Choosing the Right LED Grow Light for Cannabis Clone Process

cannabis clone has obvious advantages over growing from seeds, and it's not as complicated as you might think. When you come across a particular cannabis strain or phenotype that you really like, you'll want to clone it to achieve the purpose of producing the same effect. With cloning, you can reproduce exactly the strain you satisfied. Because the cloned plant has the same genes as the mother.  This allows you to easily get the same characteristics as the original parent such as taste, cannabinoid composition and content, yield, growth cycle, etc.

Cloning process is also a process of differentiation and growth development of cloning branches. So plant cloning is also involved in photosynthesis as well. Therefore, we need to select suitable led grow light for the cloning of cannabis to promote the rapid formation of seedlings.

Why not use sunlight

Compared with led grow light, sunlight is mutable and not controllable. Sunlight does not provide an uniform, consistent light for the cloning process. This unstable factor will greatly affect the possibility of successful cloning. So for the cloning process, the adverse factor like this should be avoid when possible.  LED grow light, however, is completely different. 

lighting cycle

You can control the lighting time at will. You can customize the lighting cycle to suit your clone's needs. Unlike the sun, which rises in the east and sets in the west, the day and night alternate, and the longest lighting time in a day is only about 13 hours. Using led grow light ,you can give the crop any proportion of light period and dark period like 18 hours of lighting and 6 hours of darkness. This is beyond the reach of the sun.

spectrum

In terms of spectrum, sunlight covers all wavelengths of light. This makes it seem like the best spectrum. On closer inspection, however, this is not the case. Because some of the light may not be necessary right now and it also may not be beneficial to the crops being grown, even it may be counterproductive. For example, The cloned branches are so weak that they cannot be exposed at all to high-energy UV light, which is not the light needed for cloning. Using sunlight to provide lighting for the clone photosynthesis, the UV light in the sunlight may destroy the clone branches and cause the clone to fail. LED grow lights allow you to customize the spectrum. This can help you get rid of the harmful and useless components in sunlight, and customize different spectrum for different plants.

light intensity

It is difficult and impossible to control the intensity of sunlight. But if you want to control the intensity of led grow lights, there are ways. You can estimate the required power of the light fixture at the beginning of purchase decision. You can choose dimmable led grow light fixtures or even you can regulate the lighting intensity by adjusting the distance between lighting fixture and plants. Different crops require different lighting intensity, the same to different stages of growth. The cloning stage is similar to the formation of seedlings, which do not require too strong light intensity. If you use the sun to provide light, you can't quantify this factor, but led grow lights do.

Four simple rules for choosing right clone-used LED grow light 

• It is strongly recommend that before you purchase led grow light devices for your clone operation you identify your practical requirements. This will help guide your decision in relation to the equipment you purchase. For instance, the new clones are weak, they do not need strong light. So the led grow lights you purchase don’t need a too high power. 20W-30W will be enough.
• Generally growers like to put trays of cloned marijuana branches on stacked shelves. This means, the distance between lighting fixtures and the top of cloned branches is not very great. Be specially choosing the right structure size of led grow light, the lighting devices will fit well on the shelves.
• Be sure you have known the plant you intend to clone and the rough spectrum before you buy. Avoid being influenced by aggressive marketing campaigns that make unrealistic claims. The main stages involved in cloning are mainly the differentiation rooting stage and vegetative growth stage, no flowering stage, no fruit stage, no harvest stage. So the spectrum of led grow light specially used for cloning should be more conducive to the vegetative growth stage of branches.
• In terms of professionalism and efficiency, it is worth considering to consult with a professional led grow light manufacturer who can ensure you make the right purchase decision by analyzing your actual needs and providing lighting solution with their professional technical knowledge.