What Color Lights Do Plants Need?

What color lights do plants need. My light has red green blue and white I can choose the percentages of the lights what should that be.

 

What color lights do plants need. My light has red green blue and white I can choose the percentages of the lights what should that be.

Hello Dill...

Any light in the 5500 to 6500K range should be suitable for the simpler, easy to grow plants.

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A few reds and a lot of whites are ideal for planted tanks. Some greens and blues sprinkled in also help.

 

Whatever the plants like...you'll not like. It is the red and blue out of the entire white spectrum...kind of purple for your eye...

 

Yeah, red and blue mostly, but all wavelengths are used to some degree.

 

I read that red and green white at 100% and blue at 15% is 8000k so that what I have it set as

 

Huh, I always thought blues were more focused for coral in marine setups, but that's probably at a higher concentration? TIL!