January 30, 2012 – 2:56 pm
Add a reflector to get your CFL grow light working at its optimal. Reflectors are almost as important as your choice of grow light. A good reflector will concentrate the light rays the grow light emits down towards the plants. If you do not use a reflector, you could waste up to 40% of the light you get. Studies show that mounting a light horizontally with a reflector above greatly improves the amount of light that plants get. Those studies looked at other options like vertical mounting and not using one of these units at all. Nothing worked as well as using the bulb in the horizontal position with a reflector.
January 2, 2012 – 3:05 pm
You will find a ton of options in the grow light market. Fluorescent lights are a popular option for many reasons. When compared to other forms of light, these lights are very cool to operate. For example, a high pressure sodium lamp can run as hot as 2000°F. In contrast, a CFL grow bulb will most likely be cool enough to handle when lit. This means it is safer to have in the house. You will also not need to worry about putting in a cooling system to deal with the heat given off by some bulbs. Too much heat will cook plants in the pots.
November 28, 2011 – 2:31 pm
The first tip for selecting a full spectrum light bulb is to understand the benefits of full spectrum light in different situations. In what type of situation do you want to use a full spectrum light bulb? They are quite useful for growing seedlings in late winter or keeping plants alive of the cold season. Artists like full spectrum light in order to get true colors when working in places without natural light. The light is useful in paint stores for workers to get a true color match. These light bulbs have many other uses as well. One example is putting a 5000K CFL in a lamp over the winter for a bit of phototherapy.
November 21, 2011 – 1:55 pm
What is an LED grow panel? These panels contain multiple LED lights to provide necessary lighting for indoor plant growth. Most of these panels are not the typical white light you see in fluorescent and incandescent lamps. They contain a mixture of blue and red light bulbs. Blue and red light are essential components of plant growth. In fact, the yellow and green parts of the spectrum are not essential for plant growth. Therefore, with a panel that contains only red and blue spectrum, you can get extremely healthy indoor growth on plants. Generally, the proportion is 2 to 1 with more red lights than blue.
November 7, 2011 – 2:18 pm
Light is very important for plant health. As you learned
in basic science classes, plants use a process known as photosynthesis to
convert carbon dioxide to organic compounds like sugar using the energy gained
from sunlight. However, if you had paid attention, you would have also learned
that there are different waves in a beam of light. Visible light consists of
the colors from red to violet on the light scale. Plants actually use visible
light as well as infrared and ultraviolet to remain healthy and hardy. Each
part of the spectrum is important. For indoor gardens, many use a full spectrum
LED to mimic this full spectrum of light.
October 31, 2011 – 11:18 pm
One common myth is that if you use tough love on your
young plants, they will somehow benefit. To get the best start, plants need the
nutrients, light, and water necessary to make them grow good leaf structure,
height, and root system. Without the proper combination of these, you will have
a plant that is not in optimal shape to face the outdoors. You need to think
about all of these factors when setting up your growth system. When selecting a
light source, for example, you need to get a full spectrum light bulb. You
consider CFL bulbs 6500K. They provide light close to natural light, but use
energy efficiently.
October 24, 2011 – 4:36 pm
You want to put some annual flowers and vegetables out.
Yet, you know in order to get the best yield you need to start the seeds before
the frost goes away. A grow light system will make this easier. You can setup a
growing area in your home, basement, or other space. You will use a grow light
to provide light and heat to the plants as they begin their growing. You could
use something like a 600 watt HPS grow light, for example. It provides a good
supplement to natural light since it provides light from the orange part of the
spectrum as opposed to the bluer light you get from winter’s sunlight.
October 17, 2011 – 7:06 pm
Standard HPS lamps have more light on the red end of the
spectrum than on the blue end of the spectrum. If you remember from science
class, light is a spectrum of colors. The colors range from infrared on one end
to ultraviolet on the other end. All parts of the spectrum are necessary for
healthy plant growth. Artificial lights use a number of technologies to try to
mimic natural light. A standard HPS bulb uses sodium under high pressure to
create light. Naturally, this type of lamp tends to be on the red to orange end
of the scale. It is good for flowering, but not leaf growth. However, with the
new Hortilux 250, that problem is no longer an issue.
October 10, 2011 – 2:13 pm
Hydroponics has been around for centuries. It began with
the work of Francis Bacon in the early part of the 1600s. Ever since his work
came out in a book, many others have been trying their hands at growing plants
without soil. An innovation in the area of hydroponics was the development of
nutritional solutions that allowed plants to thrive without a soil or an inert
medium. That happened in the early part of the 20th century Modern
hydroponics continues to change and evolve as gardeners worldwide find out what
works and what does not work. Today, many utilize an AeroGarden bulb to help
their plants thrive.
October 3, 2011 – 3:18 pm
What is a water cooled grow light anyway? Grow lights are
those lights you suspend over plants indoors to give them the light they are
missing from being inside. Many types of grow lights get quite hot. In fact,
some can cause severe burns if you touch the bulbs directly. In order to
regulate the heat on the light, some choose to install a dedicated cooling unit
that they connect to the lights. A water cooled light avoids that need. The
water absorbs the heat and draws it away from the lamp. This makes the grow
room much cooler and easier to handle.
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