April 10, 2023
There’s no easier, cheaper, and more effective way to start growing vegetable, flower, and herb seeds indoors than with simple, inexpensive LED shop lights. In fact, it’s an absolute game changer when it comes to growing healthy transplants for your garden and flower beds!
Many gardeners shy away from sowing seeds indoors. Maybe it’s because they tried to grow seedlings on windowsills in the past. Or, they think it might be too time-consuming and require a significant investment in special grow lights.
But that’s not the case when using regular LED grow lights! Not only do they grow incredibly strong and healthy seedlings and transplants, but they do so with little to no initial investment in lights, nor the cost of operating them.
Standard LED bulbs typically emit more light and have a wider range of colors than standard incandescent or fluorescent lights. While general-purpose LED lighting emits white light, grow lights produce more of the red and blue spectrum, which is ideal for stimulating photosynthesis in plants. Also, when it comes to energy efficiency, grow lights tend to use less energy than traditional lighting solutions like fluorescent tubes or high-intensity discharge lamps commonly found in commercial settings.
When choosing the right LED light fixture for your plant, you should consider some important aspects, such as the specific needs of the plant species, the size and shape of the area that needs to be covered, and any other features that might make installation easier or improve performance, such as Programmable timer or adjustable brightness level. When looking at LED options designed for growing, keep in mind that higher wattage doesn’t always mean better results. It’s all about delivering the right type and amount of light for your particular setup!
Spectrum King 600W LED LowPro Flower
Features:
The Spectrum King LED grow light is a 660W grow light system with an efficiency equivalent to a 1000W LED. The grow light system is designed for vertical shelving solutions; you mount the lights 3 inches from the plants. Grow lights offer a 4X4 footprint. It offers 141.57 efficacy and a lumen output of 102,000 lumens. LED grow lights feel like plants are getting closer to the sun. The planting system is designed for a 3" tall vertical racking solution. The LED grow light system is the shortest and brightest LED grow light system on the market. The LEDs are rated at 50,000 hours to ensure long life. So don’t worry about spending unnecessarily on grow light fixtures.
Features:
The Jungle LED grow light advanced LED system was designed to be efficient and easy-to-install right out of the box. With a variety of power cord length options, whether you are looking to mount the LED driver on the side of a rack or on the fixture The Jungle G6/630W comes with simple snap-lock connectors that make reconnecting cables quick and swift. The Jungle LED system retains an IP65 wet-location rating along with its corrosion resistance build will accommodate itself in your grow space with minimal limitations. The light intensity can be freely controlled and adjusted outside the planting tent without entering. Put it on hand, easy to operate. The driver outside the tent can reduce heat.
To germinate and grow vegetable and flower seeds, special lighting is not required at all. While expensive grow lights will get your seedlings growing, they can be overkill. They cost unnecessary light bills, and the energy needed to power the lights.
Windowsills are not the answer to growing vegetable and flower seeds. Distant light creates fragile stems and slender, slender plants.
Easily costing $100 to $200 or more to purchase, grow lights and indoor plant growing systems can be an expensive investment. Especially when you realize that they can also use a lot of energy to run them!
How about simply planting seedlings in a sunny window? Unfortunately, it turns out that windows are not the best place for seedlings to grow either.
The sunlight filtered through the windows is too far away for the seedlings to grow. Sunlight works well in the garden because the seedlings can soak up the full spectrum of sunlight. All the way from east to west. But in a window, the seedlings can only absorb limited sunlight from the same direction.
The sill spectrum causes the seedlings to grow spindly and weak. They do this because they’re trying to reach for a distant light. That’s why if you’ve ever grown seedlings on a windowsill, you’ve ended up with long, skinny plants that are slender and badly bowed into the light.
If you are trying to grow plants indoors, LED grow lights are a good choice as they are energy efficient and provide a suitable light source for photosynthesis.
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