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How far away should LED grow lights be from succulents? 2021 Reviews

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Indoor succulents looking a little lackluster? Often, this is due to a lack of sunlight, but the addition of a grow light can quickly take your plants from lifeless to vibrant. 

DO I NEED A GROW LIGHT?

Succulents need sunlight to live and grow, but it can be difficult to get enough light to your plants when they're indoors. Indoor light fixtures can be in the wrong wavelengths and are often too dim and far away to be useful. Even window sills have less light than it seems because much is filtered by the glass.

While some succulents can tolerate low, indoor light (Jade, Haworthia, and Gasteria), most varieties stretch and fade when kept inside permanently. To grow sun-loving succulents indoors, supplemental light is recommended. Fortunately, there are many types of grow lights available that mimic the sun's photosynthetic spectrum and provide your plant with synthetic sunshine.

HOW FAR AWAY SHOULD THE LIGHT BE?

Try to position your grow light 6.0" to 12.0" from your plants. You can keep the lamp closer to get brighter light over a smaller area, or farther away for less intense light over a larger area.

TYPES OF GROW LIGHTS

There are many varieties of grow lights to choose from with different sizes, looks, and purposes. Read on to learn how to select and use the best grow lights for all your sun-loving succulents. You'll also find specific product recommendations for the lights and gadgets that transformed our house and office plants. Because succulents are too beautiful not to have indoors and out!

1.Brite Labs 20 W LED Light

 

 

This growing lamp has two bars that contain a total of 40 chips.

It has most functions you can expect from many grow lights, It has automatic timers that let you dictate how long the grow lights stay on for (3,9 or 12 hours). The flexible gooseneck arms is meant to help you change the reach of the growing illumination. Also, there is a clip base that makes the lamp attachable to many surfaces. You’re almost spoilt for choice with this light’s dimming options- there are nine of them.

You can adjust the settings on its remote control system to have only red light on or other options on at once. You can even have the growing lights on or off on only one of two heads.

Plug the lamp to a power source with its USB cable and adapter, and it’ll be ready to go.

2.ECO Farm Quantum Board

 

The ECO Farm quantum board led grow light includes white, ultraviolet, and infrared rays. While the red and blue grow lights help with the usual photosynthetic needs of the succulent, the ultraviolet helps to sterilize them. The white grow lights also aid photosynthesis and increase the temperatures when things get a bit cold.

You might get the impressions that some of the growing lights- particularly those around the middle –aren’t functioning correctly. But they’re fine.

The infrared and ultraviolet grow lights are usually dim because gardeners will only need little amounts of them while growing a succulent. The recommended distance between this growing lamp and your succulent is 8”-30”.

Gardeners who want to use less energy may want to have a look at these grow lights too. It doesn’t take a lot of power to run, so it doesn’t demand much from your batteries.

The grow lights given by a single unit of this lamp should be enough for a small group of young plants or growing succulents.

3.Spider Farmer Quantum Board

 

 

Excellent full spectrum LED grow light- white, blue, red and IR (3000K, 5000K, 660nm and IR 760nm). 3000K diodes providing more reddish light and the 5000K providing more blueish. The 660nm red and IR light is especially useful during bloom, where it speeds up flowering time and boost yields. Turn your seeds into your own supply. And the light looks fairly natural , so it's good for accurately monitoring plant health.

No Fan Noise Free. High Safety performance MEAN WELL Driver, Fair Waterproofing. Update aluminum board is thick and sturdy, doesn't put out a tremendous amount of heat, high-quality protective covers for cables; User-Friendly Packaging. Quality components mean the light lasts longer, but they also save you money.

The recommended between the light and succulent is 11”-20”. It becomes functional when it’s connected to a power source through its adapter.

Conclusion

Succulents are resilient and do surprisingly well in unfriendly environments. But if you’re growing succulents yourself, you may have to help them out with the best grow light around, especially when things get dim and frosty.

The options we’ve provided here should help you keep your succulents healthy and glowing for as long as they are needed.

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