continue my determinate Romas going indoors under the sf2000. Awesome lights. Love the dimmer capability. Not too much heat put off, just enough to keep the plants around 78 degrees. Bomb! Josh

I love your table of contents along the bottom, I've never seen someone do that before and it's a great idea!

Brian: Looking forward to seeing how this works. I once has my own greenhouse and miss going out to it in the middle of an Oregon winter to get some light and tend my plants. This looks like it would give you the ability to turn any room in the house into a greenhouse.

I started all of my seedling this year and if you are interested I can send you pics of everything I started and will be putting in the ground this weekend. I didn't have any seed die or not start. I got my seeds from baker and am having fantastic results in y two grow tents. I have a lot of butter crunch and it's doing fantastic also. I am going to grow Tomatoes inside all the way to production. I'm glad to see you starting this. I put some cheap plastic shelves ,$20 per setup and I have to have at least 60 plants per tent. Also I have learned so much from you and have been gardening for many years. Thank you!

I’m in! I’ve been getting melancholy already thinking about frost coming in about 4-6 weeks away and how I can make my growing season longer! Started researching grow tents and here I am! Lol I’ll have everything I need to go for the starting of September to continue my season then! Wish me luck that my husband isn’t to mad with me ordering grow tent, lights etc etc! 😉😂🤷🏻‍♀️

it looks like a nice unit

I totally need that tropical seating area in my yard! Beautiful.

I look forward to watching the progress 😊

I'm actually already using a spider farmer light in a 2×2 tent with a smaller light that only cost under a hundred dollars but still the quality of the light is basically unbelievable. I've always used T5 lights and when I switched to the spider farmer I was definitely amazed when I turned it on and how bright it was. I've been using it now for a couple of grows and still amazed with the quality and the outcome of my plants. I will be upgrading soon to a bigger tent and bigger light and will definitely be always using the spider farmer light.

I started the same basic setup a few months ago using a Mars Hydro Tent and Light and the results were a complete disaster so I'm interested in how your setup turned out. We returned the Mars Hydro light and have been looking for a replacement, so this one looks pretty good. Friends of ours shared your channel with us and it has completely changed how we manage our garden and greenhouse. Thanks....

Love the idea,I live where we have snow for about 4 months of the year. This year we invested in a greenhouse hoping to have fresh veggies this winter too!..I am so hopeful !

Looking forward for the updates.

Major cool. This seems like an answer to so many prayers..

First season for me. Grew some awesome Better Boy tomatos, bell peppers & banana peppers. I seriously needed it such good therapy during what's going on. Its August now and I'm starting to get sad that the growing season is coming to an end in the NE. I thought about an indoor garden in my spare bedroom, but thought it might be to expensive and complicated plus dirty lol. Ty so much for this video! I'm definitely going to do this.

Very excited to see how well this works!!

I'll be watching, too. I have a small Harbor Freight greenhouse, heated and has both LED and Fluorescents. Raised beds, and auto watered just short of right amount, so I can hand water what's needed on hot days. Already experienced too wet 1st attempt. I tried several of the old traditional tomatoes, but they couldn't stand up to the pests, so I've settled on the two that do survive best here. Better Boy for the long run, and Celebrity for the short haul and cool season. I'm also trying the Mortgage Lifter for 1st time, am amazed at its growth. It exudes energy just looking at it, and it has several marble size mators among the blooms. I have high hopes for it. I watched your live show Sunday, and saw we were both wearing a flannel shirt for the cool SoCal weather that day. #;o)

I live in Indiana and may look to do this in the Fall. I have been wanting to grow in doors year round since we only get about 4 months of grow time for tomatoes. Thank you so much for sharing!!

Brian: "Today I'm going to show you how to harvest tomatoes 12 months out of the year. Sounds too good to be true?" Rain: "Yes." :) I would LOVE to have fresh lettuce, tomatoes and basil all year round! Gosh I wish I had the funds right now to buy a grow light. Good luck Brian and I can't wait to see your results.

Nice! not too sure this was meant for tomatoes *cough* but cool :)

This looks fantastic. I can'[t wait to see how the tomatoes come out!

Cool. I have an hydroponic aero garden which does well inside. I’ve started some seeds inside in some trays with the window light. It will be interesting to see how these grow lights in the tent work.

