LED is being applied on an increasingly large scale in greenhouses, for vegetable as well as floriculture crops. Although many crops have already been proven to grow well under 100% LED lighting, a hybrid solution is sometimes chosen as a first step.

Radation between 400 and 700 nm (nanometer) of the solar spectrum can be used by phototropic organism, like plants to drive photosynthesis. This radation is called photosynthetic active Radiation or PAR.

MARYSVILLE, Ohio, Jan. 04, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG), the world’s leading marketer of branded consumer lawn and garden as well as indoor and hydroponic growing products, today announced it has acquired Luxx Lighting in a transaction that significantly strengt......

In our latest article, How Spectral Light Quality Impacts Plant Growth (July 27, 2021), we discussed the importance of full spectrum LED lights and how advances in LED technology now allow LED grow light manufacturers to optimize the right spectrum for plant rotations (vegetative to flowering) to ma......

What is the best light-emitting diodes (LED) grow light for growers? Before you start your search for the right light fixture, it is important to understand what plants need from the light fixture you choose. You are not lighting the room for humans – you are lighting the room to create photons, or ......

Lux and Lumens are misleading for Horticulture. These metrics for General Lighting are weighted according to human eye's sensitivity to various wavelengths. Human eyes are most sensitive to 555nm green light and not as sensitive to Blue and Red light. Lux/Lumens fail to correctly account for Blue an......