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How do plants capture and use light? This question has been studied for decades, and researchers have long known that plants use different frequencies for different purposes. Some colors make plants grow and bloom, while others promote compact growth. Designers used this information to develop lamps that would let them raise plants without sunlight. The new “grow lights” weren’t developed from scratch. They took existing lighting and modified them to produce more of the wavelengths that plants use, and they were successful.

Today, we have many lamps that can be used to help grow plants. These indoor LED grow lights range from incandescent bulbs, to fluorescent tubes, to very powerful high intensity discharge lamps. They all have the same problem- they produce too much light in damaging wavelengths that plants can’t use efficiently. A typical white light product produces light wavelengths from 380 nm (UV) up to and beyond 880nm (IR). Plants, on the other hand, primarily use light wavelengths from 400nm (blue) to 700nm (red). This range of light wavelengths has been labeled PAR or Photosynthetically Active Radiation. On average, nearly 82% of a traditional white light product’s light energy is of little benefit to plant growth

The researchers at SolarOasis took a different approach with their LED grow lighting- designing from the ground up; optimized for plant growth. Using LEDs, they selected the wavelengths of light that plants use most efficiently for growth and health. The result is a plant grow light that uses very little energy by providing only the wavelengths plant use. SolarOasis currently holds 12 patents granted or pending including the 1999 patent for the first LED grow light. In 2001 the decision was made to bring their efficient lighting option to the consumer market.

Today, SolarOasis lighting has been used throughout the world for over a decade. In 2006, SolarOasis announced LED Grow Master Global, LLC as their global master distributor. With over 20 years of experience in lighting, LED Grow Master brought with them an established network of distributors and good will relationships with the leaders of the industry. As a result, the “LGM” LED grow lighting line is currently distributed in the USA, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Spain, Bulgaria, and Denmark.

The growing popularity of LGM LED lighting is due to the patented wavelengths that are included. While SolarOasis utilizes the wavelengths shown by Science to promote growth and health in horticulture- these wavelengths are not accurately demonstrated in light measurement. All meters designed to measure light today are designed to measure only light, and not as it relates to plant growth. Light meters are designed to measure “natural” sunlight, not artificial light of any type.