Metal halide grow lights create fantastic light under which your plants will thrive. These grow lights are a HID, or high-intensity discharge, light. They are small grow lamps that produce a lot of light, and yet are more efficient to run than either incandescent or fluorescent light bulbs. Indoor gardeners and hydroponics enthusiasts get great results with their plants when they use metal halide lights. indoor gardening Metal halide lamps are made up of several different parts. There are tungsten electrodes which are connected to a quartz arc tube, where the light is produced. Each different type of grow light has a particular color-rendering index and correlated color temperature. This is true of the metal halide grow lights. Some of these lamps have an 80 color-rendering index, on a scale of zero to 100.
What Every Indoor Gardener Should Know About Metal Halide Grow Lights
May 26th, 2009 | Home