hahahaha!the absolute answer!do not burn
Keeps the plants " alert " for their survival...
Productive....
Specially with light -the language of plants- things are pretty complicated...
Supplying what seems- for human logic -efficient light for photosynthesis ,may drive the plants lazy,eventually.
If not cause other problems,also..
But ,maybe ,just "making it hard " a bit,plants get " alerted"...
Metabolism speeds up and many mechanisms are utilised for species survival...
I trust that there is a light combo that will "force " the plant to :
-increase resources need (nutrient /water assimilation )...
-increase leaf effective area and leaf effective "overall design " (lamina,petiole ) but overall canopy design..
Increased Leaf effective area means i ) more effective light harvest ii) bigger nutrient/energy storage.
-increase flowering ,as a combination of above and a stimulus ,an external "pressure " caused by the light itshelf ..
A light 'message' meaning " threat " ,to the right reaction center of plant ( survival reaction center ,that triggers " Massive flowering" .)
In order to understand why R/B are the dominant diodes, one needs to look back. R/B WERE more efficient and therefor easier to make passable for a wide variety of uses. It is only in the last 2 years that the efficiency of whites have become competitive to where ONE white does the job of RGB with comparable lumen output. But if you grew up believing the 'earth was flat' then it could take a lot of deprogramming to rebootOkay, did not mean to offend! I'm going to make a panel based on what i think is ideal and then ill see how it goes! i'll also follow your grow here Stardust, good luck to you!
That isn't exactly true. Reds have never been more efficient than whites. Blues have and generally speaking still are because White diodes are simply blues with a phosphorus coating to change the hue. Therefore blue LEDs will always (until they change the process of making a white chip completely) be <= whites.R/B WERE more efficient and therefor easier to make passable for a wide variety of uses. It is only in the last 2 years that the efficiency of whites have become competitive to where ONE white does the job of RGB with comparable lumen output.
Uv is for increasing resin production ,yes...this spectrum (420-435) is not ideal,but its not that bad either...a better nm range for UV would be 390-410nm...but im close enough...hmmm isnt that a nm range wich is not really uv light? Rather useless??? am i right that u want to use uv for increased resin production? Maxbe go for a reptile light or aquaritcs lights sry hope u understand me...
26° C & 56% RhSailor what are your temperatures and humidity levels ?
Leaf tip curl downLeaf tip curlin' (canoeing ),maybe was caused by transplantin' stress...