Top Benefits of Using LED Grow Lights for Cannabis Growing
For starters, full-spectrum LED lights deliver the entire visible spectrum of light.
As you all are well aware, full-spectrum led grow lights for indoor plants are new on the market, and their advantages have already been questioned. Some people doubt their efficiency because they aren’t familiar with these grow lights yet. And most growers are convinced that giant fluorescent grow lights are the best for an indoor planting of cannabis. The truth is they’re wrong. Let me give you the benefits of using full-spectrum LED grow lights:
LED grow lights offer many advantages over traditional grow lighting including:
- Less Power
- Low Heat
- Efficiency
- Lower HVAC Costs
- Proximity to Plants
- Spectrum
- Controllability of Spectrum, DImming, Schedules
- WiFi and Remote Operation
- All-in-One Package
- Modularity
- Easy to Install
- Daisy-Chainable
- Different Shapes/Designs
- Different Configurations
- Long Lifetime
- Solid State
- Waterproof and Dustproof
- Recyclable
- Faster FInishing, Better Quality, More Resin, Increased Density
- Return-on-Investment
Let's take a more in-depth look at these benefits.
Energy Saving
LED grow lights for weeds produce the same amount of light as HID grow lights but consume fewer watts. This makes them the best grow lights for electricity savings. A testing in the efficiency between the High Pressure Sodium (HPS) lamps and the LED lighting bulbs showed that LEDs decrease energy consumption by 40%.
Low Heat, More Light
LED grow lighting emits far less heat than the lighting methods of other grow lights which is of great importance for the plant grow – too much heat can be damaging to the plants, and decrease their growth and lifetime.
The higher efficiency of light and low heat of LED grow lights caters to the plants needs for growing and blossoming.
Require Less Power, Highly Efficient
Flexible Designs & Many Possibilities
LED lighting has another significant advantage of being more flexible in design and technology compared to alternative lighting methods. For greenhouse lighting, this is especially important as different methods and placements can be employed for optimal lighting of the plants.
LED illumination can be used as ceiling lights, multilayer vertical systems and inter-lighting designs between plants. The latter two employments are particularly important for saving energy and increasing efficiency as less light is lost to the environment and more light is given off directly to the plants to stimulate growth.
Full Spectrum Offers the Best Results
Plants have been harnessing the power of the sun to grow for millions of years, evolving to most efficiently and effectively grow using the sun’s broad light spectrum. LED grow lights closely mimic this light spectrum.
Full spectrum LEDs are good indoor grow lights because they offer a broad and balanced light spectrum. Conventional grow light options will generally peak in certain color spectrums and be lacking in others, giving the cannabis plants an incomplete or irregular spectrum.
Many top models also have a built in switch to easily swap between vegetative growth cycles and flowering cycles.
Easy To Install
The LED grow lights are very easy to installed, especially in smaller grow rooms. Their design is “all-in-one-package” and requires for the light to be simply plugged in, hung up, and for the grower to assure airflow and stable temperatures. Growers don’t have to worry about hanging reflectors or about the grow space overheating.
No Lamp Changes
LED emitters typically have a 50,000-hour useful life. Once hung up, an LED grow light can be operated for more than 11 years on a 12/12 schedule with zero maintenance. During this entire period there are no lamp changes, which means no lamps to buy, drop, be burned by or dispose of as toxic waste. LEDs are the ultimate hang-and-forget lighting technology.
Increased Lifetime
LED lighting's largest advantage for consumers is its incredibly long lifetime compared to alternative illumination technologies. Light emitting diodes, due to their high efficiency and low energy use last for up to 100,000 hours. This means eleven years of continuous lighting or, alternatively, around twenty-two years of half-time operation.
In addition, LED lights do not suddenly stop working but rather slowly decrease in brightness, giving the consumer a head's up prior to the end of its long lifetime and thus ensuring the necessary preparation time needed to install a new set of lights.
Do you have any additional benefits of led grow lights for Cannabis that you would add to the list? Let us know below.
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