Do the indoor succulents need 'grow lights' during the winter?
How long do I have to keep the rising lights on in the winter?
Succulents, like other trees, have growing and dormant cycles. Winter is also a dormant season for most succulents, which needs less sun, but indoors they will still usually consume as much as they can.
Succulents can not go into true dormancy when growing indoors until you compel them to change temperature and light.
Both succulents require darkness every day to ensure a stable growth cycle, but they need at least six sunshine hours a day to remain alive. If you use grow lights for your indoor succulents, you can keep them on for around 12-14 hours, mimicking natural daylight plus a few hours.
What are Grow Lights?
Is the Grow Light Good to Succulents?
A succulent that doesn’t get enough sunshine starts to stretch out. This is easy to spot since succulents appear to grow slowly, and when you find the contrary, your succulent is more likely to be subject to etiolation. The plant is etiolated as it grows too tall, thin, and spread due to inadequate sunlight.
What to look for in the Grow Light
The output of Light:
The temperature of color:
Grow Lights Type
Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs):
- Recommended: full-spectrum white LED.
- It emits bright light but very little heat so as not to “warm” plants.
- Power effective and low-cost in the long run
Fluorescent Grow Light:
- Recommended: tubes of T5
- It can be reasonably inexpensive for short-term bulbs with shorter lifespans than LEDs.
- Indoor Succulents In Fluorescent T5 Tubes
High-Intensity Discharge (HID) and Metal Halide Discharge
- Suggested for big, professional growing activities
- Produce the largest volume of light and heat
- Consume far more energy and result in expensive power costs for the entire life of each lamp.
How do you use the Grow Light for succulent?
What kind of Grow Light can I use?
- Dimensions: 5.59 x 5.59 x 4.29 inches
- Price: $29.99
- Lightness: 5,024 lumens
This flexible, full-range, white LED bulb can plug into the lamp of your choice. It’s just large enough to light up a few containers of succulents or a few plants that still have some natural sunshine. We love the adaptability of this little bulb and how inconspicuously it functions at home.
Sansi LED bulb
- Dimensions: 4.0’L x 1.9’W with flexible hanging chains and 6.0’L power cord
- Price: $93.99
- Lightness: 14,000 lumens
If you want to keep a lot of succulents indoors, this is a high-quality and inexpensive choice. 8 square feet is enough space to house a generous selection of plants. It fits well over a table, but all the plants under it may have equal light needs. There is also a brighter screen available for $90 with twice as many LEDs. We prefer the brighter variant for full sun varieties like Echeveria and Cactus.
LED Panels from Durolux
- Dimensions: 5.8″L x 3.8″W x 3.8″H with a 15.0’L power cable
- Price: $150.00
- Lightness: 2,000 lumens
This thin, hanging can light one of the most trendy we’ve ever seen on the market. It offers ample light to a few medium-sized plants and looks fantastic to do it. Soltech also sells a $200 larger light that emits 4,000 lumens of light.
Soltech LED Aspect
Extra Wide LED Indoor Herb Garden
SANSI LED Grow Lights for Indoor Plants, Full Spectrum
Jump Start 2′ T5 Grow Light System
Ankace 5 Dimmable Levels Plant Grow Lights for Indoor Plants
Roleadro 75W Grow Light for Indoor Plants Full Spectrum
Other Useful Gadgets For Indoor Growing
The outlet timer makes growing succulents under growing lights amazingly simple. You will configure it to automatically turn it on and off at any time you want to. It makes it easy to change the length of “daylight” during the year and keeps your plants on a constant photo-period, even while you’re gone.
7 Day Programmable Digital Timer Switch with 2 Outlets
Healthy ventilation aids tremendously in controlling pests and illnesses, but it may be challenging to accomplish indoors. These little fans are strong but silent and can clip them around your plants.
6-Inch Clip Convertible Table-Top & Clip Fan Two Quiet Speeds
1 gallon & a 32 oz Spray Bottles – Made in The USA – FDA Registered
Frequently Asked Questions
- If you don’t have a grow light for your succulent, or if you’re out of space under the grow light, use a little trick: position it next to the mirror, well placed, to give it a significant extra brightness.
- Don’t have your succulents at just one angle to the light source. Rotate every week so that each side absorbs the same amount of light.
- Place your hand on the plant and put it under the sun. If it is humid, the plant is too close to the rising light and should be repositioned.
- It’s never a smart idea to put a succulent that’s unexpectedly overwintered in your home or veranda in the sun. We urge you to get used to this adjustment to prevent burns progressively. Shade it gently for a few weeks with a shading net (or mosquito net) that can filter 25 to 50 percent of the sun’s rays. Or don’t point it south.