MONTRÉAL, QUÉBEC, CANADA - For greenhouse products, lighting is essential to keeping crops growing and healthy. With the addition of dynamic LED lighting, however, growers can take advantage of the programmable lighting to tailor it for specific plants. With access to hundreds of lighting programs, Sollum Technologies offers fully dynamic LED fixtures and SUN as a service® (SUNaas) platforms to make it possible for growers to have multiple lighting zones throughout the greenhouse.
“The future of greenhouse growing as an industry is changing rapidly due to market opportunities such as consumer demand for specific produce varieties, demand for local products, climate change, and the impact of technologies such as dynamic LED lighting,” the company commented in a release. “Greenhouse growers now have the opportunity to create perfect lighting environments for crops all year long, change crops at any time, and adapt to plant and greenhouse conditions. Real-world applications show that truly dynamic lighting that offers real-time control of spectrum and intensity, unlike other lighting systems, increases yield, quality, and taste and saves energy.”
This high-level control of greenhouse lighting helps growers to increase yields, improve crop quality, and reduce energy costs. As noted in the report, different crops have different lighting requirements as it relates to photoperiod, spectrum, and light intensity, which can make it difficult to change crops and still get the most out of the greenhouse. Crop changes are a reality of the greenhouse industry due to market influences and pest/disease cycles.
A dynamic LED grow light solution allows growers to fine-tune their lighting strategy for each cultivar, providing the exact amount of light each plant needs to grow without wasting energy on plants that don’t need it. Correct lighting for each crop reduces energy costs and improves the overall health of crops.
“Each plant species and cultivar has unique morphological and physiological characteristics that influence their response to light. These characteristics include the type and number of photoreceptors, the size and shape of leaves, and the efficiency of photosynthetic pathways,” noted the report. “To produce optimal yields and quality standards per cultivar, different lighting parameters are required per cultivar as it relates to spectrum, intensity, and photoperiod.”
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