| Hydroponics gardening uses grow lights to light the | | | | movement is the production of light. |
| plants properly in order for photosynthesis to occur | | | | The color of the light emitted by these types of |
| and for the plants to grow and thrive. Lighting is | | | | grow lamps is based on the size of the gap in the |
| crucial to every kind of indoor gardening situation, | | | | electron chain. The gap size affects the frequency of |
| because without adequate light, the plants will be | | | | the photon, and this is why it has an impact on the |
| stunted and not grow to their full potential. LED grow | | | | color of the light produced. Low-frequency light |
| lights can be used to good effect in an indoor plant | | | | produced by an LED light is used to light remote |
| growing situation. | | | | controls for one of many common examples, |
| LED refers to light-emitting diode. A diode has two | | | | because it it infrared light. |
| terminals, and it allows current to flow in one | | | | If you are growing plants indoors, then the color of |
| direction and not in another. It is a simple | | | | the light that your grow light emits is quite vital to |
| semiconductor. | | | | your plants' health. Young plants at the seedling stage |
| Photons are units of light. Atoms contain photons, | | | | require blue light in order to grow properly. Mature |
| and it is the photons that produce light. They | | | | plants, such as a flowering or fruiting plants, require |
| produce light when electrons move around and | | | | red and orange light in order to get the plants to |
| change positions. Electrical current, in an LED lamp, | | | | produce the flowers and fruit that you want. All of |
| flows across the diode, and when this happens, it | | | | this is dependent on the light that you use with your |
| causes a change in the movement of the electrons. | | | | plants. LED lamps come in a wide variety of colors, |
| The positively-charged electrons will move in the | | | | so it is easy to get the exact grow lamps you need |
| opposite direction from the negatively-charged | | | | in order to get the results you want from your |
| electrons. A semiconductor is made more conductive | | | | indoor plants. |
| to electrical flow when free electrons are added to | | | | The advantage to using LED lights is that they do |
| the conductor material, creating negatively charged | | | | not get hot as they are in operation, and they also |
| areas, or when they are taken away, leaving gaps in | | | | do not have a filament, which you find in |
| the chain, and positively charged areas. Electrical | | | | incandescent light bulbs, so they often have a longer |
| current flows over these areas, and it causes the | | | | productive life because of this. |
| electrons to move. The side effect of all this | | | | |