Types of Lighting

Why must the sun work the way it does? Why can’t it always be positioned in a way so all our plants get the perfect amount of light? Here’s the thing, you can spend all your time looking at the intricacies of lights for your plants and strategically move them to get the best light possible, or you can just shove them all in the window and hope for the best. My truth is that once summer hits, all my plants get put on my front porch for MAXIUM SUN EXPOSURE and they’re all doing pretty good. But if you find that does not work for you, here’s some basic lighting info.

For reference, south facing windows will give you the strongest source of sunlight. Sucks to be you if you don’t have a south facing window. Just kidding, your next best option would be a west facing window. Just look around your home and find the window that seems to get the sun light for the longest period and go with that one.

Direct Light This is basically the equivalent to placing a plant right outside. You can also get this light by placing a plant right at a south facing window for the strongest amount of sunlight. Pay attention, I said this already.

Bright Light What’s the difference between direct and bright light? Not much. Possibly just a windowpane or a west facing window.

Medium Light This kind of light is cast from an east facing window or is just light that isn’t very strong but still, like, present. I don’t know, it’s called medium light you figure it out.

Low Light This would be a shady spot in your room. Some plants actually really don’t like light, which seems to go against the main three principles of plants needing sunlight, water, and love. But when you have a lot of love to give, who needs sunlight.

Artificial Lighting When that seasonal depression hits in the winter, you know its time to break out the grow lights. These come in several different forms, whether it’s a grow lamp or a sun lamp, they’ll get the job done. They are also very useful for people with limited window availability.

I hope you like the symbols for each type of light because they’ll be coming back in the second half of this book. If you don’t like them you can tell me, I swear I won’t get upset. . . . Well, maybe a little.