LED grow lights are a good choice if you are interested in growing indoors without a lot of hassle. Traditional grow lights generate a lot of heat and use large amounts of electricity, which raises your monthly electric bill by noticeable amounts. These LED grow lights stay cool, and use only a minuscule amount of energy.
Each “SolarOasis Ruby Grow Light” uses less than 2 watts of power. They are designed and optimized for plant growth, not human vision. They produce only red and blue light which the plants can use. See more details on this page. The LED lighting strip seen here is available from LEDTronics for $159.95.
There are also some more powerful and expensive LEDs available at LEDGrowLights.COM and on their eBay Store.
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“All Grow Lights Are Not Created Equal”
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Costing up to $135.00 per month to operate, high-wattage HID lighting systems produce
only 25% visible light, the rest is invisible heat, and only ½ an HIDs visible light is actually
absorbed by plants and used for photosynthesis.
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I have thought about picking some LED’s up, but they are still prohibitively expensive. The new t-5’s will cover more area with less heat. NASA thinks they have potential, so I am still excited about improvements in the field of LED’s.
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Don’t waste your money, folks. The 5mm LEDs used in the above products are insufficient for growing. At around 30% efficiency they are actually far less efficient than CFLs.
You will need to use high output LEDs in order to achieve the necessary efficiency (70-80%), and targeted spectrum growing becomes viable.
have a look at www dot greenpinelane dot com and see real LED grow lights being tested by someone who is not trying to sell you anything. No commercial interest, just interest.
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These just don’t make sense in most environments. If the daylight hours in your area are too short to successfully grow plants indoors near windows, then the outdoor temperature is probably too cold to grow those same plants. The fact that a fluorescent grow light puts out some heat is actually a good thing, because it is creating that heat and light combination with 100% efficiency. This is one of the things that keeps my only 90% efficient furnace from turning on in the winter time.
This is very interesting to say the least. Just think that at some point not very long ago people thought that growing indoors was not possible and now we have these super efficient sources working. I’d can’t wait to see how far this technology goes.
This is really too mysterious