If you grow an early seedling or it has a long period of vegetation at home, you just need a seedling highlight. In this case, you need to understand carefully which lamps are preferable to use.
Lamps for highlighting seedlings - options
Normal incandescent lamps are not exactly suitable, because they emit a yellow-red spectrum of rays, not useful for plants. Actually, these lamps are almost completely out of use, even from everyday life. So they do not suit for backlighting either.
Fluorescent lamps have a more complete spectrum of radiation, so it is better for plants. To fasten such lamps over seedlings it is necessary at an altitude of 15-20 cm. Their disadvantage is low power, a low proportion of red light in radiation.
Another option - sodium lamps. Although they are more suitable for growing seedlings of vegetables and flowers on a later date. And during the initial development of plants can lead to their extension, and this is not good. Also, these llamas can not be connected directly to the outlet, they need a special separate connection.
Analyzing all this information, we can come to the conclusion that the best solution will be the illumination of seedlings with LED lamps and LED ribbons. Such a variant of illumination combines such positive aspects as:
- low power consumption;
- no overheating of the lamp (you can not be afraid to damage the plants from a close location, and the soil will not overheat and dry out too quickly);
- the ability to select LEDs depending on the stage of development of the plant (at an early stage you need blue light in combination with red-orange).
Cultivation of seedlings with such a correct purple illumination is the key to its good development. Of course, it is better for each individual plant to select an individual mode of illumination, the duration of phyto-periods and so on.
Shelving rack with illumination
Shelves are designed to save space by compactly placing plants. In addition, they are convenient because the backlight in them eliminates the need for binding to windows during growing seedlings.
Usually racks are a metal construction. The size of it, the number of racks, their height and width can be determined by you individually. Each shelf is equipped with lamps for lighting. As a result, you get all the conditions for convenient and effective growing of seedlings.