Yearly Archives: 2009

Get a Start on Healthy Seedlings with a Fluorescent Grow Light

I hear it all the time from gardeners disappointed in the size of their tomato plants mid-season. You can’t blame them. Fresh tomatoes are the highlight of the growing season, so it’s natural to get impatient waiting for them to grow and bloom. It’s also common to be a little disappointed if your tomato plants don’t produce the yields you’re expecting, especially soon enough for an early seasonal fresh salad. The key is to start growing seedlings early, well before planting season. A f Finish Reading this Post

LED Plant Lights Make an Ideal Recessionary Investment

In these recessionary times, it’s important to get the maximum mileage out of every dollar. That means spending money wisely, purchasing items that produce far more than their initial cost value. Not only do we have to tighten our belts, but we also have to invest our dollars wisely so they work for us That’s why purchasing LED plant lights makes so much sense, even in recessionary times. LED lights make it possible to produce your own fresh food throughout the year. It saves money on your g Finish Reading this Post

Grow Fresh Vegetables Year Round with Grow LED Technology

Summer’s months are almost over, which means so are gorgeous days where the daylight stretches well into the evening. As you enjoy a bountiful harvest, it’s natural to be a little sad knowing that the growing season is almost over. Fresh herbs and vegetables taste better than anything you could possibly buy in the store. Sadly, freshness doesn’t last. Even if you can your own vegetables, they won’t taste as great as the cool summer evening you picked them from the garden and sliced them Finish Reading this Post

Best Tips for Setting up an Aquarium

When setting up an aquarium, there are several important components that you must purchase beforehand. By taking the time to properly establish your tank, you can guarantee that it will be ready for your fish when you bring them home.

Growing for Green

Many sophisticated growers shun fluorescent lighting after they discover the efficacy of high pressure sodium and metal halide lighting. But the best growers know that there is always a place for fluorescent lighting in a grow room. In most growing operations, metal halide light bulbs are the workhorses, usually on for 16-24 hours a day during the plant’s vegetative stage to promote a healthy branch system and foliage that increases plant metabolism and will ultimately lead to a bigger pla Finish Reading this Post

Halogen a Great Choice for Aesthetics, Value

In recent years halogen lighting has gone out of vogue almost as precipitously as the Macarena. The primary reason for this is a number of overblown safety concerns specific to halogen lamps. Part of what makes halogen light so clean and bright – the proximity of the quartz envelope to the tungsten filament – is also what makes the bulb hot enough to start fires – if someone is negligent enough to let that happen. In actuality halogen lights are less dangerous than incandescent holiday lig Finish Reading this Post

Lighting your Saltwater Tank

Are you looking for saltwater lighting solutions? Are you a budding aquarium hobbyist that is ready to establish a larger scale aquarium and introduce marine life?

This Holiday, Going Green is Saving Green

Households and businesses around the country celebrate the holidays with a decoration that is at once tacky and charming: Christmas lights. Their colors are synonymous with good cheer and revelry, which many business owners believe also translates into higher sales. But standard incandescent lights can be costly to buy, run, and replace. For all their advantages in spreading cheer, it seems there are few economic advantages to the light unless they directly translate into a sale or nice big gift Finish Reading this Post

Proper Disposal of a Tritium Exit Sign

In some cases emergency signs containing tritium can get damaged. If this occurs don’t handle the light. If a device is damaged the tritium will exit the sign as a very high temperature gas. This gas could escape into local areas of the building.

Growers Face Tough (But Fun) Decisions

Volumes have been written about the hows whys and wherefores of indoor lighting for growing. Growers of all sorts of plants all swear by different sorts of bulbs and configurations. For those who are looking to buy light bulbs for indoor growing, here are is a basic primer on the different types of bulbs. Fluorescent lighting. These bulbs emit very little heat and a clean white light that is fuller-spectrum than incandescent bulb. Because the spectrum is broader and they are much more energy eff Finish Reading this Post