Posts tagged Grow Lights
LED Grow Rooms & Growth Chambers Setup
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Suitable grow lights is an important aspect of the hydroponic plant cultivation process. Apart from water, vitamins and minerals, accurate amounts of lighting are very essential. LED light is one of the important hydroponic equipments and a very good resource of artificial light for your plants. LED grow lights are designed to stimulate photosynthesis by supplying light in the frequencies that plants primarily use for this biological process.
LED lighting technology has become popular because of the fact that it consumes less than 210 watts of electricity. These lights are usually placed on a timer so that the plants receive an optimal amount (more…)
Hydroponics Crops Growing Under T-5 and LED Grow Lights
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Hydroponic plants require a healthy light source to produce their own food for growth. Since most hydroponic growers prefer their garden to be built indoor, grow lights play an important role. Hydroponic grow lights come in a variety of types that include full-spectrum fluorescent bulbs, metal halide grow lamps, high pressure sodium lights, and high-intensity LED grow lights. Among them, T5 fluorescent lights and LED are designed to support bigger growth with improved quality bulbs.
For T5 lights, the letter ‘T’ indicates the shape of the bulb (tubular) and the number after the ‘T’ represents the diameter of the bulb. These lights have a reflector which focuses the light directly to your plants by supplying 3 times more light. The structure of a four foot high T5 lamps, produce 5000 lumens each and (more…)
Hydroponics Indoor Grow Room Protection In Winter
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Winter has arrived and now is the time to strategize and protect your indoor hydroponics grow room from the influence of dropping temperature. During winter, the main difficulty you face is that your indoor grow room is warmer towards the ceiling and colder near the ground level. This can kill your hydroponic plants or cause diseases and stress. To protect your plants, it is important that you ensure proper air circulation inside your grow room. If your indoor grow room is not well protected in cold weather, the low temperature would give fungi, pests and disease causing pathogens a good environment to thrive (more…)
Indoor Gardening Grow Lights
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If you’re an ardent gardener and want to see your garden flourishing with good healthy plants, then you must provide them with their basic needs—food, water, climate, and light. Light is the most commonly overlooked factor that restricts plant growth. In outdoor gardening, light is not a problem for growers because nature provides balanced light intensity for healthy plant growth. However, it is the sole responsibility of the gardener to furnish adequate light of correct spectrum in indoor gardening. Even if you provide the best hydroponic nutrients or soil fertilizers to your indoor garden plants, but fail to provide enough light, your plants might hardly grow. (more…)
Indoor Gardening : Fluorescent Grow Lights
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Plants need energy to grow and this energy comes from sunlight in an outdoor home garden but grow lights are must if you’re scheduling for indoor gardening. Two basic and most vital plant processes, transpiration and photosynthesis, require light. Apart from these, light also affects various other processes like flowering, seed germination, pigment production, and certain growth phases of plant life.
It is essential to pick your grow lights wisely while starting with indoor gardening. Hydroponic grow lights come in various varieties like incandescent, fluorescent, and high-intensity discharge lights. Fluorescent grow lights are very popular amongst indoor gardeners because of their inexpensiveness, easy availability, and versatility in size, color spectrum, and low heat output.
Technological advancement has changed the face of fluorescent lights, which earlier weren’t considered as good as the other two lights. Whether you’re growing seedlings in a stacked grow cabinet or cultivating prized plantings and clones, you can be (more…)
