Metal Halide Lighting

Metal halide lighting is the type of lighting that is best used when the cannabis crops are seedlings, these seedlings will burn if the lighting used is to harsh and will not grow if it does not have to have the right lighting. This type of lighting is considered closest to a cool florescent lighting that gives off a blue spectrum and that is safe for delicate seedlings.

If the person growing the cannabis plants in the house only has a certain budget and can get one type of lighting the metal halide is the wise choice rather than the high sodium lighting that would burn seedlings.

Another choice to use both types of lighting is to purchase the fixture for the high sodium lighting and to place a metal halide bulb in the fixture of the same wattage as the fixture calls for the high sodium lights. This is a way of having the metal halide that is important for the light when the cannabis plants are seedlings and the high sodium are just as important during other growth periods.

The metal halide lighting is important for cannabis seedlings whether they are being grown in soil or a hydroponics crop in the house. What is needed no matter which type of cannabis growing is being done is the lighting with a blue spectrum, so that the seedlings are able to grow healthy during the phase between seedlings and growing to the transplant stage.