Why use LED Grow Lights?

What do you need to grow plants?
Red and Blue light is essential for plant growth. It is well known that chlorophyll, which is contained in the green leaves of plants performs photosynthesis. Red and Blue are the wavelengths most essential for photosynthesis. The blue absorption region is 430-450 nm and that of red is 650-670 nm.

Recent research suggests that the ideal balance is 92% red LEDs and 8% blue LEDs. Although the growlights we use have a higher percentage of blue LEDs and they work fine. Blue has a smaller influence than red light so anything between 1% and 20% of blue light can be selected, depending on your plants and their growth requirements. When choosing your LED Growlight you want both colours with the same frequency and relative intensity per LED.

These days most LED GrowLights only deliver the colours of light used by plants for efficient and healthy growth. By leaving out the wavelengths plants won’t need they provide better energy efficiency than conventional growlights.

Red Light
Red Light is in the vicinity of the first peak of a plants light absorption spectrum (660nm) and it contributes to the plant photosynthesis. Red light, when combined with blue light, encourages flowering. It can also be used in higher doses to stimulate flowering, seeding and fruiting.

Blue Light
Blue light is responsible primarily for vegetative growth (leaf). It is known that chlorophyll has the second distinct absorption peak in the vicinity of blue light wavelengths (450nm). The blue light is also indispensable to the morphologically healthy growth plant. There is also more sunlight energy in the blue-green wavelengths

For plants to grow they require light.  White light contains mainly different colours and plants require more red and blue light to grow and flower. t plants absorb light. 

Easygrow LED Growlights combine red and blue LEDs .  The reason to why Red and Blue LED's are used is due to the nature of the way that plants absorb light. In a plant Chlorophyll is important to photosynthesis and growth. Chlorophyll has two hot-spots in the light spectrum - frequencies that are particularly important to growth and to flowering, These hot-spot frequencies coincide with visible red and blue light.

In addition, as our LED Growlights emit only narrow bands of light at these frequencies in the light spectrum, this maximises the effect of the LED growlight in relation to the electricity used.  LED grow lights are available in red-only, blue-only and general purpose red-blue-mixed combinations to cater for your requirement.

EasyGrow LEDs growlights are available as  135w LED Growlight, 300w LED Growlight, 450w LED Growlight, 600w LED Growlight. If you are unsure of what set up of LED growlights is suitable for the space you available please do not hesitate to contact us and we will be able to answer all your LED growlight questions.