Vita™ Grow Light

I have just unboxed and installed one of my 4 lights. Overall I am extremely satisfied with the customer service of Soltech, the 3000kelvin and 95 CRI as these two features were of the utmost importance to me in my decision making process. This 3000Kelvin is the desired level of ambient room brightness for all main living areas of a home and anything higher (4000kelvin +) is just ridiculously unnecessary for any rooms outside of a garage or utility room (laundry room). The bulb is less than 1lb and for those looking for damage free mounting due to renting or plaster and lath then this will be of great importance for you! I added pictures showing the weight of the bulb and I installed using a 3m 5lb adhesive with a 2lb hanging hook. As many know only time will tell if this will hold the weight. The other picture is of the bulb in a planter pot (ikea). I am anticipating drilling holes in these planter pots and using them as light shields… even with the shields the weight does not exceed 2lbs 🎉🍾.Now to the “could be better” part. For this price I would like to see Z-wave integration (not WiFi or Zigbee because these don’t work in older brick homes and suffer signal drop and WiFi interference more often than not. The Dimmable feature is also something I greatly wanted to integrated into my smart home set up. So I had to buy separate Z-wave dimmer outlets in order to fully automate and schedule the fading or dimming ability of the bulb to the actual hours of the sun. This is a great feature for many reasons but primarily it self automates to mimic sunrise and sunset and changes of daylight savings etc.. lastly it’s extremely helpful when using smart bulbs in my bedroom to have fading or dimming abilities as these features can be set and automated with alarms or simply to mimic local daylight sunrises and sunsets which I have found surprisingly pleasant to wake up to vs an alarm.

My dracaena trifasciata (snake plant) reliably throws out 2-3 new leaves every winter instead of summer because I don’t know. It was already under another grow lightbulb and was starting to grow its first leaf of the season…fast forward two weeks, and where one leaf was growing, a second has started (already the same size as the initial leaf), and on another rosette yet another blade has popped up. So I’m getting three leaves ASAP instead of waiting 4-5 months under its usual light. That’s likes warp speed for my plant of five years.Pros:-Probably is a broader spectrum as advertised-Light shines down/180 degrees from bulb instead of bottom and sides/270 degrees, so it’s less blinding by itself-Warmer light rather than cooler light looks “sunnier”Cons:-Heftier than expected, so I upgraded my pendant light hooks to accommodate-Three times more expensive than my previous grow lights (but I’m growing 3x the leaves?)-Tried it in a few fixtures thought the house out of curiosity, and it’s length made it stick out of most shadesOverall I like the look an performance of this light in my space.

I’ve tried many of the other most common grow bulbs out there and this one is by far superior. I’m actually seeing a ton of new growth on my plants and the color of the bulb is perfectly warm. I’m working on switching all my other bulbs to this one because it just doesn’t compare.