ECO Farm ECOM Bluspec 650W LED Grow Light with Samsung LM301B and Cree Chip VS Iluminar iLogic 8 630 Watt LED Grow Light

Are you looking for the best LED grow lights for indoor plants? Indoor gardening is a fun and exciting venture but it can get messy when you don’t invest in quality inputs. We all understand that grow rooms require light which facilitates the growth of plants in an artificial environment.

Many gardeners often experience challenges when it comes to selecting the best LED grow lights for indoor plants. There are hundreds of LED grow lights for sale in the market to choose from.

As a rule of thumb, you should always go for the best LED grow lights that are of high quality, energy efficient, and affordable.

What are LED Grow Lights?

There are various options for indoor garden lighting, but no others offer the energy efficiency and overall benefits to plant growth that LED grow lights can offer. LED lighting wasn’t a viable option for indoor gardening until after 2014, when scientists finally developed a blue-spectrum LED. Until then indoor growers traditionally relied on two types of HID bulbs, High-Pressure Sodium (HPS) and Metal Halide (MH), which offered the necessary light for flowering and vegetative growth, respectively.

What are the benefits of LED grow lights? 

LED grow lights have proven to be the perfect choice for many gardeners due to their energy efficiency and lifespan.

Other additional benefits that comes with LED grow lights bulbs are;

They are smaller and they occupy less space

Less light intensity loss

Although LED grow lights have been proven to be of premium quality, different grow rooms have different light requirements. Therefore, it is important to have the following factors in mind so that you can be in a better position to select the best LED grow lights that suits your grow room requirements.

ECO Farm ECOM Bluspec 650W LED Grow Light with Samsung LM301B and Cree Chip

Features:

The ECO Farm grow light is equipped with Samsung LM301B and Cree Chip to ensure high-efficiency PPE 2.7umol/J, better heat dissipation, and long service life. Compared with old plant lights, the average PPFD is increased by 30%, and the yield and quality are increased by 50%. The most effective plant growth spectrum, better than HPS, MH, CMH, Inducton and Fluorescent in the same power test. An ideal spectrum suitable for vegetables and flowering stage. UV and IR can be controlled separately. UVIight maximizes the yield of trichomes and makes plants more resistant to pests and diseases. In this case, if an experienced grower uses it at the beginning of flowering, IR will induce the plant to bloom and increase the number of flowers. Using it during the last two weeks of the flowering period, ultraviolet light will increase the THC content in the plant. Finally, it is a fanless and zero-noise design, which is very quiet.

Efficacy:2.7umol/J 
AC Input Power:650W 
PPF:1715 umol/s
Grams Per Watt: up to 2.0
Lifetime: >50,000
Weight: 15kg
Coverage Footprint:
Veg: 4' x 4' area (Up to 7' x 7' area)
Flower: 4' x 4' area (1.2m x 1.2m)
Max: 5' x 5' area (1.5m x 1.5m)
Hanging Height : Flower: 6"-24"
Recommended for: Grow Tents, Grow Rooms, Commercial Grows.

Iluminar iLogic 8 630 Watt LED Grow Light

Features:

The 630W LED has a full spectrum array, specifically engineered for vegetative and flower cycles that require high μmol performance at a lower clearance to the canopy. Not only will this spectrum provide a more powerful and full spectrum for your plants, but the UV rays will also whip out any trace of powdery mildew that can be detrimental to healthy growth. Enhance trichome development increase yield with the state-of-the-art ILUMINAR iLogic8 UV+Far Red. Adding far-red to the light spectrum can increase leaf size, enabling plants to capture more light and potentially increase growth. Therefore, over time, far-red radiation can indirectly increase growth. Enjoy all the benefits of full spectrum & UV+Far-Red lighting without sacrificing efficiency. The iLogic™8 LED family delivers deep, penetrating light intensity along with industry-leading uniformity over a square 4’ x 4’ footprint.

Input Power: Smart Sensing™ 100V to 277V
Minimum Mounting Height: 8”-12” to top of Canopy
Emitter Cooling: Passive / Extruded Case
Dimming: 0–10V Controllable
Light Distribution:120º
Waterproof Rating: IP66 for Damp/Wet Conditions
LED Lifespan (90% of Life): 50,000+ Hours
Height: 124.3mm / 4.9" 
Width: 1002mm / 39.4"
Length: 1064mm / 41.9"

How many plants can I grow under an LED grow light?

