Any added supplemental lighting will boost the growth of the garden. I like adding 400-watt High-Pressure Sodium in the flowering period while using LEDs in the garden. The results are amazing.I'm curious if UV/FR supplemental lighting is beneficial for growing plants, as I've seen some companies launch UV supplemental lighting products.
Thanks for your information,Any added supplemental lighting will boost the growth of the garden. I like adding 400-watt High-Pressure Sodium in the flowering period while using LEDs in the garden. The results are amazing.
That's another beneficial aspect for plant growth; it's great!UV light will increase density of the trichome coverage, which is beneficial for many reasons.
Also helps against pests and PM.
That's a very detailed personal experience with plant growing. It's very niceIn my experience its very beneficial to add some near UV or violet diodes to any growth stage. Healthier growth in general. It helps hitting the both chlorophylls. This is the main point of adding the samsung EVO diodes with a blue peak at 437nm. Deeper uv means more stress to the plant but also a stronger plant, but maybe best on a separate channel. Far red seems to also have a beneficial effect, especially together with uv as the balance eachother out. One makes cell expansion one makes cells smaller. But unmitigated far red can lead to excessive stretch A broader spectrum grows better always.
Never tried the evo but we add this range thru other diodes. Especially if youre having problems with that bleachy magnesium type "led deficiency" it seems like the added stimulus of the new wave lengths in the blue region makes transpiration better and health better.That's a very detailed personal experience with plant growing. It's very nice
Got me thinking about adding some more blue so I can push harder without the "mag" deficiency. Any recommendations for getting that blue short of investing/building a new light?Never tried the evo but we add this range thru other diodes. Especially if youre having problems with that bleachy magnesium type "led deficiency" it seems like the added stimulus of the new wave lengths in the blue region makes transpiration better and health better.
One experiment i rec for anybody doubting whether it does anything: try to put some plants never touched by uv under some uv and see how theyll react: while it will probably depend on the strain ive seen some absolute crazy praying leaves reach for the light. Its the "virgins" having the phototropy being stimulated properly for the first time. If adding UV only then try to start with a red heavy base spectrum as youre technically adding blues and may unbalance the spectrum somewhat. Research says more blue means less yield though ive not seen any very markedly in practice.
If you already have some uv or similar you may not get much benefits, id try messing eith other factors like nutes. Upping nutes to up to 3 ec (while super carefully checking all run off ec) made a lot of impact in our grow. You can also try with higher ph, mag likes a little higher ec. I know gml played around with switching between standard ph and like 6.5 every other watering.Got me thinking about adding some more blue so I can push harder without the "mag" deficiency. Any recommendations for getting that blue short of investing/building a new light?