Benefits of LED grow lights for indoor plants

In the last years, the indoor gardening has become very popular and it keep growing in popularity, with many people opting to grow their own plants in their homes. One of the most important fact of indoor gardening plants is the lighting. While traditional incandescent bulbs or fluorescent bulbs can provide light, LED lights can provide a specific wavelengths of light, in particular, red and blue light are two wavelengths that are very  important for the growth of the plant.

Let's see the benefits of LED lighting for indoor plants, specifically on red and blue light.

Blue Light

LED blue light is necessary for vegetative growth. The chlorophyll in plants absorbs the blue light, and it helps to promote overall development of the plant, but  it's focused on leaf growth and root growth. The plants exposed to blue light are usually bushy and compacted.

One of the best benefits of using LED lights is that the light can be adjusted with the right amount of light for each stage of the plant. Providing the perfect amount of blue light, can insure that the plants grow healthy and strong.

Red Light

LED red light has the wavelength a hundred bigger than the blue light, and this type of light is important for the part of flowering and fruiting of a plant. In this case is also the chlorophyll of the plant  incharged of absorb the light and it is ideal for tomatoes, peepers and fruits like this. This kind of light also helps the vegetative stage grow and to develop more branches. With the red LED light you can control the flowering and fruiting stages of the plants.

Combination

You can also use both lights, separating the light depending on the stage of the plant, if it's only in the first part of the growing you increase the blue light, but when the flowering time arrives, you can increase the red light to improve the flowering and fruiting.

So you can have the benefits of the two lights, having a improve in all the benefits of the both lights.

Conclusion

LED lights has a lot of benefits compared with the old lighting for indoor growing, you can improve a lot of benefits for your indoor plants using LED lights, and if you use both of the colors you will see a lot of improves in your plants.