SolarOasis Ruby Glow LED Grow Lights
For those of us in the more northerly latitudes, winter not only brings temperatures too cold to grow plants outside but also fewer hours of daylight. The answer for many is to grow their plants, veggies, herbs and other edibles inside, but this can be a costly venture both for the equipment and the amount of electricity that that gear can use. LED to the rescue!
A company called LEDtronics has introduced what they’re calling SolarOasis Ruby Glow LED Lights. Ruby Glow lights are composed of clusters of LED bulbs with each cluster using less than 2 watts of power. You get the cool operating temps of LED which translates to lower burn and fire risks. They’re using a proven combination of LED light colours to produce only red and blue light waves which is what the plants thrive on.
LEDtronics is selling these grow lights as LED-PlantBars with 3 of the LED clusters in each bar. Each PlantBar provides a 1ft by 2ft coverage area at 12-18 inch plant to light distance. One LED-PlantBar with power supply is retailing for $159.95 USD and the per unit price drops as you buy more bars.
You can catch a more thorough explanation of this lighting system on this page from the LEDtronics web site and then the product page for the Ruby Glow Grow lights is here.
[via GroovyGreen]
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7 opinions for SolarOasis Ruby Glow LED Grow Lights
Blaine Moore (Run to Win)
Dec 21, 2005 at 12:10 pm
Very cool! I’ll have to look into them again when I actually have a house and the means and space to grow something indoors.
Rowland Lives
Sep 11, 2007 at 4:04 pm
all I know that is led-grow-master.com is putting amazing results regardless of what your growing. Saving your electric and I strongly suggest the LGM5 unit
Jonathan
Sep 11, 2007 at 4:08 pm
LEDs are an incredibly efficient way to light.
Grizzel
Oct 7, 2007 at 5:19 am
I just brught there pro-5 series
looking forward to mastering them
g
Dec 13, 2007 at 8:24 am
it wolud be great to start getting them in the grow shops here (UK) now. At the moment we only have the product avaliable from an obscure website that most people are unlikely to happen to visit by chance, unless they type in LED growlight, which most will not. and there is no buy online option on that site. I’m sure more people wolud buy if they knew about it, and more growshops stocked it. I wolud like to see them more widespread over here.
Bob
Jan 18, 2008 at 11:13 am
I can tell you from first hand experence that LEDs are failures when it comes to growing plants.
Bob C
Feb 15, 2008 at 11:32 am
I have been growing 20 plants with grow lights ant t-5s and they are comming out just right.
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