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Best LED Grow Lights For Indoor Plants and Seedlin PDF

The document provides information on choosing the best LED grow lights for indoor plants, including key features to consider such as grow area, light output and intensity, light spectrum, and cooling aspects. It then reviews three top-rated LED grow light options: the Fluence SPYDR 2i 630W light, SpecGrade LED Verta light, and PHOTOBIO T 300 Watt light.

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Best LED Grow Lights For Indoor Plants and Seedlin PDF

The document provides information on choosing the best LED grow lights for indoor plants, including key features to consider such as grow area, light output and intensity, light spectrum, and cooling aspects. It then reviews three top-rated LED grow light options: the Fluence SPYDR 2i 630W light, SpecGrade LED Verta light, and PHOTOBIO T 300 Watt light.

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Best LED Grow Lights for Indoor Plants

and Seedlings in 2020


While sharing a common name, not all LED grow lights are created equally. To choose
the best LED grow lights for indoor plants among so many choices out there, this
guide will walk you through must-consider features as well as give reviews on some
top-rated options available.

Must-Consider Features:

Grow area (light footprint)


Ask yourself how many plants you intend to grow? How big are they expected to
grow? How large area does your light need to cover?

As light (and water and nutrients) is your plants' "food", if they receive less than
required, the plants will not grow to their full potential, as per the picture above.

Not every square inch (or square centimeter, for non-US growers) of the plant needs
maximum possible light coverage for the plant to thrive, but the majority (the more
the better) of the plant should be well illuminated.

Indicas grow smaller than sativas in general but it also comes down to how you
manage the plant throughout its grow cycles. You can train the plant to grow a
certain way and have a certain size or area.

Beginners that are still learning plant management will likely have smaller plants,
around 1-2 square foot (~0.1-0.2 square meters) per plant, than experienced
growers.

Find a grow light or a number of grow lights that cover the area of your grow.
Sometimes it makes more sense to buy two (cheap) lights rather than one expensive.

Light output and intensity (PPFD/PAR)

Your plants need a certain amount of light to grow. To keep this guide short and in
point, your weed plants will need around 300 PPFD (sometimes also referred to as
PAR) when they are small and in their vegetative stage, then about the double (600
PPFD) during flowering. With added CO2 and the right ratio of nutrients,
temperature, and humidity, cannabis plants can take even a bit higher PPFD levels
but 600 is still a good general rule of thumb.

Smaller plants like herbs (basil, rosemary, and microgreens) require about 150-200
PPFD while veggies (cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes) can take anywhere from
200-600 PPFD.

PPFD basically means photon density; how much light hits a certain area every
second.

High PPFD means high light intensity.

Light Spectrum
Remember that it is the red blues, IR and UV that also counts when growing your
marijuana crop, so you want to stick to the ideal PAR values. Look for blues that have
a range from 440-470nm, with rends in the 640 to 660nm.

Cooling Aspects
These lamps stay on for the better part of the day, often 15 hours at a time, so you
want to make sure they have internal fans that protect the lamp but also those that
protect the plants. If it gets too hot in there you could damage your plants.

LED lights run cooler than HPS bulbs as they only let off about 15 to 25 % of the
energy as heat, but the heat occurs behind the bulb in LEDS, and that area needs to
be protected. A good quality lamp will have a thick aluminum heat sink attached to
the back exterior or interior area which forces the heat away from the chips.

Best LED Grow Light

Fluence SPYDR 2i 630W LED Grow Light


Fluence recommends mounting SPYDR 2i fixtures 6” above the top of your canopy
to guarantee optimal light uniformity, penetration and flux density above a 4’x4’
canopy.
SPYDR 2i fixtures are suitable for operation in still air ambient temperatures from
-10°C (-23°F) to 35°C (95°F). SPYDR 2i operating temperatures range between
25°C (77°F) and 30°C (86°F) above ambient air temperature. Please note; when
mounting SPYDR fixtures, a 1 inch gap or greater must be present between the top of
the fixture and the surface it is mounted under to enable adequate air flow.

SpecGrade LED Verta LED Grow Light


The finely-tuned A1 'Entire Life Cycle Spectrum' has proven at universities and
various grow environments to improve the trichomes and taste while cutting
operational costs and shortening grow cycles. Our grow light simulates the sun based
on proven spectra and runs at a sustainable energy-efficient intensity. It’s designed
to successfully augment the photosynthesis process for the optimum plant from
propagation to flowering.

PHOTOBIO T 300 Watt LED Grow Light

HOTOBIO • T represents the apex of LED Top lights. PHOTOBIO • T can be applied
indoors or greenhouse as a direct 600W HID alternative or retrofit. Patented PHOTO•
PRO Photon Regulating Optics ensure the most efficient delivery of plant biologically
active radiation (PBAR) to the plant canopy. PHOTO•LOC Light Output Control allows
precise control over the photons that are delivered to the plant canopy when used in
conjunction with a 0 – 10V controller. In greenhouse facilities, PHOTOBIO delivers
consistent optimal PPFD levels throughout the day while saving energy. Just pair
PHOTO•LOC with an environmental control system that utilizes a quantum sensor to
measure light entering the greenhouse and automatically regulate light output in real
time.

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