Reply To: Lighting/ color question for indoor garden

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Plants need Quality of light according to the color or wavelength. When sunlight passes through a Prism or Raindrops, it splits into red, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet colors.
Red and Blue are responsible for plant’s growth and flowering time. Green color light is not so effective but the color green is its reflection. Blue light responsible for primary vegetative leaf growth.
Indoor growing condition of light quality:-
-Starting time of seed white with high in blue range.
-Spectrum fluorescent bulbs with more red colors helpful for Flowering plant.
-Red & orange is incandescent light, but generally helpful in supplementing plant growth producing too much heat.