Indoor lighting even gives you the opportunity to grow tropical plants provided you are able to maintain a temperature above 80 degrees F. for that area. The gardener who is also the chef of the home may even consider an indoor herbal garden for the kitchen.
indoor herb garden lights can be used if the kitchen is not getting enough natural light. Indoor garden lighting is a great idea for those delicate plants that are not yet suitable for your outdoor garden. Indoor lighting will also help the gardener start those flowers and vegetables from seed before the outside temperature warms the ground for planting.
Most indoor plants will need a sufficient amount of light. You can supply the indoor garden with natural light if possible or give them artificial light. The indoor plants or houseplants that have darker leaves do not need as much light. You can also have two separate gardening areas set up in your home, one that receives only natural light and one with artificial gardening lights installed. You can place the dark leaved plants in a natural light area that will only receive light a portion of the time. Indoor gardening lights will bring out the beauty of our
indoor plants as well as add some color to the room. There are several types of indoor light options.
These types of grow lights that are generally used for indoor gardens include fluorescent, incandescent, metal halide or MH, high pressure sodium, and LED lights. Fluorescent lights are very popular and most readily available with many different watts. The standard fluorescent lights of 2800 to 6000K are generally used as indoor vegetable garden lights for spinach, lettuce and herbs. They are also good for starting seeds indoors before the ground outdoors is ready to be planted.
Incandescent lights usually have a low color temperature around 2700K and are best used to highlight indoor plant groupings but are sometimes labeled as
grow lights. Metal Halide or MH indoor plant light bulbs are considered to be one of the best plant lights; they are very efficient indoor grow lights. A bluer spectrum sheds an efficient amount of light which encourages and helps the growth of houseplants. High pressure sodium or HPS lights give the MH lamps some good competition. They are a reddish-orange light which stimulates growth of flowering and budding plants. Unfortunately these lights do not have a blue spectrum which influences the growth of green leafy plants. The life span of HPS indoor plant lights is about 1,800 hours.
LED or light emitting diode
indoor garden lights are the most recent development in lights for plant growth. LED lights create more light per wattage of power that is used and at the same time give off less damaging heat. Due to this fact indoor gardeners find them very beneficial because they can be situated closer to the plants than fluorescent or high density incandescent lights. They are not as fragile as the incandescent light or the fluorescent tube. They also have a longer life span with approximately 35,000 to 50,000 hours.
