Plant Light - Indoor Grow Lights

Plant light is very important when you are growing plants indoor since there is not enough sunlight available indoors. The plant light role is almost the same as sun by imitating what the sun’s light spectrum can do for plants grown outdoors.

As part of major component for appropriate indoor growing plants, there are a wide variety of plant lights available to help your plants to grow as normal as outdoor plant so that the plants can photosynthesize and grow. The level of lighting usually varies and depends on the types of plants that you have. Some plants can thrive with continuous light, while others may require dark periods to mature and in some cases to initiate flowering.

There are a wide variety of indoor growing lights available in the market and through online purchase. Incandescent lights are the everywhere screws-in bulbs you most likely have lighting your home as there are cheap. Incandescent plants light are designed for horticultural usage.

They are great for a place where you cannot put a large fluorescent fixture. It consists of a glass bulb with a tungsten filament in a near vacuum with just a small amount of argon or krypton is present. When current flows through the filament, it heats up and glows giving off both heat and light. Following are some selection of other types of plant light you may interested.

150 HPS Sun System Grow Light With Bulb

This system will cover a growing area of up to 2 x 2 1-1/2 x 1-1/2 recommended. The most powerful compact systems on the market. With the ballast assembly built into the reflector, these horizontal units are completely self-contained, and ready to plug-in right out of the box. It comes with hooks for hanging and ideal for small growing areas. With 150 watt high pressure sodium bulb included, it delivers an amazing 16,000 lumens. The color spectrum is ideal for indoor plant growing. Highly reflective aluminum insert and with vented housing helps dissipate heat. Final painting with durable white powder coated finish.

Hydrofarm LKIT60 Dayspot 60-Watt

The Dayspot 60-watt grow light attaches itself to just about anything its 3-inch-wide, spring-loaded, rubber-lined hand clamp can fit on. The bulb lasts about 3,000 hours and can easily be replaced at a local hardware or grocery store. Most plants require 12 to 14 hours of sunlight every day, but very few locations afford so much exposure.

This grow light works particularly well with orchids, bonsai, and most houseplants. It should always be placed at least 12 inches above any plant, and keep in mind that the height above the surface it is lighting is equivalent to the radius of the area of light. In other words, if you were to place the lamp 24 inches above the surface, it would effectively light an area with a radius of about 24 inches. Also, please note that this is not an appropriate lamp for standard lighting needs.

This a daylight spectrum, suitable for over-wintering light loving plants and maintaining healthy growth and it comes complete with an attractive clamp-on light fixture.

Glentronics PL-1 Intelligent Plant Light

This ingenious plant light from keep indoor plants healthy. Its patent-pending assembly automatically changes the amount of light it gives the plant, depending on whether it's spring, summer, fall, or winter. Just set the season once, and the lamp's internal computer chip starts the daylight cycle, simulating mother nature. A 9-watt, full-spectrum fluorescent bulb mimics the sun's rays for optimal growth and contains a computer chip that automatically changes the amount of light your plants get with each season . As if that wasn't helpful enough, an accompanying sensor signals when plant needs water. The lamp accommodates plants up to 14 inches tall in a 5-1/2-inch pot.

All Blue LED Grow Light Panel 225 LED 110 Volt

This panel has no ballasts to burn out like other plant lights. It runs at a warm temperature rather than very hot which is common with most other inefficient plant lights. This more controlled running temperature reduces the need to water so often and keeps rooms with plants from getting uncomfortably hot in the summer months requiring additional air conditioning. This state of the art BLUE LED panel plant light is extremely energy efficient paying for itself many times over each year in electricity savings. It saves 50% to 90% in energy consumption compared to incandescent bulbs or fluorescent tubes. Wide angle projection insures uniform leaf coverage.