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12/1 lighting--Any truth or banana in the tail pipe?

little-soldier

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best way to save money would be study and gather some data on how much of direct and indirect sunlight the plant really needs in a day outdoors and apply it to indoor lighting instead of going the lazy 12/1 route. Would be cool to walk in a grow room and have the lights slowly dimming every now and then. lights would probably last longer that way too so it would be a positive double whammy!
maybe i should patent my idea :p
 

Weezard

Hawaiian Inebriatti
Veteran
Very cool indeed. Also toying with the fact that photon absorption. happens in microseconds, it is not continuous
There is a recovery time when supplied photons can not be used.
So dappled light works well.
And the very frugal, (read cheap), might want to save energy by supplying light in very short pulses, yah?
Have fun with that.
 

CocoNut 420

Well-known member
Has anyone seen the bbc documentary "The private life of plants"?

There's macro footage somewhere of plant cells (iirc chromatophors?) when light shines on the leaf they jostled around each trying for the prime spots.
 
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little-soldier

Active member
Very cool indeed. Also toying with the fact that photon absorption. happens in microseconds, it is not continuous
There is a recovery time when supplied photons can not be used.
So dappled light works well.
And the very frugal, (read cheap), might want to save energy by supplying light in very short pulses, yah?
Have fun with that.
exactly what i thought. we need more studies on this.where did you learn about the recovery time?
 

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