While indoor growers in previous decades had to settle for shop best LED grow lights and extra hot sodium lamps, today's grow lights are lightyears ahead. There are many options for an indoor light source that is truly bright enough and full spectrum for optimal plant growth. There's no one grow light that's right for everyone either. 

 What Are Full Spectrum LED Grow Lights?

First things first, if you’re new to indoor gardening, you’ll want to know exactly what you’re looking for. Full spectrum LED (light-emitting diode) lighting aims to mimic natural sunlight, producing, as the name implies, the full spectrum of light plants require for optimal growth.

This full spectrum is produced in two ways. One is by coating blue LEDs with a mixture of different colored phosphors. Phosphors convert the blue light’s wavelength into a wider range of wavelengths that ultimately look like white light (like sunlight does). The second is to combine red, green and blue diodes in such a ratio and pattern that the light appears white to the human eye.

After talking about characteristics to look in a good LED Grow Light, lets talk about things to consider before buying the best LED Grow light.

1) Coverage Area: It's absolutely important to be aware of the amount of the space for your light coverage. It's imperative to understand the total amount of space needed cover with your LED lights. Each light has a range of space that it can cover, hence it's important to understand the accurate measurement of the grow space to cover. Once the accurate area for coverage by LED grow lights is found out, make sure to read the reviews and feedback from others on the actual space that the LED light can cover.

2) Brand/Budget/Price: These considerations are important depended upon your grow journey. For a beginner, it will make more sense to go with a lower priced option to get your your feet wet. This will be important as the higher-quality lights typically yield the best results. Once you are more experienced, it's never better to go with the higher-quality lights, as they typically yield the best results. A good brand that has raving customer reviews, is almost always, a safe bet.

3) Spectrum: A full spectrum LED grow light will go a long way in terms of helping your plant during various growth stage. Red,blue, infrared,ultraviolet all light variations are necessary, depending on the stage. It goes unsaid about importance of a powerful light, with different wave lengths to ensure maximum growth. The full spectrum yields are becoming popular these days as they run cool and don't need any additional fans, cost less overtime given the electrical savings, and a strong durability. We highly recommended to purchase these kind of LED grow light as they are the best lights offer that offer the full range, including UV light. 

4) Electrical Usage: A good LED lights will need to have durability and great electrical efficiency as well as they will ideally operating for at least 10-12 hours a day. When researching a good LED light, it's very important to understand what the total output is (1000w, 400w, 300w etc). The more powerful lights tends to have less electrical usage and more cost effective.

 5) Light Control: Every growth stage requires the proper amount of lighting (down to the exact hour). Please find below a breakdown of the phases below for growing LED lights:

• Seedling Phase: 16 hours on, 8 hours off


• Vegetative Phase: 18 hours on, 6 hours off


• Flowering Phase: 12 hours on, 12 hours off

It's extremely important that light cycles are followed to a tee as it can severely alter the growth and potency of your plants. 

Fluence VYPR 3p LED Grow Light

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• Featuring 4 new spectra, VYPR 3p offers high fixture PPF up to 2330 µmol/s and high efficacy up to 3.8 µmol/s, enabling the direct replacement of a 1000W HPS fixture at more than 40% energy savings.


• WIRE HANGERS - These standard mounting options include Pipe, Unistrut and Square wire hangers. Ideal for mounting under the truss or pairing with chain or cable to suspend the fixture lower.


• COMBO MOUNT - Stacking the light fixture and power supply under the truss allows individual VYPRs to be installed closer to one another without a second support structure to hang the power supplies.


• PARALLEL TO TRUSS MOUNT - This mounting option maximizes light fixture's distance to crops for better light uniformity, and clears the space under the truss for operating other equipment.


• PERPENDICULAR TO TRUSS MOUNT - This mounting option allows the fixture to hang perpendicular to the truss to be in parallel to high-wire crop rows, providing better light uniformity without installing additional support structure

From broad white to high red, Fluence PhysioSpec™ is
now offering BROAD and DUAL spectrum options on
VYPR Series, better meeting grower's needs in optimizing
spectral content and light levels for any crop at any
growth stage and geographic locations.

PhysioSpec™ BROAD Spectra offers continuous spectral
photon emission across the PAR 400-700nm wavelength
range, balancing energy efficiency with quality of light for
desired plant response and human work environment.
PhysioSpec™ DUAL Spectra features two narrow spectral
bands that maximize the energy efficiency, aiming to further
reduce energy cost and operational expense.

MORE EFFICIENT AND POWERFUL THAN EVER
Built upon patented thermal management technologies,
VYPR 3P features market leading high efficacies and high
light output per fixture, enabling the direct replacement of a
1000W HPS fixture at more than 40% energy savings.

High PPF up to 2330 µmol/s per light fixture
With that, VYPR 3P further reduces the number of fixtures and
system cost per lit area, lowering the capital investment and
accelerating the adoption of LED horticultural lighting.

