How does the spectrum of the LED plant light of Yaorong Technology affect the growing cannabis plant?
Yaorong Technology LED Cannabis Planting Light
What is spectrum?
Although natural light may appear white to us, it is actually composed of many different colors. When passing light through a prism, or when we see a rainbow, we can see the "true face" of the sun. When the light is refracted to its various parts, we can see all the colors that make up the light.
We can understand that plants actually make "decisions" on how to grow based on the spectrum they receive. Different spectra can change the way marijuana germinates, grows and even blooms. Although there are not many options to change the spectrum of sunlight when growing outdoors, because many users now use led plant growth lights, we can almost completely control the spectrum when growing cannabis indoors!
What is the "best" spectrum for growing hemp?
This is an important issue, because each spectrum has its own unique influence, and some spectrums are more useful for cannabis growth than others. There is no "best" spectrum for cannabis growth, but users can help themselves Choose the best spectrum for your goal and growth space!
Why can hemp plants respond to the spectrum?
When growing outdoors in the sun, the received spectrum actually provides the cannabis plant with a lot of information about what is happening in the world around it. In spring and summer, more blue spectrum reaches the surface.
In summer, the plant responds to this bright direct light (with a lot of blue light components), suggesting that it has many large leaves and short stems that grow non-nutriently. The plant tries to spread as much as it can and increase the quality of its leaves.
Blue light-LED plant growth lamps with a relatively high proportion of blue light are often used in the plant growth stage, because they tend to make cannabis plants short and strong, and have large healthy leaves.
With the advent of autumn, the sun began to drop in the sky. More light reaching the plant falls in the red spectrum. More light in the red part of the spectrum indicates that the plant is about to end summer and it is time to adapt before winter. When the cannabis plant is exposed to a higher proportion of red light, it will respond by growing longer stems and leaving more space between the leaves, and grow as high as possible to the best condition To start sprouting and pollinate by wind!
Yellow/red light-grow lights with a lot of red are often used during the flowering period to encourage plants to grow taller (stretch) and help promote budding. Under red light, plants may enter the flowering period faster than under blue light.
By tracking the ratio of colors in the spectrum, cannabis plants can "understand" what is happening around them, thereby helping the plant grow in the best way!
If you want to make plants grow smaller and more leafy, it is recommended to use plant growth lights with more blue spectrum components. Switch the plant to the flowering period, you can switch the light to the part of the cannabis that likes more red and orange during the flowering period.
How much does spectrum affect plant growth?
The marijuana plant needs bright light, at least some red and blue, for it to grow normally. Although essential for healthy plant growth, it is considered a good form of choosing light of the appropriate spectrum to encourage your desire to grow during the nutrient and flowering period of the cannabis plant.
However, remember that different strains will be affected by different spectra. Some plants are barely affected, while others may respond more strongly. It is important to remember that the changes caused by the spectrum are relatively small (stems tend to grow longer), and many other factors will drive some of the same changes.
On the other hand, if it is to provide a lot of yellow light to the plant, it tends to last very short, because it gets so much light that it has enough blue and does not need to be high. Since almost all led plant growth lights emit a spectrum suitable for healthy cannabis growth, in many aspects, the amount of light has a much greater impact on plants than the spectrum.
The best way to increase yield is to make your plants more "simple"
In other words, giving plants more light than simply changing the spectrum can bring you a greater return on productivity. Therefore, if it is possible for your plants to get more light (the highest), even if you add light in the "wrong" spectrum, this will increase the yield of your crop. Even bright white fluorescent lamps immersed in the green spectrum can promote plant growth, if you don’t care about energy consumption.
Delve into how the spectrum changes the way the cannabis plant grows
Light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, including not only the visible spectrum, but also X-rays, gamma rays and infrared light. Plants react to the spectrum through a completely separate process from photosynthesis (called photomorphogenesis).
In this part, we only discuss how plants use the hidden information contained in the light spectrum to grow better! Although a plant cannot physically stand up and move to a new location, it is still constantly growing and changing its growth pattern to maximize the amount of light it receives. When the sun moves in the sky, the plant will rotate its leaves to face the sun, and then put all its leaves down at night to save energy and protect itself. Like all plants, cannabis plants have methods for measuring different spectra, and each method can provide the plant with information about the best way to grow.
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Plant the "smell" spectrum!
Like us, plants use the signals from their senses to help find the energy they need for growth. We have noses to smell those delicacies and help us find food. However, although we use our nose to capture the hidden information in the smell, in the end the nose can only send us signals about possible food sources. We can't actually eat food with our noses-we need our mouths to get food in our stomachs.
Plants have a certain light sensor (photoreceptor) in the whole plant body. Its function is similar to the "nose" of a plant to detect information about the spectrum. Just like how humans use the sense of smell to help find good food, plants use spectral information to help plants grow in a way that gets the maximum amount of light.
However, similar to the way we can't actually eat food with our nose, plants can't use their photoreceptors to get energy from light.
