How to Benchmark Horticultural Lighting Performance Mid-Season: A Practical Guide for CEA Growers
Many CEA growers carefully plan their horticulture lighting strategy before the lighting season begins, only to spend the remainder of the crop cycle focused on plant performance, labor, irrigation, and environmental control. Yet one of the most valuable opportunities to improve production and profitability often occurs mid-season: benchmarking horticultural lighting performance.
Why Plants See Light Differently Than Humans
Plants see light different than humans, and misunderstanding that difference can lead to inaccurate conclusions.
Measuring Transmissibility: Understanding How Much Light Reaches Your Crop
Measuring transmissibility is critical for accurately determining your supplemental lighting requirements.
Measuring Light Levels and Spectral Output: What you Should Know
Measuring light levels is one of the most valuable tools for ensuring your supplemental lighting system is performing at its best.
Are you lighting for optimum yields?
How do you achieve the highest yields with your lighting system? As we know, increasing light intensity up to a certain species-specific point results in a corresponding increase in yield. When light levels are not optimized for production or the type of crop you are growing, you have slower flowering, poor root development and plant […]
Fact or Fiction? Horticultural Lighting Questions Answered
There are numerous claims out there on LED and HID lighting. As manufacturers of both, P.L Light Systems always tries to show the full picture
Light Uniformity – Comparing LED and HPS Luminaires
Light uniformity is an important factor when it comes to growing a consistent crop and optimizing your growing environment, however, there has been some misinformation about the way HID and LED luminaires distribute light and affect plant health. As a manufacturer of both HID and LED technology, P.L. Light Systems always strives to show the […]
Full Spectrum Versus Red/Blue Spectrum LEDs
What is the difference between full spectrum and red/blue LEDs? How do they affect your growing environment and which should you use.
How LED and HPS Lighting affects air and leaf temperature
How a lighting system can affect the air and leaf temperature in your growing facility
How to Manage Photoperiod for Better Crop Production
Understanding how to use photoperiod to promote flowering and/or vegetative growth in plants