Metal Halide Grow Lamps Produce Bright White Light

January 30, 2019

The light produced from metal halide (MH) lamps looks white and bright with a cool visual temperature. While you can also use MH lamps during the flowering stages of growth, many growers employ them only when growing seedlings, cuttings, or vegetative transplants, or bulking up vegetative growth on larger plants.

Metal halide lamps produce a cool, blue tinted white light.
PC: Leslie F. Halleck

MH Lamps generally emit a light spectrum range that closely mimics that of natural sunlight, weighted to the blue and violet spectrum, so they are good for all vegetative stages of plant growth.

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