Over the past few years, LED grow lights have set the bar for indoor growing. With constant advances in technology, today's LEDs offer exceptional performance and efficiency: whether you’re a hobbyist or a commercial grower, there's an LED solution to meet your demands.
In this blog, we’ll introduce you to the top next-generation LED grow lights available in our current selection, designed to maximise your yields and reduce energy costs.
Budget-Friendly LED Grow Lights
One of the few remaining advantages of old-school HPS lighting is the low barrier to entry in terms of cost: you can get up and running for as little as £49.99 by picking up a digital HPS lighting kit. LEDs are superior in almost every way, but they do come at a higher cost and will require a larger initial outlay.
Luckily, the team at Omega Lighting have the solution. If you’re on a tight budget, you can dip your toe in the water with a Spectra LED for as little as £119.99. Don’t be fooled by the prices – these things pack some serious punch. Watt for watt, you can expect them to blow HPS lighting out of the water.
The award for standout budget LED has to go to the mighty Omega Black 720-watt LED. It's hard to figure out how the team at Omega have managed to cram so many features into a unit that retails at £374.99! Check the web listing and you'll find this fixture may be discounted even further! In terms of sheer value for money, you won't find anything better. You get a full-spectrum lighting output that produces exceptional plant growth at all stages (veg and flower). The diodes are spread out over six bars to deliver an even footprint, and the framework is foldable, making it quick and easy to set up.
The Omega Infinity Range – Cutting-Edge Power and Versatility
For serious growers looking to push things as far as possible, the Omega Infinity range delivers advanced LED technology with a focus on efficiency, versatility, and precise control.
All units come with professional-grade diodes that are extremely efficient, laying down highly intense outputs while losing very little energy as heat. Naturally, Omega Infinity grow lights are full-spectrum, ensuring that your plants receive an output that's close to natural mid-day sunlight. This increases rates of photosynthesis, speeding up the rate at which plants can use light energy to convert CO2 from the surrounding air into sugars, thus increasing growth rates and yields. Every Infinity lighting fixture can be dimmed using a tethered controller that adjusts output settings in 25% increments. These lights come with 50,000 life spans when run at 100% intensity giving you over a decade of use on a 12/12 lighting pattern.
There's a size to suit every grow space. If you're flowering in a relatively small area, or you're looking for something for the vegetative stages, take a look at the 200-watt and 300-watt Infinity grow lights. We generally recommend running the 200-watt version in a space between 60cm x 60cm and 80cm x 80cm. The 300-watt version can cover up to 100cm x 100cm.
The 600-watt model is by far the most popular. It's optimised to max-out yields in a 120cm x 120cm grow space. The biggest and best LED, however, is the 1000-watt unit. At 3099 μmol/s PPF, it's an absolute beast that will easily cover a 150cm x 150cm grow space. With that said, at 109cm x 119cm x 9cm, it can physically fit inside a 120cm x 120cm grow space. You can then run it at 750 watts and push things to their limits. You'll benefit from the fact that the diodes are being under-driven, increasing the lifespan of the fixture, and if you've got particularly strong plants, you may even be able to raise things up to the top setting, though you should only ever do so when proceeding with extreme caution! With ten bars, you'll also get a light spread that's hard to beat, giving you a flat, even canopy that makes your indoor garden as efficient as possible.
Unlike the above-mentioned Omega Black, the Infinity comes with controller ports, which make it compatible with the Omega Matrix Controller. This opens the door up to a host of features. You can fine-tune the output of your Infinity LEDs in 1% increments, allowing you to squeeze out as much performance as possible without causing stress. You can program your lighting schedules, removing the need for contactors and timers, and there's an auto-dimming feature that lowers output levels when temperatures get too high. You can
Cloning and Propagation
The latest generation of cloning and propagation LEDs is helping growers to improve their turnaround times and success rates with cuttings and seedlings. As is the case with every LED that we stock, they feature much broader outputs than HID lighting - in this instance tuned towards the blue areas of the spectrum. T5s have been the go-to propagation lights for decades, and they've done us proud, but the industry has now moved on, and Omega Clone LED Strips and LUMii Envirogro TLEDs blow them clean out of the water in terms of performance, growth rates and energy efficiency.
Omega Clone LED Strips are designed to replace Sunblaster T5 style units. They are a big favourite among popular growers on social networks, and our customers can't get enough of them. These strips deliver just the right intensity for young plants, promoting rapid development during their most vulnerable stages. Omega build their units with commercial growers in mind, and for this reason, up to 100 strips can be daisy-chained together.
