Quality LED grow lights can have a huge impact on the health of your indoor gardening plants. This is especially true when you start seeding or growing food indoors.

If you’re not sure how to find the best indoor garden grow lights, this article is for you! Here you’ll find a list of the top indoor gardening grow lights for seeds, indoor herb gardens, potted plants, and all your indoor growing needs.

Whether you’re looking for big lights, small lights, or something in between, read on to find quality grow lights that fit your needs and budget.

Comparison of Different Types of LED Indoor Grow Lights

When choosing the best LED lights for your houseplants, there are several options to consider.

Each type of LED light we discuss below provides a different light spectrum that can have an impact on plant growth and health.

Full Spectrum LED Grow Lights
As the name suggests, full-spectrum LED grow lights emit a variety of lights that your plants will love. This includes the red and blue spectrums that are critical for plant nutrition and flower growth.

Since houseplants need a balanced light source for overall growth and health, full-spectrum lights are the best choice for all plants.

Red and Blue Spectrum LED Lights
Red and blue spectrum LED lights are designed to provide the specific spectrum indoor plants need to grow and bloom.

These lights are also known as “blurple” lights because they emit both blue and violet light.

Green Spectrum LED Light
Green spectrum LED lights are used to enhance the color and appearance of indoor plants. These lights don’t provide the spectrum needed for growth, but they can keep houseplants looking their best.

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With proper LED lighting, you can promote healthy growth and ensure your indoor garden thrives.

ECO Farm ECOD Samsung UV+ IR 800W Dimmable LED Grow Light

Features:

This ECO Farm LED grow light adopts the top quality equivalent diodes, producing a 800W PPF output of 2019.6 μmol/s and a PAR efficacy of 2.8umol/J, ideal for home and vertical farm planting. This full spectrum grow light meets the lighting requirements of every stage during the plant’s growth cycle. It consists of 660nm of red light, IR, 3000K and 6500K of the white light spectrum, providing plants in all stages from veg to flower with everything they need in the natural sunlight.LED plant lights enable cultivators to produce density buds, the 8-bar configuration allows widely application in the home grow (grow box and grow tents), climate rooms, commercial growing (horizontal and vertical), greenhouse cultivation, vertical racks, hydroponics.

Kind LED X750 Grow Light

Features:

Kind LED grow light uses top-of-the-line Osram and Phillips diodes to produce targeted full-spectrum light as well as UV and IR to enhance your plants during flowering. The KIND X750 uses the full spectrum white LED diodes used by top LED companies. Kind’s Targeted Full Spectrum is designed for plants to maximize harvest weight and plant quality. Our spectrum is the result of hundreds of thousands of hours of field testing in the Northern California medicinal plant industry. With 750 watts of power and a 4' x 4' footprint, the X750 is powerful enough for commercial growers while still being compact enough for single planting.

What size LED grow light do I need?

The most important piece of equipment in your grow room is your lights.

Why? Food for your plants alone, you need to provide your plants with good quality food for them to get high quality yields.

LED grow lights are now considered the best lighting choice by most growers due to their energy efficiency, durability and full spectrum.

However, with all the options and technical jargon, finding the right lighting for your project can feel a little overwhelming.

To determine what size LED grow lights you need, you first need to calculate the exact size of your growing space.

The size of your room to grow
When growing plants, a good rule of thumb is to use at least 50 watts of light per square foot of growing space.

We want to fill our plants with light (food) so they have enough energy to grow big, strong buds.

Therefore, we need to calculate the square footage (L x W) of the planting space.

We then multiply that number by 50w to get the rough wattage we need.

Example: I have a planting space that is 2 feet long and 3 feet wide. This gives me 6 square feet (2' x 3') of planting space. I then multiplied that number by 50w to get 300w. So for this example I need at least 300w LED grow lights.

How to Use Grow Lights for Indoor Gardening

Turn the grow lights on 12–16 hours a day and turn them off nightly. Plants need some rest in the dark, so it’s important to turn off lights for at least eight hours a day.

See product recommendations for how far the top of the plant should be from light. The recommended distance may vary depending on the intensity of the grow light. In general, the higher the wattage, the further the plants will be from the light.

A good rule of thumb is to keep the light at least six inches above the plants. Adjust the height of the lights as the plants grow to keep them at a healthy distance.

Conclusion

Plants have various light requirements throughout the growth cycle, including light color and light intensity. When you are choosing a new light fixture for your grow tent, you need to consider factors such as wattage, the type of plants you are growing and light spectrum, lumens, output as well as cost, electricity usage, and how much heat the light will generate. Use these ideas as a starting point rather than a complete list, as much reading as planting, but the results will be worth it!