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Three words: About. F*king. Time. Anybody in horticulture or botany knows what a BFD this is. Anybody else... it's major. Those of you wondering about the g
by ninefathom 4y ago
Three words:
About.
F*king.
Time.
Anybody in horticulture or botany knows what a BFD this is. Anybody else... it's major.
Those of you wondering about the green spectrum, try running a commercial greenhouse with fuchsia-tinted lighting. You'll have a paradise of lush, happy plants that never go anywhere (i.e. they won't sell).
- JohnJamesRambo 4y agoHaha why don’t they sell?
- ninefathom 4y agoBecause humans are visual creatures, and we like our plant leaves green, and our flowers bright. Rephrased, just like in cooking, presentation is very important in commercial agriculture and horticulture, too. People hesitate to buy things that don't look like they expect. Nothing Cree is doing here hasn't been done before in terms of plant growth, but they've made it hella easier to have a horticultural/agricultural LED installation that fits seamlessly into existing business processes with minimal headache.
- Grothendank 4y agoI think that this will impact interior and home decor as well. Here we want light that will render colors well and be healthy for plants and humans alike. But this was often expensive (thinking of Metal Halide lamps) or compromised on human comfort (thinking of Flourescent grow lamps). Cree has made it more affordable and healthy to bring living plants into human spaces as a general rule. Which is very exciting from a design perspective!
- JohnJamesRambo 4y agoOh I see. I thought you meant they wouldn’t sell when moved to natural lighting because the plants were less healthy or looked weird.
- tpmx 4y agoSo what kind of cannabis do you grow? :-)
- h2odragon 4y agocannabis is fine with purple light. My begonias, however, which are supposed to have a bright multicolored foliage as their main feature, come out looking about as impressive as cabbage under purple lights. with a bit of extra "warm white" light they become colorful again. "peak efficiency" is fine but the rest of what the plant is doing counts too and those less efficient processes may have benefits in the final product.
- mrb 4y agoBut does it matter what they look like in the indoor garden under purple lighting? I mean eventually you take them out and admire them in natural lighting. Unless, of course, you have customers visiting your garden...
- h2odragon 4y agoit matters when i take them out to sell to people as decorative houseplants. they'll adjust to the light they're in in a matter of weeks anyway, but they need to look their best when being shopped to new homes.
- mrb 4y agoYou mean the purple color light physically changes the color of the plant? I didn't know that. I tried googling and can't find examples. Can you provide some evidence? It seems hard to believe.
- Zancarius 4y agoI suspect the OP means, or at least the way I parsed it, is that they'll adjust to the changes to their lighting conditions, not that the light materially affects their physical coloration. i.e. when someone buys them, they'll have to adjust to natural (i.e. sun) light, rather than the artificial growth lighting.
- Zak 4y agoCree, Nichia, Osram, and Samsung were already selling horticulture-optimized white LEDs. What seems to be new here is a choice between three options for blue/green ratio.