How To Use Orchid Lights


by Casper Dohn - Date: 2010-10-15 - Word Count: 409 Share This!

If you are planting orchids indoors, then lights is necessary when there is less light during the season, usually during the cold season, when it is restricted, depending on where you are. If you face this situation, then use artificial orchid lights to help them grow.

Many people have grown orchids indoors, with the help of artificial lights. You can use normal fluorescent orchid lights. Hang it about a foot above their orchids. It is also possible to have the combination of hot and cold fluorescent lamps. Cool spectrum fluorescent blue supply normal light while fluorescent lights provide the red spectrum of light, warmer for your plants.
It is important that the provider checks amount of lights required before buying orchid lights. There are thousands Orchids available and each orchid species has its own little "special" about the use of the environment, including the amount of light.

Moreover, the increase of light is also expensive. Typically, these types of orchid lights, offer a variety of frequencies, which appears as sunlight and gives system the maximum benefit. You can obtain these lights from nurseries, garden supply stores, or online. Check the staff has experience in the lights.

However, you can still get a fluorescent success. Put the plant in a window where you get the light that is not in flames. For example, having your own factory in the eastern front of the box is a good choice. If you have a choice, and the sun is very strong then shadow the window and partially cover the sun. This protects the crop to get extra light or offer them the light they need.

Every variety of orchids has different light requirement. For the orchid house, the artificial lighting will give you the most control. You can buy orchid lights that emulate bright light as sun, which is necessary for orchid such as Cymbidium, Vanda, Cattleya, and Dendrobium. Orchids such as Oncidinae, Intergenerics, Oncidium, Cattleya, miniature Phalanaenopsis and Phramepediyms require average light. Jewel orchid is the one that requires light source, which is intense and indirect. These are some Paphiopidilems and Angraecoids. LED Candles orchids are available and provide high spectrum light for your indoor plants. Please remember that if your orchid is an epiphyte, which has a root system require sunlight for photosynthesis.

Orchid lights can help and make growing orchid easier. No matter the type of orchid light selected, you need to be sure that you know the preferences of individual light for your orchid.

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