This isn't a question about growing cannabis, although if you have experience doing so indoors, your advice might be useful too.

Come mid to late October, I bring some plants indoors. It's a mix - aloes, lemon geraniums, a few coleus and hypoestes. In the past, my plants have mostly survived the long winter (mid-October to April here, given that some of these plants can't survive even a tiny bit of frost) although they tend to look a bit wan by spring, and seem very happy to get back outside when the night temperature isn't flirting with 0°C.

I've bought clip-on full-spectrum LEDs in the past, with mixed results. Always the kind that are on long adjustable strips. Some do not hold up well, and the individual bars fall apart within a few months. Others I still have.

I'm looking at the endless offerings from oddly named companies (Noibad, Toweboory, Qtittu, Garpsen, Wiaxulay - probably all from the same factory in Shenzhen) and my question is actually pretty simple, if you have experience with this. Are the ones sold in long bars better or worse than those constructed as a single flat panel? I am not able to hang a big panel from the ceiling, but there are some panels available on stands, which give an impression of better solidity, but who can tell from the Amazon pictures?

(And yes I know, Amazon, but you should see the scorching prices of similar items from local hardware chains in Canada.)