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Choosing the Right Grow Light Bulb Depends on Your Needs

September 9, 2009 – 4:32 pm

Why limit yourself to an outdoor growing season? Life’s too short, and grocery store vegetables don’t cut it when you could be enjoying fresh vegetables throughout the year. Why not taste summer year round? Even if you live in a city where it’s winter five months out of the year, indoor gardening is always an option. Indoor gardening is easy, productive and fun. It makes a great hobby that’s not only satisfying, but produces fresh food throughout the year. Any extra indoor space you have Finish Reading this Post

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Growers Face Tough (But Fun) Decisions

July 30, 2009 – 9:18 pm

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

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Finding the Light Online

July 27, 2009 – 9:17 pm

Although the light bulb has been around for over a century now, it has evolved tremendously as a technology. While new styles of bulbs – HID, fluorescent, halogen – all use some of the same principles as Edison’s original, they really are a new species, if not a new class. On top the changes in technology over time, different bulbs designed for different fixtures, applications, and electrical currents are responsible for the creation of literally thousands of kinds of bulbs produced by Finish Reading this Post

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The Perfect Light for Growing or Spectating

July 19, 2009 – 9:28 pm

Metal halide lights are some of the brightest lights that money can buy. Like other high intensity discharge bulbs, they rely on high pressure and high heat to convey a highly intense, blue-oriented white light that is perfect for illuminating sports or aquariums and is ideal for indoor growing applications. Like other HID bulbs, metal halide bulbs contain a mixture of gasses and metal halides that expand inside their envelope to create a high pressure environment. The result is a highly intense Finish Reading this Post

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