This grow light works beautifully with my "bright indirect light" plants. I don't think this will work well for "full sun" plants, as my plants that require full sun are not thriving under this light, even though this lamp is incredibly bright. The timer is pretty easy to set up, but because it is not digital if you unplug it, you'll have to reset again. I think some folks are stating that they had issues setting up the timer because it is in a 24 hour military time format (0000-2359). If it's too complicated, you can easily use a digital or smart timer. My plants are doing well, and this was definitely a good investment for my little plant family.

I ordered this lighting system 9/24/24 for my citrus trees over the colder months. I live in MA so I had it set to the 8 hour timer starting around 5pm every evening to give the plants the extra lighting they need. Before bed every night I make sure the light turned on - as it has. Today, 12/29/24 I went in the spare room for my weekly watering of the trees and noticed the lights were blinking. I held the power button - nothing happened. I unplugged the light, waited 30 seconds then plugged back in. It flashed once then would not turn back on. I then inspected this product and was horrified to see the box had overheated at some point and burned which turned it brown. THANK THE STARS this did not start a fire!! Likely thanks to the fact I had it hanging off of the ground and the box wasn’t touching anything. I could be in a very different position right now. 1 star bc the product lasted a measly 3 months and also I could be homeless and dog less had a fire started.