I am doing a grow like this, useing the cheapest alibaba lights i could find, running 2 rooms 1 for salad and herbs and 1 for growing tomatos, chilli, eggplants and strawberrys. Living in norway, our season is to short and this is tje way to go i beilve. I run 2 lights of 240w in both rooms, playing White the output to determine the henging height as they almost killed my plants when i ran them at 280w(light are dimable) lowered them to 150w and lowered the lights aswell as alot of plants where reaching for the lights. For the last weeks i lowered it to 100w as my chilli plant seems to get to much light and the leefs are curling, on the other hand it's branching out well and putting on lots of flowers and the first chillis are growing well. Thanks for your uploads, seen a few of them now and it has helped me. Will be fun to follow this and see how your lights do, i was lokking at the spider farmer but i liked the ones i got better for the buck. The lights i am happy whit having 4 uv and 4 ir 2 rows of red and 10 rows white light, dimable from 100w to 280w. Next up is cucumber, will be fun to see how they react.

This would be so great for here in Ohio. I'm curious how the taste and texture of your tomatoes will be. I'm looking forward to more updates.

I have a unique set up I am trying. I placed a vertical grow garden “grow up hydrogro” in my 2x2 Growlabs tent. I have 2 squash DWC started Kratky but just put some oxygen on them. Lastly using Sun Blaze T5 . Wanted leds but haven’t had any problems so far. Great video, I will be following along.

Definitely want to stay with you on this!

I have this light! Works great! Im not growing tomatoes though! 🤪

Oh....my husband is buying me a 2'x2' LED grow light system, from Amazon for $29.99. Awesome!

I can't wait to catch up. I just started some heirloom tomatoes and some peppers in a grow tent because we have a puppy that will not leave my raised beds alone.

I'm so jealous 🥰!! Tho like you said I can grow lettuce inside with just cheap little lights LED lights of almost any kind and I do, hydroponically. But to get fabulous vegetables inside you definitely need a nice light like that. I can't afford to grow along with you but I'll definitely be watching for more videos on it.

I can't wait for your updates

Yes this is definitely something I’m interested in doing. I can’t wait to see how it works out. I am a food preserver person so I would like to grow sand Marzano‘s for my own sauce. Right now I have them growing outside in my garden which is in the very point of the state of South Carolina. Thus far they are not doing the best. Because those San Marzano‘s are not hybrids in any way shape or form. I have a round 14 plants. So in the end we’ll see how many pounds of San Marzano’s I get off of each plant. I came here looking for somebody doing this because I would like to grow eight of them indoors pretty much continuously. Excited to see how this all works out since you are actually growing San Marino tomatoes.

Thanks for the video! Where I live we have great weather but so much shade, so I’m looking to supplement it / grow indoor instead

I'm in Ohio. I like your idea, so I'm going to try to grow indoors, too! We still haven't been able to plant our tomatoes because it still freezes at night! Last night, even! Cheers!

I have almost same set up but indica and sativa variety plants in mine. That light I like it. Nice video.

Most excellent, thanks!

Awesome, I just put some lights on my compare list on Amazon to put inside a grow tent my son is giving me. I want to grow a Meyers Lemon and an orange tree but, I live in Michigan so I will need something for the winter months to keep them happy.

I love garden fresh tomatoes and the thought of having them year round is too much to resist

Interested in following and maybe buying at a later date!!! My wife loves salads😁

I am real interested in this but will wait for the taste test before committing. Great video

I would love to see your progress with this. I can’t do it now, but this might be just what I’m looking for to start seedlings in spring and continue to grow something through the winter. It could be a fall purchase for me. Very nice setup.

I am going to start seeds but will be putting them in my green house and we can see the difference.

Just want to make a helpful note. I tried an experiment a few years back and had beautiful tomato plants but no fruit. After a lot of research I had almost given up but found humidity can affect pollinization. If the humidity is too high the grains of pollen will not self pollinate. Now I used a HID which generates a lot of heat and that might make a difference.

I would love to see updates

I bet no one can put their tent cover on the same way twice… lol I think I just got lucky 🐸 thanks for the vid

i started an experiment 2 weeks ago by using 9 led grow light bulbs, some are full spectrum, some are red and or blue, also used is a light meter so i know where to position lights and 6 home depot and lowes buckets, zero sun light 4000 feet up in the sierra nevada mountsins in central california where it has its own season at this height, i planted from seed broccoli, tomato, radish, spinach, lettuce, beet root, peas and other beans, carrot, i think 1 cauliflower and 1 cabbage but forgot, strawberry and 4 store bought tomato plants -beef steak and some other, all have germinated and growing so much faster than the seedlings outside that were planted a few weeks earlier than indoors, although a different setup, i would be willing to share results as and when needed if your interested

O thank you. This is so exciting. Been thinking of getting one of these. I’ll let u know if I can acquire one. Would love to do this journey with you. ❤️.

Hi yes I have decided to give this a go and I’m ordering my grow tent today, quite exciting! I reckon with our usual summer weather I can justify the cost! Thanks for idea, never knew such a thing existed! Fiona N Ireland 🍅 🍅 🍅

Looks like a fantastic system but hard to justify the expense, although it would be great to have fresh tomatoes in Minnesota in the wintertime!!! It will be fun to follow your experiment!

