Find the Best Grow Light for You 2020

Growing plants and flowers is tricky enough outdoors. Maintaining the right amount of water and nutrients while protecting a garden from the elements is a balancing act. Many people turn to indoor gardens to avoid the challenging growing conditions of the winter or harsh environments. This route, however, brings its own set of challenges.

First and foremost, you are going to need some light. Grow lights provide the same energy to indoor plants that the sun brings to the outdoors. Without them, photosynthesis would be impossible and the plants would die. I’ve recently become interested in how to best grow my own indoor herb garden as a foray into year round freshness, and have explored grow lights as alternatives to natural window lighting.

LED grow lights are a wise choice.

Most LED lights are full spectrum.

This means you’re getting blue light, as well as red lights. These lights are at opposite sides of the spectrum of the light provided by the sun, and having these lights allows you to better duplicate the sun’s process.

In order to get the most out of your LED light, you need to find one that provides this spectrum.

Since most do, this isn’t at all a difficult process.

While it all just seems like colors, your plants are actually eating these colors, and they’re an important part of their diet.

Buying separate red and blue lights won’t work as well.

Your plants need the optimum amount of both kinds of light during different stages. Most LED grow lights are dual-stage and will offer you the ability to easily flip a switch depending on what stage your plants are in.

You won’t need to change anything throughout the process outside of flipping that switch. A thorough blend of lights is ideal to provide your plants with the balance they require.

Giving your plants LED light actually nourishes them.

Plants grown under LED light will actually utilize fewer nutrients because they’re not relying on them as heavily to grow.

Plants grown without a spectrum light have to overcompensate for what they’re not getting, and this affects their nutritional needs.

Best LED grow lights for you

NextLight Mega LED Grow Light – 650W/Com Port

The Mega is designed to meet the needs of commercial and home growers alike. We understand excessive power consumption, bulb replacements and heat are the biggest problems indoor growers face. The NextLight Commercial Series alleviates all of those issues.

This bright white LED grow light is named “Mega” not for its size but for the increased production and large footprint it will supply to your canopy. Using only 650 watts, this light is perfect for growers looking to cover larger areas using less.

Fluence SPYDR 2i 630W LED Grow Light

Fluence recommends mounting SPYDR 2i fixtures 6” above the top of your canopy to guarantee optimal light uniformity, penetration and flux density above a 4’x4’ canopy.
SPYDR 2i fixtures are suitable for operation in still air ambient temperatures from -10°C (-23°F) to 35°C (95°F). SPYDR 2i operating temperatures range between 25°C (77°F) and 30°C (86°F) above ambient air temperature. Please note; when mounting SPYDR fixtures, a 1 inch gap or greater must be present between the top of the fixture and the surface it is mounted under to enable adequate air flow.

How many lights you should use

Your lights aren’t going to work well if you’re not using them properly. So I said you have to look up specific led grow light reviews to understand the details better.

You need to make sure you have the right amount of lights placed in the right locations to provide adequate coverage for all of your plants.

To start, you’re going to need a precise measurement of your grow room. Because light bounces around, it’s important that you measure the entire area that you’re growing in, rather than just the area that your plants are situated in.

If you need to decrease this area, placing reflectors around your plants is the simplest fix.

The watts listed on an LED grow light may be deceiving if you don’t understand what they mean.

LED grow lights often don’t operate on this wattage but instead, use this capacity to preserve the longevity of the light.

The actual output will differ, and this is the number you need to use in your calculation.

Hope you have a good harvest!