LED technology for indoor grown plants
Until recently, indoor growers only had traditional mechanisms of
indoor hydroponic growing with high heat bulbs such as high pressure
sodium, metal halide, and more recently, compact fluorescent.
The
light bulb would...
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LED technology for indoor grown plants
Until recently, indoor growers only had traditional mechanisms of
indoor hydroponic growing with high heat bulbs such as high pressure
sodium, metal halide, and more recently, compact fluorescent.
The
light bulb would provide massive amounts of light, measured in lumens,
to replicate the sunlight necessary for photosynthesis which drives
vegetative growth and flowering.
These lighting sources provide white light, which is the combination
of all the colors in the visible spectrum put together.
The problem
with these traditional lighting sources is that they are inherently
inefficient and waste a great deal of energy in the form of excess
heat and light in the visible spectrum which is not beneficial to
indoor growing.
For example, the green spectra is not necessary for
photosynthesis as green light is reflected and does nothing to the
plants (green light bulbs are good to use when you need to enter your
grow room during the sleep cycle of your
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