GreenParrot Seeds
2014-05-29

Illuminate your interior plant with LED lights

Use LED!

The watts consumption destined in the interior harvests of marijuana tend to be a preoccupation with the people who plant these plants.

The harvest with an artificial illumination will ensure a correct growth. Its usage is to help the flowering of cannabis plant in reduced spaces.

Marihuana Led

“The lamps designated to the cultivation room with a high game HIP have always been the first elected option by the cultivators to use in the whole growth of the plants.”

Nowadays, thanks to the technology advances, LED illumination has been introduced in the marijuana harvest. With this light, a 30%-40% of electrical consume is saved.

The high quality LED lamps are nowadays available in the market, and are slowly replacing normal bulbs in the interior plantations(), thanks of its great results.

We are going to explain you its principal advantages, and some inconvenient to help you to decide to use it in your harvests.

Turn on the light!

Marihuana Led

LED: “little but efficient”

Led Lamps light through the flow of electricity through a semi-driver material.

!(right)/system/site_photos/images/37/original/led4.jpg?1401388536(Cannabis Led)!In another hand, the conventional HID bulbs burn the cables.

This ensures the movement of the electrons and the production of light without losing energy in warm way, as the traditional bulbs.

You should have into account:

The requested lumens for the interior marijuana() cultivation are:

To cultivate marijuana, you need 2.000 lumens x m2.

This means that if you have a 0.50m x 0.50m of space, you should cover:

0.50m x 0.50m= 0.25m2

For 0.25 m2 you need:

0.25m2 × 20000 lumens= 5000 lumens

You will need 5000 lumens!!

Cannabis Led

Save of energy

LED lights use the electricity in a really efficient way to produce light. It is displayed, that the LED light has an efficient of 150+ lumens for watt, whereas a normal lamp uses 100 efficient lumens for watt. This represents that some LED systems bring a 50% of energy save.

Extend the useful life

LED lights do not burn cables, for this reason its life is longer, with a 50.000-60.000 hours of duration

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Heat control

LED systems produce little heat, for this reason they can be established from 30-45cm of the cannabis plant, avoiding them the elongation.

HID bulbs lose almost the 95% of the energy producing warm and radiation, for these reasons should be located from 60-90 cm above the plant.

The variation of heat with LED is minimum; this means that you won’t have to pay a refrigeration system.

“However, if you cultivate in a cold place, LED would be an inconvenient because of the lack of heat. In this case, we recommend you to use a combination of LED and HID. “

Intensity of this light

Now, the low intensity of this light is not a problem.

The present LED with 5 diodes, are capable to produce enough intensity as the HID bulbs. Some LED have 10 watts, it makes them to be an excellent option to cultivate marijuana.
Marihuana Led

Light and colours source

The high quality of LED has the necessary properties to cultivate cannabis plants.

During the life cycle of cannabis plant is important to give it blue and red colour.

The most LED placques used in indoor marijuana cultivation, have been designed with blue and red diodes with the finality of providing the needs of the cannabis plants.

“Blue colour is perfect while the plant is growing, whereas red is for the flowering step.”
Also, nowadays LED RGB has been created.

This has a white light with a perfect balance between red, blue and yellow spectrums. These lights are working in the same way that the sun does, which indicates that this lights are the perfect option to cultivate these plants.

Initial high costs…save in the future

The principal inconvenient of high quality LED system is its elevate price.

However, we know that all the technological products will make you save in the future.
Also, if we must have into account the save of energy and the long life of this product, then we will realize that the higher prize paid at the beginning will give you an intelligent strategy in your budget for your interior marijuana plantation.

Top LED sales in 2013

Now, we recommend you some LED lamps selection valued as the most efficient by its interior marijuana cultivators:

• SolarStorm of California Lightworks Products
• Diamond Series XML 10W CREE of Advanced LED Lights
• 189X-PRO of LED Grow Lights
• Magnum Plus2 of Magnum Plus

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