We’ve added a whole section on HPS Grow Lights. Our High Pressure Sodium (HPS) Grow lights are available in 1000w, 600w, 400w
Buy clicking the links below you can view our HPS Grow lights by wattage and find the cheapest HPS Grow Lights available on the Internet.
LED grow lights are advantageous for any grower who has experience heat problems while growing with traditional grow lights. LED lights are still seen as a recent addition to the grow light family but their advanced target light frequency technology make them an excellent choice for grow lights.
Below are a list of Advantages to LED grow lights.
Targeted light frequencies
You would have been taught in high school that white light is made from different frequencies (colours) of light, a clear example of this is a rainbow where the white light has been separated into colours.
If you’ve already being doing your research in to plant growth and the effect of light, then you will know that plant can only absorb specific frequencies of light, these tend to be at the blue and red end of the light spectrum. Since LED grow lights are able to emit light that contains only the range of frequencies that plants can absorb there is less light wastage and therefore you can use your electricity much more efficiently, as energy prices continue to rise in the UK, this will become one of the most important factors in selecting grow lights.
Heat Emitted from LED Grow Lights
Many traditional grow light such as HPS and Metal Halide become very hot resulting in a need for a cooling system to keep your plants at optimum temperatures. Generally you will need some basic knowledge of electric to wire up a suitable cooling system and dependent on your method of cooling / extraction it can become quite expensive. A major advantage to LED grow lights is a a cooling or extraction system is not needed when using LED Grow Lights, the bulbs produce very little heat and will only become slightly warm to the touch even when they’ve been on for a long period of time. Since there is no need for a cooling system to stop your plants from frying, you will save on your electric bills too.
Low voltage of LED Grow Lights
LED’s are low voltage and require much less electricity than HPS or Metals Halide grow lights. This is another advantage of LED grow lights, since they can help reduce your electricity costs.
No ballast required unlike HPS or Metal Halide
Unlike some other grow lights LED’s require no ballasts, this makes LED Mounting systems lighter than other traditional grow lights. LED grow bulbs can be screwed into normal light fittings and many come with a ES 27 type screw fitting which is a common lamp fitting, so you should have no problems finding a light fitting to house your LED grow bulbs.
LED have a Longer life
A big advantage of LED grow lights is their life time. LED bulbs have a life of approximately 100,000 hours. This is almost 50 times longer than conventional light bulbs. Unlike regular grow bulbs that need to be changed due to the light degradation over time, resulting in light spectrum changes, LED grow lights have a light spectrum which remains constant throughtout their entire life time.
No reflector necessary are LED Grow Lights
Unlike traditional grow light, light is emitted is only emitted in the direction your require, making a reflector un-necessary. Reflectors are built into LED lights, meaning you don’t need to stump up the extra cost of buying a purpose build reflector, once again saving you cash. built into the bulbs themselves.
There are many advantages to LED Grow lights, they save on electricity, produce very little heat and have a extremely long life time with degradation to the light frequency.
You can view our range of LED Grow Lights by clicking on the link below
Follow these simple tips to ensure that your hydroponic garden is safe
1) It doesn’t help in anyway to continuously leave the grow lamps on in your garden, unless for those plants and/or a plant growth stages that really call for a 24-hour lamps requirement.
2) Make sure you periodically check for any damaged cords; worn out cords with wires exposed can increase the risk of fire and even electrical shock to the operator.
3) See that the grow lamps are not exposed to water as several grow lamps accidents reported are because of the same reason.
4) Organizing the cords of the grow lamps and keeping them away from fire is always advised. Tangled cords pose tripping hazard so bundle them and tape to make the place more organized.
Hydroponics is best described in simple language as a method to grow plants in a soil-less environment using Hydroponics systems that use mineral nutrient solution to grow both terrestrial as well as crop plants. The word Hydroponics is derived from Greek roots, ‘Hydro’ meaning water and ‘ponos’ implying labor. It is noteworthy that Hydroponic gardening dates back to 3000 years and examples of this type of farming can well be seen in these two wonders: Hanging gardens of Babylon and Floating garden of the Aztecs of Mexico.
The modern history of Hydroponics can be traced back to a book “Sylva Sylvarum” by Sir. Francis Bacon in 1627. But the use of mineral solutions as hydroponic nutrients was not developed till 1800. This culture was then first perfected by Julius Von Sachs and Wilhelm Knop. It should be remembered that solution culture is a type of hydroponics systems and soilless culture is used in a broader sense.
Hydroponics growing was also used during the two World Wars to provide fresh vegetables to the troops that are stationed in non-arable places. NASA is integrating hydroponics growing into their sustainability plan of their different space programs.
Educate your children with hydroponics
Plants grown via hydroponics grow substantially faster than
those grown in soil. Plus it’s difficult for children to see how the
roots of the plants grow in soil, but the can easily be seen by using a
hydroponics bubbler system. There is more detail about bubbler systems
here, but I’ll give a very quick overview. In a bubbler system, plants
are grown on a medium such as rock wool with baskets. The roots of
plants which fill the baskets are submerged in a hydroponic nutrient
solution which is aerated by a air pump and often a air stone which
sits at the bottom of the nutrient solution. The aerated solution not
only delivers water and nutrients
to the plants roots but oxygen as well, prevent root rot. Because the
plans don’t need to use their energy locating nutrients and water they
can place all their effort into growing upwards.
We know that children have very short attention spans; by growing
plants hydroponically a child can see clear growth in the plant most
days once it is established. They will also have a better
understanding of the plants requirements as they will be adding
nutrients, water and light to their plants and will be able to watch
the effect this has on the plant. While traditionally this is the sort
of basic science lesson a child would learn a primary school, place a
seed into soil and watch it grow. Using hydroponic methods
enables a child to see quick results. By growing plants hydroponically
in the classroom children can experiment with the effect each necessary
elements, light, water and nutrients have on the health of the plant
and its root system, turning the simple action of growing plants into
an exciting science lesson.
As we attempt to teach our children a better way to look
after our planet and its population, hydroponics can have a starring
role. Hydroponics can increase the amount of food grown within a
specific area, there is no need to strip soil of its natural nutrients
and fewer pesticides are necessary resulting in less damage to our
environment.
Hydroponics is the next generation of farming,
hydroponic methods could decrease the amount of the worlds population
that die from starvation while helping to convert excess carbon dioxide
we have created into oxygen. It’s our children who will be the
generation who make the greatest leap in fixing the planet so why not
teach them from an early age the hydroponic information they need to
make a difference.
