What is the best LED spectrum for marijuana growing?
As we all know, cannabis with different growing stage, Seeding(clone), germination and flowering , Actually what led spectrum is need for cannabis growing, It depends if you’re in veg stage or flowering on what spectrum you want. Usually,
Actually led grow light in the market mostly for germination and flowerings stage, For clone stage, it with specially clone light for this stage. Also it’s difference spectrum for germination and flowering. it needs more blue during germination and vegetative stages and needs more red at flowering stage.
In the early days of LED gardening lighting, red and blue diodes were generally selected because red diodes were cheap and the peak wavelengths used by chlorophyll a and B were in the red and blue spectrum. Using only red / Blue diodes eliminates other spectra that plants use to produce color and smell. If you are a marijuana grower, you need full spectrum lighting.
Here with few grow lights are most used for indoor cannabis growing.
HID grow light
HPS grow light is one of the HID grow lights, HPS plant grow lamp has a very mature flowering spectrum, so it is very suitable for the flowering period of marijuana. But it’s very hot and it needs extra equipment for air and ventilation system.
CMH (ceramic metal halide) is a new HID grow light source technology. Compared with MH and HPS grow lamps, these grow lamps have many advantages. HID lamps have always been the king of penetration, providing usable light deep in the canopy,
Full spectrum LED grow light
Full spectrum LEDs contain more spectrum colors, and some also include useful UV and IR diodes. It’s suitable for germination and flowering stage of cannabis, most led grow light are very good for flowering, some led grow light system supplier call it flowering led grow lights .
Generally, Most growers will combined HID and led grow light for the cannabis growing germination and flowering stage. And it meet the all request of cannabis growing and save cost .