Innovation in Grow Lights
For any small business that grow plants indoors, you know how important indoor grow lighting is to the development and growth of plants. The big challenge for most growers is to find new and better grow lights to improve growth and yield of plants while at the same time by mindful of your costs including buying and installing the lights and more importantly, the energy costs of operations.
Many growers rely on older technology simply because that’s what everybody else is using, some growers, to improve their operations and improve production, look to new technologies to help them grow their business. The technologies are diverse and each one offers pros and cons to growing plants indoors.
Before we discuss indoor grow lights, we thought it would be helpful to understand what makes a great grow light. How do pants react to light and what characteristics benefit growers as opposed to just marketing hype.
A quick Google search will quickly overwhelm one with thousands of articles, reviews, and products. We decided to talk to an expert and find out what should a grower look for in a grow light with comparisons of current technology and talk about innovations in grow lighting.
We spoke with Jeff Nall a lighting engineer and technical advisory board member for gGRO Horticulture about their innovative grow lighting system. The pod cast is very in depth and will certainly answer any questions you have regarding light and growing plants indoors.