Grow Lights Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide

Grow Lights Simulate Sunlight

By Julia Gloss

Grow lights simulate sunlight and are placed on plants to help them grow indoors. If you have some seedlings and you want them to keep growing, even though it is dark, cloudy and raining outside, you can place a grow light close to the plants and the seedlings will continue to grow.

You may like to move your flower pots into the house when it is cold and raining, but you can help your plants to continue to grow with grow lights.

You can place grow lights on tomato plants and will help stimulate your plants when you grow your tomatoes indoors or in a greenhouse. I grow some of my tomato plants in a greenhouse and I have recently started to use grow lights when the sun has disappeared behind dark clouds.

There was one time, when I did not know much about grow lights, not until recently. I saw them on display at the nursery and I bought a couple of grow lights to try them out.

Grow Lights Simulate Sunlight

Honestly, I don’t know much about grow lights, but I do know what they do. You can use them in your home to simulate sunlight for your plants when they cannot grow outside.

Some use them to start tomatoes for their gardens, but many others use them for things that perhaps they don’t want other people to know they are growing.

Though I have never done this, I do know some people who have. Looking back, I realize that I could have been in big trouble for it being in the house I was living in, even though it had nothing to do with me.

While in college I lived in a very large house with ten other people. We all had our own rooms, though we shared some common rooms like the living room, kitchen, and the basement.

Using Grow Lights

One of the people we lived with had a room in the basement, and he was doing some stuff down there that most of us did not know about right away. He had found a space behind the wall and was growing something illegal there, and he was using grow lights to do it.

I didn’t know anything was going on until I went down into the basement sitting area to get away from all of the noise upstairs.

I noticed a strange light coming through a crack between the paneling and I also noticed a rather strange smell. When I asked what was going on, my roommate took me in and showed me his grow lights and what he was growing with them. I was shocked, and I honestly didn’t know what to say.

Live And Let Live

I guess right then and there I should have turned him and his grow lights into someone, but I was just one of those live and let live types. Perhaps if I knew he was selling what he was growing to kids I would have felt differently.

What he grew with those grow lights was for his own use though, so I didn’t say a word. I can’t say I’d feel the same if I were presented with the same situation today, but back then I just tried to ignore it.

I stayed out of the basement and moved out as soon as I could. Though I don’t know whatever happened to him, I do know the cops were there a few months later to break up a party. I didn’t hear anything about him being arrested though, so perhaps his grow lights went undetected.

Shopping For Grow Lights

I was shopping for some plants at the nursery and saw some grow lights on display. It made me reminisce about those lights in the distant past. I know I have a problem with a couple of indoor plants, where I need to take them outside during the day. I have decided to buy a couple of grow lights and now those indoor plants seem just fine.

I have decided to use a grow light in the greenhouse, as sometimes it can get dark, especially when it is cloudy and raining outside. I have placed the grow light on some of the more delicate plants that require a lot of light.

One of the morning glory flowers opens up, when I place light directly from the grow light.

About the Author:
Julia Gloss has written a number of articles on flowers and gardening including Columbine Flowers, Cactus Gardening, Morning Glory, Growing Vegetable Garden, Gardening Gloves, Plant Nursery, Flower And Garden.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.

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