Houseplants are capable to decorate the apartment, but for their correct growth it is necessary to create optimal conditions. During the winter period the flowers slow down the development, and even stop it. The lack of sunlight is the main reason of it. For this reason skilled hostesses help the favourites special lamps.
How to define that to plants it is a lot of or not enough lighting
When "the house garden" receives necessary amount of light, all flowers grow beautiful, with the strong and healthy escapes which are intensively painted by flowers and leaves. Each flower can prompt to the owners about lack of the sun.
To the room tells the following about bad lighting:
- small leaves;
- the slowed-down growth of plant;
- thin, long and very soft stalks;
- motley plants change color of the leaves;
- significant increase on distance stalks between leaves;
- "modest" formation of flower kidneys.
Demonstrate to excess lighting:
- faded leaves;
- solar burns (at first on plant there are yellow spots, and then brown);
- "leaf fall".
At surplus of illumination of plant it is necessary pritenyat. For example, between window and flower it is possible to place the sheet of the newspaper.
Types of lamps for window plants
Lamps for house plants differ not only the principle of work, power and price category. Before going to shop, it is worth understanding for what the lamp will be used: for illumination of plants in dark, cloudy weather or in the esthetic purposes. Besides, when choosing lamp the sensitivity of flora to heat is of great importance.
The most popular sources of artificial lighting among the population for flowers are:
- Such lamps form luminous flux in red and blue range when which mixing light of pink (purple) shade turns out. It is quite often not pleasant for human eye. However thanks to such lamps various photochemical processes which have beneficial influence on rates of development of house plants become more active.
- Incandescence bulbs. In the easiest way "increases" of lighting, installation near pots of the ordinary table lamp is. Very simple, but not esthetic decision. The halogen bulb consumes a lot of electric power, in its range there is no blue color necessary to room flora, it generates heat. It is quite difficult to place such lamp so that the plant was damaged by high temperature.
- LED illumination. Only LED lamps can brag of big life cycle (70 thousand h). Thanks to durability and economical consumption of energy, LEDs are quite popular. The LED mechanism of artificial lighting allows to receive with ease necessary spectral range without use of light filters. Such lamps for flowers do not contain mercury and in them it is possible to change the direction of radiation.
- Gas discharge lamps. In them there is flask with special type of gas. These lamps share on:
- sodium, i.e. the lamps working in sodium vapors. They give orange and yellow light. The most widespread look are DNaT lamps with flask in the form of cylinder. Sodium lamps apply in greenhouses and when the strong luminous source is necessary.
- metallogalagenny lamps are filled with mercury, inert gas and various radiating additives. They have high luminous efficiency in blue range that is ideal for seedling. Metallogalagenka stimulate laying of buds, forming of interstices and early blossoming, prevent the increased growth and intensify vegetation.
- fluorescent lamps are covered with phosphor inside. Such bulbs are energy saving. As a rule, they are used for illumination since they have good light return. The main advantage of LED lamp – durability.
- bezrtutny gas lamps are daylight (xenon) and orange light (neon). The gas-discharge tube of such lighting equipment is filled with inert gas.
As it is correct to apply lamps
It is the best of all to dosvechivat houseplants from above as at side additional lighting the stalks will be bent. It is necessary to have lamps for photophilous flowers at distance of 20-30 cm, for shade-enduring – 40-50 cm. Height of 5-7 cm will be suitable for illumination of seedling.
Appearance of burns on leaves, speaks about too low placement of lamps. The "pale" plant and the extended escapes testify to long distance between luminous source and flowers.
Lamps have to work not less than 12 h a day if plants are highlighted only by artificial light. When using lamps as additional lighting, for example, in cold season, there is enough their work for 4-5 h.
To understand large number of various illuminations quite easily. For this purpose it is only necessary to study requirements of plants and to choose the lamp which is the most suitable to your flower. After installation of additional lighting it is possible to enjoy beautiful and healthy flowers all the year round.