Using Mylar with Grow Lights

You can use Mylar in your indoor garden to make your lighting system more effective.

You can use Mylar in your indoor garden to make your lighting system more effective. Light is a precious resource; it requires energy to produce light. Why squander a 1,000 watts of power without regard for determining the amount of light really needed? Many gardeners needlessly indulge in a wasteful expenditure of power.

Mylar, a metallic film that comes in long rolls, lets you reuse your light by reflecting it back to your garden. It can be cut and tacked against walls and floors to divert the light to your plants. Using Mylar, 98 percent of the light can be reflected back into your garden. All you need is a sheet of Mylar one millimeter thick to increase the efficiency of your grow lights.

Whether you're using fluorescent or incandescent grow lights, your lighting can be inefficient. Fluorescents last longer, up to 20,000 hours more, and produce almost twice the number of lumens per watt than incandescents, but even color-blending fluorescents rendering the most natural light spectrum possible can be aided by using Mylar.

Mylar can be bought in rolls four feet wide and in different lengths. You can save a substantial amount by buying rolls 25 feet long. A modest garden, however, may only need a ten-foot roll. You want to grow healthy, beautiful crops. Using your resources efficiently and economically is one of the most important lessons to learn in gardening. In hydroponics systems, there are mechanisms for recovering and reusing nutrient solutions. You can use Mylar to reuse light and conserve energy.

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