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Best Grow Lights for Weed

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  The best grow lights for weed help you reap monster yields for your indoor garden. When growing indoors, you need the right amount of light for plants. A simple desk lamp won’t work. Weed isn’t like your traditional houseplant. Indoor cannabis gardens need bulbs that have the right color spectrum and light intensity as the sun. Conventional lighting such as incandescent bulbs in your home isn’t enough to stimulate the photosynthesis needed to grow your plants. Indoor gardens need a consistent and powerful light source. Choosing the right type of light during different parts of the plant’s life cycle is crucial. Our article shows you which types of light work best for your indoor grow.

Understanding Color Spectrum

When shopping for supplemental lights, you’ll ...

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Discover the Best Lighting Colors for Growing Cannabis

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Growing cannabis indoors provides some distinct advantages when it comes to the level of control that’s possible. While growing outdoors provides its own unique benefits, there also are uncontrollable variables that make it less certain than the full controls and automation possible indoors. Not only are factors like temperature, humidity, and air flow under the grower’s control with meters, but lighting and light cycles are easy to change or customize at the discretion of the gardener. ...

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Full-Spectrum Lighting for Growing Cannabis

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If you’ve decided to grow your own cannabis at home but haven’t done it before, no doubt you have questions. Since lighting is one of the most vital components of a successful grow space, let’s explore the various lights commonly used for cannabis cultivation and learn more about the light spectrums they capture as well as the pros and cons of each. ...

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Using LEC Lights To Successfully Grow Cannabis

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If you are going to buy a newly made technological device, you have to do so cautiously. This is true if the results have not yet been proven. When you grow cannabis, you have to consider this factor. LEC lights though have received a lot of press and have been reported to be efficient with the ability to improve cannabis yields. And for this reason, they have enticed a good number of cannabis growers. ...

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Ideal Cannabis Lighting For Your Winter Grow

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As fall comes to a close and winter sets in, cannabis growers have harvested their outdoor grows and reaped the fruits of their spring and summer toil. With flower from outdoor grows cured and continuing to fine cure in their mason jars, attention shifts to indoor or greenhouse grows since outdoor growing is no longer an option. Either a greenhouse with supplemental lighting or an indoor grow space will ensure continued cannabis production during the frigid winter months. ...

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Guide to Growing Marijuana Without Lights

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Get ready to rethink cannabis growing, with the Guide to Growing Marijuana Without Lights. Cannabis can grow and flourish in a variety of environments, both indoors and outdoors. From a cultivation perspective, it’s a forgiving plant that will reward its grower if key essential needs are met. One of these needs is light—whether natural or artificial lights. ...

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Preparing Marijuana Grow Room for the Winter

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If you operate any marijuana grow room, there are some essential things that are necessary and required for a good harvest. It is not an easy proposition to grow weed indoors and neither is it inexpensive. However, you can keep expenses down by being creative and innovative, even though, there are things which are mandatory. You can get high yields, if you maintain control of every aspect of the environment where you will grow weed. You should also keep track of all the necessary elements that your marijuana grow room will need to flourish. Don't let it sound too complicated because it can be quite simple than you would expect. First, we are going to look at the elements involved.

The Darkness

Of course, light is important to your marijuana grow room, especially during the ...

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LED Lights for Growing Cannabis Indoors

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One of the relatively new things that have come on the marijuana growth scene is LED grow lights. Hydroponic grow rooms use these lights to get the best results from their marijuana harvest. These lights also help cannabis growers to save on electricity. There are various LED models of lighting and it is ideal to know which ones to use for growing cannabis indoors. Many of these lights, these days, are made with broader spectrums of light, which means that it covers a wide area of the hydroponic grow room. The kind of LED lights used will determine how green and healthy your marijuana plants and buds turn out to be. Advanced Platinum Manufacturers of LED lights have made unique developments that include specialized lenses that directly point light to the plant, increasing its ...

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Supplemental Lighting or Side Lighting for Indoor Cannabis Grow

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Supplemental Lighting for Indoor Cannabis Grow Room

When you are operating indoor cannabis grow room, it is important to understand the differences between supplemental lighting and side lighting. What is side lighting? Well, this is used when you want to target the sides of your marijuana plant with enough light to increase the sizes of the marijuana buds on each side. Supplemental lighting, on the other hand is when the levels of lighting has to be increased for better results or the light spectrum needs to be changed. Supplemental light is not given to the marijuana plant from the sides, but from the top of the plant to give a desired outcome.     The Light Supplement                                                                                     ...

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How to Grow Weed in a Tent

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Have you ever wondered how to grow weed in a tent? Learning how to grow pot requires an in-depth knowledge about the plant itself, but also specific steps that have to be carried out to get the desired results. Let’s take a closer look at how to grow cannabis, the best lights for growing cannabis and other essentials. The Necessities The ideal crop type to use is cannabis seeds and not just cuttings. The capacity of your grow tent to handle twelve plants is about one square meter. Your substrate should be soil. Now, let’s discuss the lighting system, which is one of the most important parts of the equation. Lighting System Find the best LED lights for growing cannabis plants. You should use sodium lamps (600 watt) that are 50/60 cm distance from the plants. However, if you ...

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Best Lighting for Cannabis Growing

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Best Lighting For Cannabis Growing  Let's take a look at the best lighting for cannabis.

There are 2 types of High Intensity Discharge Lights (HID)

 High Pressure Sodium (HPS) HPS lights are great for flowering. They have a lifespan of around 18,000 hours, or 12 to 18 months.  HPS lights give off a lot of heat.  Small HPS bulbs, 100 and 250 watts should be hung about 2 to 3 feet above the cannabis plants to avoid burning.  Medium sized HPS bulbs, such as 400W and 600W should be hung about 4 feet above the cannabis plants, while large HPS bulbs, 1000W and up, should be hung about 4 to 6 feet above the plants.  HPS lights lack in the blue color of the spectrum, so they are not very good for the vegetative growth period. Some of the ...

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