Lamps for highlighting seedlings on the windowsill

As is known, the length of a light day greatly influences the development of seedlings - flowering, ovary of fruit, their health and harmonious maturation. But in apartments, when in the end of winter seeding begins, it is impossible to provide plants with ideal conditions. That's why it is advisable to purchase lamps for illuminating seedlings on the windowsill.

What kind of lamps to illuminate seedlings?

The best option for a good growth of young plants will be phyto-lamps, which are designed specifically for this purpose. Their spectrum is as close as possible to the natural.

Similar self-made LED lamps have similar positive qualities. For their manufacture, buy strips with red and purple light bulbs, which eventually give a lilac lighting, accelerating photosynthesis in plant cells. Two blue stripes have one red.

But the illumination of seedlings with a fluorescent lamp is undesirable, and even useless, since there is no use for it of plants. Cold light does not give the plants the spectrum necessary, and their development will not differ from simple lighting from the window.

The seedlings are brightened on cloudy days for 12-14 hours, and the lamp is also turned on when the sun begins to set.

How to strengthen the lamp to illuminate seedlings?

Variants of lamp fastening two - stationary and mobile. In the first case, it will be necessary to select a lamp that is as long as the opening of the window and, with the help of small plates on both sides, strengthen the lamp. In this case, the height can not be adjusted, except that the stops can be made several at different heights.

Also, the lamp can be fixed on a wire suspension, which is fastened at the top of the window sill to an ordinary large nail or screw. It can be lowered or raised higher as the seedlings grow. But in this and the other case, you will have to sacrifice the integrity of the slopes of the windowsill.