ECO Farm Z6–600 Samsung LM301B LED Grow Light VS Jungle - LED G6i 1700 LED Grow Light
The raising up and fast-growing of the Indoor growing brings a vivid spring to the LED grow light area. Grow lights are a common sight in horticulture. They help plants grow at home. It is not surprising that you see them everywhere in gardening stores and online. This article will explain how to use grow lights properly, so you can enjoy great growth with the minimum amount of effort.
Why LED grow lights are more popular?
Environmental-friendly design
A grow light should be eco-friendly. In other words, the grow light must not generate carbon emissions that pose danger to the environment. Fortunately, most manufacturers take environmental risks into consideration throughout the entire manufacturing process. Keeping in mind, as a consumer, it is your responsibility to protect the environment by only ruling out environmental-unfriendly grow lights.
Some manufacturers produce their grow lights, so they can be recycled. This rule only applies to brands that utilize LED light bulbs.
Economical
Consumers who opt for LED grow lights are guaranteed to reap economical benefits. LED bulbs have a runtime of up to 50,000 hours. The longer lifespan will ensure fewer replacements over time. With fewer replacement requirements, it is possible to minimize the overall cost to grow your plants indoors.
Not only are you saving many with fewer replacements, but also on energy. LED bulbs do not utilize as much energy as incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs. So, you can expect your electricity bill to remain nearly the same throughout the process.
Mimics natural sunlight
While it is remotely impossible to mimic the sunlight fully, it is possible to get very close to doing it. What does this mean exactly? Well, it means the LED grow light will mimic the sunlight by converting the nutrients in the soil, carbon dioxide from the environment, and water into healthy food.
ECO Farm Z6–600 Samsung LM301B LED Grow Light
Features:
This ECO Farm LED grow light uses a high-quality and durable driver and top trash can LED generation and 6 passive cooling light bars to provide full spectrum and wide coverage light for vegetable and flowering growth stages. It covers 5'x5' Veg footprint and 4'x4' flower footprint. The high energy efficiency of 2.7umol/J produces a total PPF output of 1501 umol/J, which produces uniform light spread very close to the crop canopy, and provides excellent effects for indoor planting, greenhouses and planting tents. Compared with conventional similar wattage HPS solutions, LED lights can achieve 30–40% HVAC capacity and up to 30–60% increase in output. IP65 wet environment protection grade, waterproof and dustproof. The LED plant growth lamp adopts high-quality aluminum heat sink design to efficiently dissipate heat. It has no additional fans, and the quiet planting environment has zero noise.
Jungle — LED G6i 1700 LED Grow Light
Features:
The Jungle grow light was designed to be efficient and easy-to-install right out of the box. An ideal and efficient LED grow light for any hydroponic cultivation or home grow, the Jungle G6i 1700/645W advanced LED system was designed to be efficient. The Jungle LED system retains an IP65 wet-location rating along with its corrosion resistance is designed to accommodate installation in your grow space with minimal limitations. With a variety of power cord length options, whether you are looking to mount the LED driver on the side of a rack or on the fixture itself, Jungle G6i/645W comes with simple snap-lock connectors that make reconnecting cables quick and swift.
How to use LED grow light properly?
First things first, you’ll need to determine how much light you need. Usually, with HPS bulbs around 250 watts should be enough for 2 plants, while 400 watts should have you set for 4 plants. A 600 watt set-up should provide enough light coverage for 8 plants, which should be more than enough considering that most plants states only allow personal cultivation of up to around six plants. LED lights typically cover more area with less wattage, and you should be able to cover 6–8 plants with only 350 watts and four plants with only 280 watts according to company-provided information.
Lights produce a lot of heat, so you’ll want to make sure they aren’t too close to the tops of the plants, in order to keep from causing any damage. If you hold your hand under the lights at the level of the top of the plants and it feels too hot for you, you’ll want to raise them a bit. This also depends on the power of the light. For smaller, 150 watt lights, about a foot above the plant canopy should be enough, while with a 600 watt light you’ll want to hold it between one and two feet above the canopy.
In your grow space, you’ll also want to make sure that you have a proper ventilation system setup. Lights produce a lot of heat, and proper ventilation — including the use of fans — will help control temperature somewhat, and help prevent mould.
Also, your lighting system may require a large number of outlets to cover the lights, ballast, fans, and any other equipment you have. For safety’s sake, make sure not to overload any single outlet and ensure you have a surge protection plug to protect your equipment from electricity cuts and surges which can cause damage to your hard-earned equipment.
The lighting schedule and vegetative vs flowering stage
Plants have two distinct growing phases — vegetative and flowering. When growing plants outdoors, the plants usually begin flowering (producing buds) when the days become shorter as summer shifts to autumn. Indoors, there are no seasons, so growers can “trigger” the flowering stage by artificially mimicking the seasonal shift by adjusting the hours of light the plants receive per day.
During the vegetative stage, growers tend to give the plant an 18/6 lighting schedule, or 18 hours of light and 6 hours of darkness (other combinations include 17/7 or 19/5, anything that isn’t 12 hours of darkness).
By shifting to a 12/12 schedule, growers can trigger flowering. Flowering too early can mean a smaller yield while waiting too long to flower your plants can result in plants too big for your grow tent or indoor room. Harvesting your flowers too soon or while clear trichomes are present will result in a smaller harvest with fewer terps and potency, while harvesting too late can result in too many amber trichomes which can cause the flower to be harsh and sedative for the user. With some strains, the vegetative stage can range from around 2–4 weeks to somewhat longer, which is all dependent on the sexual maturity of the plant. With clones, this stage is significantly shorter.
Conclusion
I hope we managed to shine a light on all the amazing options there are available for you to try. As you learn more about your indoor hydroponic garden, some of these lights can be adapted to suit a larger space or a greater volume of plants. It’s inevitable that once you grow your first crop, you will be hooked on indoor gardening, it is seriously addictive.
