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.
LED grow lights have good and bad reviews, there’s no doubt that LED grow lights are a forerunner for future indoor growing, they out compare other grow lights in terms of light degradation over time or their total life time.
With LEDs it possible to create the exact wavelength of light that the plant need to grow or flower. HPS grow lights and Metal Halide lights waste a lot of their energy producing some light which is not beneficial to the growth of the plant.
LED grow lights don’t create much heat as a byproduct, so they can be placed extremely close to your plants without burning them. They would also work extremely well in confined spaces due to the lack of heat produced so would be beneficial to those who use hydroponic grow tents or poorly ventilated spaces.
However the setup costs for LEDs can be quite high depending on your grow space and the number of plants you’re wanting to grow. My research suggests that plants typically need 150 - 200 watts of LEDs lights. That’s a lot of lights, so for those who want to venture into the world of LED grow lights you might want to use them for seedlings and cloning and then decide whether the outlay of fitting your entire grow room or tent with LED grow lights is feasible or not.
You can view a wide range of LED grow lights here at Buy Hydroponics. Click the link below to see what options are available for LED lights, such as colour, wattage, shape, type and plug and grow LED lights.
Indoor gardening and grow lamps are closely associated. Indoor rearing of plants always need external lamps source for normal growth of the plants and grow lamps are the ones that supply lamps to plants. In fact, grow lamps are the expensive investment equipment of your indoor cultivation of plants. Nevertheless, they are an invaluable asset to your new gardening venture. They are as good and as safe as your normal household lamps. Here are the types of grow lamps that are used in the gardening sector.
1) The HID Lamps or the High-Intensity Discharge Lamps: These comprise of the high-pressure sodium lamps and the metal halide grow lamps). While the non-fruiting stage calls for the metal halide grow lamps, for the fruiting stage high-pressure sodium grow lamps are the best. In deed these days high-pressure sodium lamps have features to be used during both stages.
2) Mercury Vapor Lamps: In these we get the phosphorus-coated grow lamps that are suitable for vegetative and fruiting stages of a plant. Replacement once in a while is the issue with these lamps and they are expensive choice as well.
3) Fluorescent Grow Lamps: These indeed are the best during the tender stages as the lamps emitted is soft and non-damaging to the young plants. They are best to raise a small nursery and establish the same.
4) Ballasts: The aforementioned lamps use the ballast system for instance the fluorescent lamps which have in-built ballasts where there is initial time lapse before the energy is built up within and then the lamps is emitted.
The high-pressure sodium and the metal halide grow lamps are operated from what is called remote ballasts. Quite the contrary mercury vapor lamps do not call for additional ballast. They can be just fastened into lamps holder.
