Hey everybody. Most of my trees came out of dormancy a few months ahead of schedule.  I'm looking for a decent but not too expensive grow light to keep them alive until the spring. I'm leaning toward LED and I need a light or a set of lights that can light up about a 5x5 area. Anyone have any recommendations as to products and/or vendors? I'm having a hard time finding relevant reviews online. Thanks!

Seriously?  For almost a decade of seeding and indoor growing, I've been using 4' dual-light fixtures that cost $9.75 at Home Depot.  Just add (2) Plant & Aquarium bulbs and you're good to go.

Home Depot's SKU on the light fixture is 419-234, you can order online or pick up in the store, they usually have pallets full of them over in the lighting section. The package is red and white, and trapezoid-shaped. It's made by Lithonia. Uses (2) 40w T12 (1/5" diameter) bulbs. The "Plant & Aquarium" style of bulbs supply appropriate light spectrum for plants.

You don't need to get fancy. 

Let me try and dig up some pics of my seeding and rooting rack.

Oh, I'm serious. Thanks for the advice.

Here are pics of my trusty growing rack in the basement.

I have everything tied to a regular timer like what you get in the lighting section ($12?).  If you have a ton of fixtures, you can just put the power strip on the timer and wire the fixtures to the power strip.

I do two light fixtures per rack.  They're on chains draped from eye-hooks, using cheapy chain and S-hooks from the hardware section.  This way I can keep the lights less than an inch off the top leaves, both for heat and light saturation.

I run my timer on 20 hours on, 4 hour off for veggie seedlings.  I run 18 on / 6 off for cuttings. 

Here are pictures.  If you need closeups of anything, let me know.  I'm happy to snap some off.  These are crappy Blackberry photos.

That's the set-up I used also, Jason. Worked great. I don't get the whole LED fad. Very expensive and won't at least plant the seeds for you. lol. I also used aluminum foil on the top and back wall to reflect towards the seedlings.