LED Grow Light Tips

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In addition to saving energy LED lights reduce a garden’s carbon footprint and OPEX—but can you grow really good weed with ’em?

LED Grow Lights

Now that growing weed is more accessible than ever you need a grow light or two, right? Well before you plunk down your cash on tradition HID grow lights you’ve got to look into LED grow lights. Because they’re definitely stuff stoners like. Compared to HID or High Intensity Discharge Lighting, the traditional grow lights used for raising cannabis, many manufacturers are claiming that an LED grow light is more efficient and effective for growing marijuana. We haven’t had a chance to test these claims, hopefully an LED grow light maker will get in touch and give us a few to review. For that debate you might want to check out our post: How Well Do LED Lights Work for Growing Marijuana?

Anyone who’s ever fucked with an HID grow light system and it’s associated heavy-ass ballast and equipment knows what a pain in the ass they are to set-up (If you’re stuck with an old system you can improve it’s efficiency with a digital ballast.) However LED plant lights are much lighter, don’t require ballasts and can be used for the full life cycle of your marijuana plants. HID lights and ballasts are heavy and require a lot of support to hang. They also wear out quickly and that means they need to be replaced often. How much energy do LED grow lights Save?

If you’re interested in investing in LED grow lights you might want to check out our list of the best LED grow lights available on Amazon.com. Anyhow if you going to run an led grow light set-up we put together a little list of the top 5 tips pertaining to LED Grow Lights so that you maximize the cost and energy savings of your weed-growing efforts.

LED Grow light tips

  1. Use A Reflector
    With LED lights as with HID and T5 lighting it can be helpful to utilize reflectors. That’s because many LED grow lights are one directional and need help with light dispersion. Add a reflectors to your LED grow lamps and you can point the light to exactly where you need it to shine.
  2. Keep An Eye On Temperature
    LED grow lights run incredibly cool compared to HID grow lights. However some growers rely on the heat from HID grow lights to keep their gardens warm during cool nights or cold days. Solve this problem by keeping an eye on the temperature of your grow room. Stick a thermometer about a foot below your grow lights to monitor the temperature near your plants’ canopy and add a space heater on a thermostat if necessary. What’s the Best Temperature for Growing Marijuana Indoors?
  3. Add LED Grow Lights
    If you are growing traditionally you may want to add an additional panel of blue LEDs and shoot them towards the sides of your weed plant or plants. This will help deliver the necessary light to all of the leaves. Of course this won’t work if you’re using the SCROG or SOG technique to grow your plants.
  4. Keep LED Grow Lights At The Right Distance
    Maintaining the proper distance between your LED grow lights and your plants will dramatically improve your grows. LED lights can be kept closer than HID grow lights because they don’t disperse nearly as much heat. However keep your LED grow lights high enough above the garden so that light completely covers the canopy.
  5. Protect Your Investment
    LED grow lights can be very expensive so make sure you take care of them. Use a power strip to regulate voltage going and prevent damaging spikes and surges. Maintaining and even power level will ensure your get the most out of your LED grow lights.

Have you grown weed using HID lights? How did they work for ya and how’d the weed turn out? Let us know in the comments below…



7 Responses to “LED Grow Light Tips”

  1. Ed dog

    I’m 7 weeks into flower on bannana kush with Kind 350 watt LEDS. I have some kolas the size of baseballs…. one thing I do wonder as this is my first grow., is the days determined by day 1 the first day buds appear on plants or is day 1 the first day plants go to the 12-12 cycle?

  2. Matt

    The first day you flip the lights.

  3. Matt

    You should read up on trichomes and the colors they turn when ready for harvest. You can get a digital microscope for like $20 on eBay or use a jeweler’s loupe. That’s a more precise dating method compared to the “hey it’s 8 weeks or 12 weeks or whatever, time to kill the girls” method. Once you get the hang of identifying the tri home colors, you can play with the timing in order to produce more heady highs or more heavy highs as the THC content fluctuates with the CBD content with the colors.

  4. ashek

    LED lights are capable of providing a waide spectrum light. Thats why they are achieving popularity around world.

    For LED lights, it is very important how to properly adjust the colour requirements of plants. Otherwise benefits from LED grow lights can not be achieved.

    Thanks for great tips.

  5. SmallGrowRoom

    Maybe you should consider this one big point, the light spectrum.
    In our opinion, the use of full spectrum LED lights has a greater benefit to the growth process of indoor plants.

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