Black Dog LED Grow Lights

Lycopersicon lycopersicum Side-by-Side Growth Analysis: Hortilux HID vs Black Dog LED Abstract Nine Super Sweet 100 tomato plants (Lycopersicon lycopersicum) were started from seed and grown for 37 days with controlled nutrient and H2O input, ambient CO2 temperature, and humidity under three different light sources (Hortilux 400-watt HID bulb, .... Read More

Gizmodo is a great blog that covers everything from current events to gadgets and electronics from all walks of life. They recently put a call out for some advice on indoor gardening. Black Dog LED was happy to share some of our growing knowledge from around the office. At Black Dog LED we take customer support seriously. Every single person that a .... Read More

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGKmCJ7EElY March 2012 Do LED lights work with all kinds of plants? Yes they do! This video was taken during preparation for the Maximum Yield Indoor Gardening Expo in Denver. Since we are local, we wanted to be able to bring plants actually grown under our lights. The lettuce plants were about 1 inch starts and th .... Read More

Luminous flux is a measure of the amount of light that is visible to the human eye, and lumens are the unit used to describe this measurement. So, why don't lumens matter when it comes to growing plants? Basically, lumens will show you how well a human eye will be able to see under a given light source... but plants don't have human eyes. .... Read More

What it is, and Why it Matters Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) refers to one way of measuring the range of light wavelengths (400–700 nanometers [nm]) that can be used for photosynthesis (see absorption range for photosynthesis chart above). This range covers the visible spectrum of light, which includes red (700–635 nm), orange (635 .... Read More

Photosynthesis Explained for the Indoor Gardener Although there is more than one type of photosynthesis, oxygen is released during the photosynthesis process in plants, so plants employ oxygenic photosynthesis. Oxygenic photosynthesis is the manner through which plants utilize light energy to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) into gluco .... Read More

Critical for Large Yields Even though root zone temperature is critical to optimal plant performance, most indoor gardening enthusiasts don't spend much time thinking about it. There can be many reasons why an indoor gardener hasn't fine tuned his or her root zone temperature, such as: No cool night period, Satisfaction with the current pe .... Read More