The optional reflector kit provides a wider light pattern and uniform PPFD at plant canopy.

• Light Output PPF: 1690 – 2330 µmol/s


• Efficacy: 2.7 – 3.8 µmol/J @ 277V AC


• AC Input Power: 610 – 623W @ 277V AC


• Certifications: DLC, ETL, cETL, CE, Wet Location


• Warranty: 5 Year Standard Warranty


• PhysioSpec™ Spectra: Broad R6, Broad R8, Dual R9B High Efficacy, Dual R9B, Dual R5B (Antho)

AgroMax PRIME 600w Flower LED

The AgroMax Prime 600w Flower LED grow light is built to replace and outperform 1000w HPS grow lights in high-value flowering crop applications. This evolution in the PRIME series combines the massive PRIME heat sink with Samsung LM301B 3500K chips and select 660nm red chips to increase output targeted for flower development and yield. Featuring a 4′ x 5′ footprint and 1524 µMol output, Prime 600 Flower is equipped to deliver explosive flowering potential as well as huge savings in energy costs. Additional features include a low-profile plug and play design as well as a moisture resistant conformal coating, making the PRIME 600w Flower an ideal high-efficiency LED lighting solution for both home and commercial use.

PRIME FLOWER SPECTRUM

The PRIME Flower 600 features a careful array of Samsung LM301B 3500K white chips interlaced with 660nm red that provides a full-spectrum base with narrow-band red light. This combination of white light and red wavelengths is specifically targeted for increased flowering production and produces a PAR output 11% higher than previous PRIME models. Equally as important, the system’s dimmable Meanwell driver backs up its AgroMax LED panels, pushing every single micromole out of the top-bin LED chips with reliable efficiency.

PRIME CONSTRUCTION

For extended fixture life, the PRIME 600 features a 20-POUND fanless aluminum heat sink that dissipates the heat generated by LED chips. This massive heat extends the useful life of the LED chips, prevents burnouts, and operates silently. Moreover, it is the key that allows the AgroMax PRIME 600 Flower to produce an ultra-intense 1,524 µmol output in a concentrated area.

To keep the whole fixture safe in damp cultivation environments, a conformal resin coating is applied to protect circuitry and diodes from moisture, dirt, and humidity. A vented steel enclosure also helps to shield the ballast from direct contact with water spray.

Grow with confidence using the PRIME 600 Flower, the prime LED grow light solution for high-value crops.

Features:

• Next-generation SMD LED technology

• Samsung LED LM301B & 660 Red chips with Meanwell driver

• 3500K + 660nm Red Flower spectrum

• Conformal Coating

• Industrial-grade aluminum heat sink

• Dimming controller ready

• 3-year warranty

– Complete 600w LED fixture

– 100,080 lumens | 1524 µmol

– PPFD Efficiency: 2.54 micromoles per watt (μmol/w)

– Chips: Full-Spectrum Samsung LM301B 3500K | Supplemental 660nm Red

– Premium Mean Well driver

– Compatible with 120-277v input voltage

– Measures: 46″ L x 6″ W x 5″ H

– Power Specs: 606w, 5.5A @ 120v

What do you need to set up LED Grow Lights for your plants? You only need a usable hand and a thinkable brain, because set up it is stupid easy!

You don’t need a hood because it has one. Also don’t need ballast, exhaust,… because all of them was set completely in a kit. But there are some things you must know before choose and set up your grow lights:

Back to top of this page, you will see many kinds of LED Grow Lights with many parameters, but you should focus on two important parameters:

Power consumption:

Each type of LED has a different power consumption, base on your budget and garden area, you can choose the best for you.

For the first times growing indoor, you cannot estimate the brightness by eyes, you will need a Led PCE-LED 1 to measure how much lighting is enough for your plants. Holding Led PCE-LEDat the top of your plant and drag up or down your grow light base on the number appear on the screen.

30k – 60k Lux is suitable to the growth of many crops; flowering need more light level, about 45k – 75k Lux. Normally, with 400w lamps, the ideal distance from the lamp to the top of the plant is about 60 -70 cm

The color of LEDs:

There are many colors, but you should focus on two colors: RED and BLUE. Red light is essential for plants to grow and bloom, using the red LED Grow Lights when you want to grow flowers or fruit trees. Blue light harmonic the progression of plants, blue LED Grow Lights suitable for leafy crops such as vegetable.

But too much red light can make your plants become taller and slender so it will easy to break. So I recommended you should mix blue and red Led, the rate between them depends on the purpose of cultivation as described.

In summary, the disadvantages of LEDs are a minority compared to the benefits that LEDs offer such as environmentally friendly, safe to use, saves electric power, no need maintenance, long lifespan… LED current prices are high, but considering the long-term effects of the use of LEDs is still cheaper than other types of lights.