subject: Top Reasons To Use Led Grow Light In Your Greenhouse [print this page] In order to properly thrive, plants need three basic elements- air, water and light.
Carbon Dioxide from humans is required by the flora to make sugar and starch. It is their food. Oxygen is needed by the roots in order to stay healthy as they gather nutrients from the water. Water is also an important element required as it is needed to strengthen their leaves, stems, branches and roots. Without water, it will wilt and die. Light is required as the energy used to create the food it needs to grow. The sunlight is the normal light source of plants.
Greenhouse gardeners are aware of these elements and they ensure their vegetations are constantly supplied with them. Unlike humans, plants do not sleep. The fluorescent lamp is the most common lighting used in most greenhouses. The recently developed LED grow lights aim to replace them because of these main reasons:
1.Less Electricity Consumption
Most greenhouses consume a lot of electrical power and most of it are dedicated to the in the use of the lights. Greenhouses require the light in the evenings and cloudy days as it can replicate the sunlight. A typical 80 watts fluorescent lamp may have a low electrical consumption, but it do not effectively give the plant its energy requirement to produce food. Most of the light produced are not needed as it is already a known fact that vegetations require the red and violet colors only to constantly process photosynthesis. We humans require the color yellow in the lights in order to see things brightly. Plants do not need them. LED grow lights specifically produce only the color of light required by plants in order for them to grow. Statistics reveal that greenhouses can save up to 75 percent of their electricity bills when they switched to the LED grow lights.
2.Less Heat Produced
Plants will wilt if there is too much heat as the water in their leaves, stems, and branches will be absorbed by the heat. Most of the vegetation produced and grown in the greenhouses also requires a cooler temperature in order to grow faster.
3.Not Noisy
Fluorescent lamps require electrical ballasts in order to operate. They do however produce hissing sound that that can be irritating to the human ear. The greenhouse will be a better workplace for the gardeners if they will not experience the monotonous sound emanating from them. The monotonous sound is also known to give headaches to the workers.
4.Very Low Maintenance
Compared to other light sources, LED grow lights have a longer operating time span than the others. LED grow lights in the market are known to have an operating life span of 100,000 working hours. If the LED grow lights will be used only for a half a day daily, the lighting device will not be replaced for 22 years. A compact fluorescent lamp, one of the most commonly used lighting device in the greenhouses, are known to have a life span of 15,000 working hours.
