Proper plant care requires four main ingredients: water, food, light and love. While food and water should be used in moderation, some plants need lots of light, and love. Tropical plants need around eighteen hours of light, every day.

Plants are happier with the type of light that resembles the natural light of the sun. We are going to present in this article an environmental, economical type of light: the LED GROW LIGHT.

Being a plant lover and environmentally friendly person myself, I started to watch the LED market when it was only emerging, years ago. Now LED technology presents a way more efficient and affordable solution for your plants.

The most common uses of this type of lights are:
- Starting and care of baby plants in plant nurseries;
- Controlled care for orchids or flowering perennials;
- Hydroponic gardening with enhanced productivity;
- Growth control of aquatic plants, algae and bacteria in aquariums;
- Dramatic lighting for plants on displays, i.e. bonsai, cacti or flowers;
- Depth of field and color enhancement in terrariums;
- Intensive photosynthesis needs for accelerated growth: hemps.

Soon after entering the market, LED grow light quickly evolved to offer consumers the benefits of:
- More brightness per Watt of power consumed;
- Low temperature of emitted light;
- Warmth and color of the light is more exact and easy to control;
- Bulbs offer lower cost per lumen (luminosity);
- Greater safety in humid and wet environments due to low voltage operation and the quality of materials used.

Whether you are researching LED growing lights just to gain knowledge or to get help in the selection/buying process you'll have to get acquainted with the main advantages specific to LED lights.

The efficiency is expected to save you more than 35% up to 80% of your energy cost. A direct benefit of lower power is lower heat emissions abusing your plants. This means reducing drying and dehydration therefore eliminating the corresponding burns on leaves and flowers. They are high intensity lights without the high heat.

Long lifespan expected, averaging 75 thousand kilowatt hours, will reward your relatively higher initial investment cost. The HID lights have a 15 times shorter average life.

Best fit for plants regarding the levels of energy captured and used by their leaves to the most vital biological process: photosynthesis. The process efficiency for LED lights can go up to 90% with proper application.

Full spectrum light emitted by this type of LED is the most beneficial for the growth and the metabolism of all plants, especially the young ones.

Strong and shock resistant they will reduce or eliminate the repair expenses as well.

Less auxiliary equipment : cooling fans (usually they have their own, very quiet or do not require any at all), large reflectors (each LED acts as a little reflector by construction), ballasts, special electrical outlets or wires used for other high power consuming light devices.

For gardening applications the engineers developed high power LED grow lights. Even though LED are seen as tiny little bulbs, a large variety of very powerful ones (rated above 20 Watts) is now available.

This collection of great features and the wide range of applications make LED Grow lights the choice for today and certainly way into the future.