The
choice of the type of grow light for your indoor garden can play a critical
role in ensuring its proper and healthy development. It has often been seen
that in case of grow lights cheap
products generally prove to be quite expensive and difficult to use in the long
run. If you are looking for easy to use and durable lighting system for your
indoor garden, then HID lighting is definitely the right choice.HID
stands for High Intensity Discharge and generally an hid light is bulb is much larger than the normal light bulbs. These
are also sealed glass containers filled with gas, but unlike the normal bulbs
have two electrodes between which the current is arced to light up the gas.
Some HID bulbs can be even as large as your forearm, depending on the area
covered by and the type of plants for which you would be using the lighting
system.
HID grow light is generally divided
into two categories according to the gas filled in their sealed glass
chambers. The first type of HID bulb is
the metal halide (MH) lamp and the second category is that of high pressure
sodium (HPS) lamps. The main difference between the two is that they use
different types of gases to produce diverse light spectrum which can be helpful
in enhancing the various growth stages of your indoor plants.
In
addition to the above two categories of hid grow light, there is also a third category of “dual arc” HID light systems. If your plants are
in the flowering stage, then choosing the HPS HID lighting is most appropriate,
while for vegetative plants, MH HID lighting system is the right choice.
Whenever
there is any plan in your mind to grow a lovely indoor garden in your house
then you definitely make sure that you are well aware of the process to grow
the garden and the type of plants which you can include in indoor gardens.
Plants need light to survive and grow in a proper manner and so you need to
select quality grow lights for the same so that plants can get the required
amount of light for its healthy growth.
