5 Simple Guidelines To Know Before Buying Grow Lights
With so many types of grow lights and systems available, it can be overwhelming to figure out which one will best suit your needs. Here’s a guide to our most popular grow light lines, including their features and the benefits they provide.
Asking yourself these questions before buying grow lights:
- Consider What You`Re Going To Grow
- Choosing The Right Type Of LED Grow Light
- Taking Into Account The Size Of The Grow Space
- The Qualities Of The Best LED Lights
- Pick Grow Lights That Are Lower Maintenance
Think carefully about these questions first, the nutrients you will ultimately extract from cannabis, and determine the size of the planting area according to your own family environment, make sure that each question has a clear answer.
Consider What You`Re Going To Grow
The first thing to do when choosing LED grow lights is to consider the crop you`ll be using them on. All products available on the market work for getting the plant to the flowering stage but certain ones are better suited for certain crops. The AdvancedLED diamond series is suitable for almost any crop and specifically good for growing cannabis on a full cycle. The specific models include the Diamond Series XML, the Diamond Series XTE and the Diamond Series EX-VEG. The specific wattage you should choose depends on how many plants you want to grow and the grow space itself.
Choosing The Right Type Of LED Grow Light
Making the best choice means that you have all the information and option available. After talking about how different lights are suitable for growing different crops it`s time to delve deeper into the types of grow lights.
For growing cannabis from a seed and nurturing it through to the flowering stage the best way is to get a full cycle LED light. However, you should keep in mind that in some cases you`ll only have to use it for the vegetative and blooming stages.
Grow lights for cannabis and specifically those that aid the plant during the flowering stage are available in different models, differing in the number of channel lights. A single channel light features on and off options, whereas the 2 channel models feature separate vegetative and bloom modes along with programming options, which can be found in all of the high-end AdvancedLED models. These models can be programmed with different light schedules to best cater to the plant`s need without you having to do it manually. Also, the light spectrum is customizable in order to provide light in the correct spectrum for the given growth phase. This is the latest stage in the development of high-end LED grow lights equipment that is setting the standard for the whole industry.
Another aspect in which lights differ is shape. There are models shaped as panels, bars, saucers and lightbulbs, suitable for every need depending on the grow space and area, which leads us to the next important question.
Taking Into Account The Size Of The Grow Space
In LED lighting bigger wattage doesn`t automatically translate into a bigger area coverage, as it is with regular HID, MH and HPS lights, but it can still serve as a good rough estimate. However, the most accurate metrics are the so called Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density (PPFD) and the Daily Light Integral (DLI) that serve to determine the number of lights to the power of lights ratio, but for simplicity and coherence we`ll use wattage as the metric to determine the light coverage area.
Plants and especially cannabis need most lighting during the flowering stage, so we`ll be using that as an estimate of how much area needs to be covered. A standard LED grow light must use more than 32 watts per square foot of grow space, but for optimum results it should be over 50 watts, up to 80 watts.
Consult with the following bullet points if you need a quick guide for calculating how many watts you need for a given grow area.
1 by 1 – 32 watts
2 by 2 – 128 watts
3 by 3 – 288 watts
4 by 4 – 512 watts
6 by 6 – 1152 watts
The Qualities Of The Best LED Lights
When shopping for LED grow lights, our experts recommend looking for products that have the following qualities:
High-Class Semiconducting Chip
This is the heart of any LED light and as such it needs to be of good quality. The chip converts electricity into light and affects the wavelength, so an otherwise good product that uses a poor quality chip is still not good. When making a purchase look for models that use at least 3 watt chips, anything less than that won`t provide the necessary luminosity.
Low Heat Output
LED grow lights with low heat output provide the best value in two essential ways:
Since lights that generate little heat prevent the environment from becoming too hot, the grow space requires less cooling than spaces where high heat output LED lights are in use.
High heat output LED lights tend to fade and burnout more quickly than cooler LED lights that reduce both replacement costs and the time spent installing the new lights.
At Advanced LED Lights, we do not develop LED lights that are overdriven. Instead, our team develops highly rated LED grow lights that optimize the health and beauty of your plants. All our LED lights generate less heat, less maintenance, and a longer life than other lesser quality products.
Easily Used
Since your time is valuable, the LED grows lights you choose need to be easily installed. In addition, you should be able to adjust the height of the lights quickly and simply, as well as their color ad intensity.
The Diamond Series, the Diamond Series XML, the Diamond Series XTE, and the Diamond Series EX-VEG are ready to go right out of the box. All feature easy-to-use color and intensity controls for your convenience.
Pick Grow Lights That Are Lower Maintenance
The lights we manufacture are plug-n-play (plug it in and walk away) and require no maintenance other than ensuring they are mounted properly, and adjusting the height as your plants grow. LED lights do not require replacement ‘bulbs’ like typical HPS and Metal Halide. Also, LED chips don’t dim throughout their lifetime and will produce the same amount of light for, as said before, at least 50,000 hours. They can literally last a lifetime of growing
The Grower's Choice ROI-680 LED grow light is inspired by a collaboration between two of the most prominent and respected companies in the indoor grow lighting industry: TSL Horti Tech and Growers Choice.
These two brands have come together to combine their years of experience and innovation in grow lighting to create this high performance, cost effective, efficient lighting solution for commercial growing.
Eco Farm Commercial Indoor LED grow light uses our custom designed full-spectrum high efficiency 1560 LM301B white chips+36 Osram 660nm Red chips.
50W Enhanced Bar with UV(25W) and Far red(25W) optional.
Far-red light causes plants to stretch out and reduces the amount of chlorophyll (which is essential for plant growth) in leaves. When used for a short period, far-red light can stimulate flowering.
UV-B can induces a range of strong morphological effects in plants, including leaf thickness, leaf discoloration, cotyledon curling, inhibition of hypocotyl growth, stem and leaf elongation, axillary branching etc.
The Model-W is a high performance LED grow light for the horticulture cultivation. It is designed for high PPFD cultivation practices. Full spectrum design covers each critical phase of growth from vegetative to flowering. An independent Far Red 730nm channel is designed to target Phytochrome Far Red in photomorphogenic lighting applications. Base on research, introducing far-red light after the lights have been turned off can lengthen the dark period to encourage the flowering process.
Full Spectrum LED grow lights are getting increasingly more sophisticated and setting the new lighting standard for the horticultural industry. We hope that you`ve found the information useful and can now make a more informed decision. The market is saturated with many products and brands but we believe that quality makes itself visible.
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