Grow Lights

In the grow lighting section you will find all grow lamps and lighting products for successful indoor growing. Here you will find energy-saving lamps, sodium vapour lamps, LEDs and lamps for cuttings. So that growing indoors doesn't fail due to a lack of light.If you want to put together and build your own indoor plant lighting system, you should first make certain preliminary considerations.

• What growing area do I want to illuminate?
• What is the pain threshold in terms of ongoing electricity costs?
• Can my plants cope with the sometimes quite high temperatures generated by high-pressure lamps?
• ... and last but not least: should the set-up be simple or can it be a little more complicated?

Size of the area to be illuminated

The size of the indoor growing area is of course important when choosing the right type of lighting. Where small areas - especially in the context of plant cultivation - can be supplied with simple fluorescent tubes or slightly higher wattage energy-saving lamps, these very cost-effective lighting options quickly reach their limits with larger cultivation areas. At the latest when entire greenhouses have to be supplied with light, there is often no way around series-connected systems or a powerful ignition lamp system for effective plant lighting.

Which light source is right for me?

NA vapour lamps are very cost-intensive, both in terms of purchase costs and power consumption, as they run at an energy-hungry level of 250 watts to even 600 watts. Energy-saving lamps or LSRs are much easier on the wallet and the environment with slightly lower efficiency. If you are afraid of high electricity costs, you should look at the latest variant in the field of grow lighting - LED lamps. However, very low operating costs are offset by higher acquisition costs.

In addition to the cost savings, low-wattage light sources also have the advantage of low heat generation. This means that the risk of damage to the plants from ESL/LED or LSR is significantly lower than with 600W, which cause enormous temperatures in the grow room. If you still want to rely on the powerful variants, you need to use an efficient ventilation solution that transports the heated air past the plants to the outside as quickly as possible. In addition, the heat load is often reduced to tolerable levels by special exhaust air protection tubes in which the plant lamps are mounted - so-called cool tubes.

Another advantage of energy-saving lamps and fluorescent tubes is their relatively simple installation. ESL lamps for plant lighting usually have a built-in ballast which, unlike ignition lamps, no longer needs to be wired separately (we are not allowed to provide any assistance in this regard, as this is generally reserved for professionals). This is even easier with LED systems: here, only the plug needs to be inserted into the socket.

The right light for growing cuttings

Cuttings are the basis of professional plant cultivation. If you want to take your grow to the next level with cuttings, lighting specially adapted to the young plant stage is helpful. In addition to the right lighting duration, the correct lamp spacing and a carefully selected lighting time for cuttings, it is extremely important to use exactly the right colour spectrum for growing young plants.

Fluorescent tubes from the DIY store do not emit the right light spectrum, so you need appropriately optimised lamps for successful cuttings lighting. These differ from normal grow lamps primarily in terms of light intensity and heat emission.