Grow Lights and Indoor Gardens

Think of benefits of growing your own fresh vegetable, herbs, salad greens or beautiful flowers all year long. There’re many different type indoor plant growing systems available on the market today. Be sure to address the seven limiting factors for good plant growth. Indoor garden must have water, food, light, temperature, humidity, air circulation and CO2 controls to produce heath plants.

Lighting

Different color lighting helps your plants to desire to grow tall, bloom and set fruit. Bluish colored lights are good for growing green leafy plants. Reddish color bulbs tend to grow tall shinny plants. The yellow-orange color bulbs tricks the plants into think that fall is coming, which stimulates flower or fruit production. The length of time for preferred lighting must also be considered: short-day, long-day or day-neutral.

Simple incandescent grow bulbs are a bad choice because of the high heat and poor color rendition limiting proper plant growth.

Fluorescent grow lights are the least expensive and offer a broad choice of sizes and colors bulbs. Newer Compact fluorescent light (CFL), high-efficiency electronic ballast t-8 and high output t-5 bulbs all offer color range from 2700k to 6500k to meet your plants requirements. The full-spectrum bulbs are the best for most general applications.

High-Intensity Discharge (HID) is used main by commercial growers and serious horticulturalists. HID lighting is a cost efficient way to convert electricity into light. There are three main types of HID grow lights used for horticultural lighting and they include metal halide, high-pressure sodium and mercury vapor bulb.

Water and Ventilation Systems

You can manually water your plants one at a time or jump to full blown hydroponics and every thing in between.

Remember to provide adequate ventilation and temperature controls for your plants. The web is full of advice and tips for your indoor growing adventures.

Electrician can provide the proper wire size and location of the electrical outlets for the lights, pumps and ventilations to prevent future electrical problems. GFIC protection of all receptacles near any wet area is required for your safety. Contact your local electrical contractor regarding the electrical safety of your installation.