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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