500 watt 8 sm., 4 med., 2 lg.

1,000 watt 12 sm., 6 med., 3 lg.

1,500 watt 16 sm., 8 med., 4 lg.

Small = 1 sq. ft. Medium = 2 sq. ft. Large = 4 sq. ft.

These are estimates based on industry averages. We always recommend calculating the actual needs of your garden. Allowing for slightly more light than you need will ensure optimal growth.

This is the million dollar question, right? How many plants can you get out of a grow lamp; maybe it’s more a question of how many lights you’ll need to reach your goals. To answer this question properly, we need to look at three characteristics. These three things will essentially be unique to every garden, and will be the ultimate arbiter in deciding how many plants you can grow per light.

System Design — This includes the type of light, the design of your indoor garden, and how much room you allowed for when building your garden. Is it a hydroponic system? Soil? Wall mounted or in buckets? Do you have large garden beds occupying tables in your garage, or do you have a climate controlled greenhouse that you grow out of?

Species and Size of the Plants — Obviously this is going to be a major factor. Growing petunias is different from growing watermelon, and that is different from growing tomatoes. The point is, selling yourself short and getting one 600w light may limit your ability to grow more than a few healthy plants at a time. It may be better to get more light than you need at the moment, if expansion or trying new plants is a possibility in your future.

Environmental Considerations — I don’t know about you, but I like to be prepared. Whenever I set out to build or fabricate something, I build it in my mind first in order to help realize tricky spots in the project. You might consider doing the same, as it can be frustrating to go to measure out where to hang your light because your plants are growing so well, only to learn that you can’t raise the light any higher. Thinking about any of the potentially troublesome areas in your garden, even writing them all out, can save you tons of trouble down the road

What are the light requirements of plants?

We all know that plants need light, right? In kindergarten we all put our seed in a dixie cup and place it in the windowsill. Add the other magical ingredient — water — and up comes the sprout, always moving towards the light.

Plants seem to instinctively “know” that without sunlight their growth will be stunted.

You can’t just use any light you find, however.

We’ve already covered some of the differences in the lighting options available to indoor gardeners, but how do we know which is better? First we need to know what makes light helpful to a plant in the first place. There are three factors that have substantial impact on how the light a plant receives will affect its growth. These factors are:

Light Quantity — Historically, light quality has been expressed in units called lumens. While useful to scientific research on light affecting human sight, the term did not accurately account for measuring the photon particles of light coming into contact with a plant. Botanists and horticulturists now prefer to use Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density (PPFD); an explicit measurement used to calculate the number of photons hitting a given surface — per sq. meter, per second.

A second term of value to plant science is the Daily Light Integral, which is simply a measurement that includes the photon density (PPFD) and the number of hours that a plant spends exposed to that rate of photon contact. Generally speaking, more light is required for flowering than for vegetativce growth.

Light Quality — As I mentioned earlier, not just any ‘ol light will do. We need special kinds of lights to grow plants. Why? When we talk about quality of light, particularly as plants determine it, we are really referring to spectrum — or color. All plants have photoreceptors that are triggered by photons of their respective spectrum entering the plant’s system. When taking light quality under consideration in your own project, ensure that your lights are either full-spectrum or that you have separate lamps to account for the spectrum of light needed at the different stages of growth.

Photoperiod (Light Duration) — The photoperiod is simply the amount of time the plants spend in the light or the dark. It can get a bit more complicated than that, however, as these light/dark cycles can be controlled to manipulate growth of indoor gardens. A popular example is found in applying large doses of light for 18–20 hours/day throughout the vegetative stage, then cutting the light down to ~12 hours or so to trigger the flowering stage. This is known as photoperiodism and is used to optimize growth and yields.

Conclusion

Your plants are living beings just as you are. You wouldn’t mind someone taking you to an all-you-can-it buffet so why not do the same for your plants. Choose wisely, see what our requirements are. If it is a bigger operation or a business project, you will have to spend that extra buck. Anyway, we hope this was a helpful guide. We wish you all the luck in finding the best LED grow light for cannabis.

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