Love it, would like to try it, thank you!

I have something like that that started, same type set up but a little more advanced. Late July in Arizona, growing bell peppers, onions, green beans growing up a scrog net and carrots growing in clear 2gal cheese ball container. Proper light, air circulation and humidity control. Love your videos....reach out.

Excellent video & yep I'm joking along with the grow. I have 8 different varieties of tomatoes & have just launched them under the sf light. Greetings from South Australia too btw & thank you from a new sub

Im interested in seeing how you get the tomato plant to grow up. I have a tomato plant in my tent as well as a watermelon and I know it's going to get out of control. Thank you!

Hello Bryan. I noticed that when you move tomato plant in to 5 gallon bucket the soil is halfway. Do you add soil later and remove lower leafs of tomato plant?

Would be interesting to add Watt meter on the input to that, even though LED's have excellent efficacy, that's a lot of light on for a lot of time. Seeing as you are in Cali, you'd have the sun to run in on a solar system easily, might be worth considering for a little extra. Sadly the solar set up isn't really possible where I am, and all the growing I do is inside, always been tempted to building something like this, so keen to see how it turns out.

I noticed that the grow-tent is the perfect size for the Smart Pots. 🌱

howdo you pollinate indoors?

Thank you !!!!

It looks great the same as I use but a fan in my opinion is a must to keep the air fresh and to avoid mould etc.

I’m so excited to see if this works. I’m in San Antonio Tx and it really gets hot here

Yes, I will follow along.

Very interested in your next light video as a comparison to the Spider Farmer....before I pull the trigger.

That looks like a really efficient, thoughtful, and durable indoor growing unit. It will be interesting to see how it works. Someone mentioned they wanted to know how to control ants. I read about peppermint herb years ago and tried it where I had a problem with ants. Using peppermint in my garden has always been successful. Thank you for sharing. Stay safe. Blessings

Really interested in the updates, I live in the north of the UK and although we get long daylight hours often our summers are cool and not very bight!

That grow light looks like it’s going to work really well for you. Looking forward to the updates. Too bad it’s so expensive, I’ve been wanting a grow light, but not at that price lol

Keep us updated please. Good stuff

That looks very interesting1

This is a little too pricey for my budget BUUUUUT, for those of us with white fly, blight and other disease and fungal issues, this might also save you money on organic pesticides and anti-fungals. I’d love to have this product to be able to grow cool weather crops all year round. In south Florida where it gets up in the 100’s during the summer, not to mention Hurricanes, this would be a blessing. Also something else that comes to mind, if you lose power, you can hook it up to a portable generator or even solar power if you have that capability. Brian, as usual, great video sir!!

Has there been an update? Dying to find out how well this works.

I just started using a tent and LEDs and I'm off to a good start. Im focused on micro greens. The holes are for vents and fans. You need to keep that air moving or you will have mold. I lost my first tray, an inline fan fixed it.

I have 2x spider farmer 1000 inside a 2 chamber grow tent. One for germination at half power and 6in above the top of the seed tray. one for first transplant out of the little trays into 4inch pots at 18in. I've noticed that for the seedlings the light works well. I bring seedlings outside for a bit of full sun. I haven't had any leaf burn issues. The 4in pots with 2-6in plants stay out all day and come in at night. ( pest protection) all day sun and zero issues with wilt or color change.

try -4F and a foot of snow for 6 months... :( So looking forward to indoor growing!

Please keep us posted on this. I REALLY, wanna do grow light this season and am looking to invest in one. In climate 5a

Thinking about something like this myself for the basement. Looks like it could be about the right size for what I need. Very interested in seeing the performance, I have a small full spectrum led grow light I am using to start seedlings but isn't stong enough for growing to production stage. Since we have cold winters here in the midwest it would be great to have fresh produce in the winter as well.

Hey Brian! Have you found a good website that will give us a solid number on how many u/mols or the DLI of tomato seedlings or any seedling needs right after germination, being moved into the light as part of the Veg stage? Ultimately, I know it is about the specific DLI requirements of each plant, and the DLI can be achieved by manipulating the u/mols level applied over any given a period of time.I have found information on the Flowering stage, being roughly 25-40 u/mols over 12 hours, but the Veg stage I seem to have more trouble finding.

Love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We want to grow tomatoes in our basement. Please keep my husband and I updated on this. We are interested in this setup. Where did you get your San marzono tomato plant?Would love to grow those!!!

How cool!

Yes please! More videos about this. I want to join the experiment. I’ll be looking for the right grow light for me and hope to get started as soon as it arrives. I juice a lot and am looking for a way to grow certain veggies year round - I live in zone 7a

Any updates on this? I really want to see if I can grow tomatoes in my garage.