Why Choose LED’s over HID’s for growing marijuana?

Consider the five reasons why I know phlizon led grow lights are the best grow lights for cannabis.

1. ENERGY EFFICIENCY

The technology finally matches the hype. Light-emitting diodes, or LED, are a type of solid-state lighting that uses a semiconductor to convert electricity into light. Phlizon's LED diodes can be six-seven times more energy efficient than conventional HPS cannabis grow lights and cut energy use by more than 60 percent.

1. RUN TIME

Good-quality LED diodes can have a useful life of 50,000 hours or more — meaning they can last more than 25 times longer than traditional HPS or HID bulbs. That is a life of more than five years if run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Compare this five years of durable LED running time to 9 months on a HPS bulb and the cost savings is obvious.

1. SPECTRUM

Philizon grow lights has a proprietary technology that creates a full unbroken spectrum (much like the sun) to facilitate photosynthesis in cannabis. Each Grow  fixture has been developed to provide an optimum light distribution for cannabis crops. The diodes are designed to ensure that the light penetrates deeper into the crop in the most efficient way possible. Each diode and fixture is manufactured to custom specifications to mimic the sun, creating the environment crops need to produce both substantial yield and quality.

1. LESS HEAT = LESS AIR CONDITIONING = LESS WATER

Unlike high pressure sodium bulbs — which release 70 percent of their energy as heat — LEDs use energy far more efficiently with little wasted heat. LED use lowers your heat mitigation protocol translating into less air conditioner use.  The cost associated with constantly cooling the air your HPS lighting fixtures have heated can be lowered by at least 60%. Less heat also means more efficient use of water. Lower water evaporation translates into a leaner watering schedule.

1. THE BOTTOM LINE

In the survival of the fittest landscape of marijuana cultivation knowing and refining your cost per pound to grow is essential. Successful cultivators aim for $300 to $500 cost per pound production averaged over time. Switching from outdated HPS and other traditional artificial plant lights to technologically advanced LED horticultural lighting is one of the many breakthrough moves to decreasing costs in large-scale commercial cultivations.