Hello everyone. Hope you are having an illuminating day and I say that because today

you guessed it we're talking about a question I keep getting and so I figured what I would do is just

answer it here on the podcast for those of you who listen and I appreciate every single one of you.

And that would be grow lights specifically relatively affordable growlites that are

fluorescence. So this is for people who are looking to start seedlings. This is for

people who are having an indoor garden. Maybe that's herbs, maybe that's vegetables, some leafy greens, things like that that don't require

an absolute abundance of a light, but do require more than a typical window sill will give you.

So in today's episode, we're going to talk about

T5 grow lights and the first thing we're going to answer is of course what are they right so

T5 what does that actually mean? T5 is a bulb that is 5 8th inch in diameter and there's some of the most

efficient fluorescent bulbs you're going to find on the market. There are T8 and T12 bulbs, but those have really fallen out of favor. They're not very efficient.

And T-5s just simply are the way to go when it comes to fluorescence at least. Now there's many other types of light but we're talking

about fluorescence in today's episode. So what are the benefits? They're quite

efficient when compared to other types of indoor lighting like a high

pressure sodium, a metal halide, or a plasma light or a ceramic metal halide,

and efficiency really matters a lot.

You're going to save money on your electricity bill and you don't want to overlight a plant. If you can get away with an efficient, relatively inexpensive light,

then you should because it's going to save you money up front,

because it's cheaper, and it's going to save you money

every single day because you're not running up a crazy electricity bill.

Now they also last a long time.

Most fluorescent growlites last 20,000 plus hours,

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