Flower initiator Far Red Light

[Abja Roots]

Just wondering if anyone had ever used one of these and what they thought of the concept.

http://growlightsource.com/products/the-flower-initiator-bud-booster-grow-lights/

 

[Ninja Mechanics]

Never used one myself or anything like it, although, Ive experimented and contemplated several similar systems for indoor growing. Never crossed my mind to use it outdoors, not in the same manor supplemental lighting is used in greenhouses.

I started using low wattage warm spectrum bulbs(florescent) at the beginning and end of the daily flowering light cycle a few years ago. I would have them set to turn on about 5 mins before the HID's turned on and 5 minutes before the last HID turned off. Mainly trying to mimic the sunset/sunrise spectrum that lights up an area before the sun actually rises and after the sun fully sets. My experience and observations over the years have showed me how plants think and act when lighting is concerned. The way plants start to droop before the lights turn off says a lot about their internal clocks, but there are other senses that seem to be more related to spectrum(not the spectrum we see but the spectrum plants see). Haven't formed a solid enough opinion yet to share what I think on that but clearly its worth talking about.

Back on track... I live in Montana and we don't get much light here in the spring or in the fall. Depending on where you are located, north facing, south facing, etc, growing here sucks! Id really like to consider using something like that to increase my productivity for outdoors. It would be cool to see how a certain crop would react with having zero supplemental and how a crop with supplemental would perform.

It seems to me, lighting is even deeper entwined with the plants than we normally would consider. Intensity plays the biggest roll of all I think. A plant wants nothing more but to rest after an intense day of sunlight, when the time comes and the intensity dwindles, as the spectrums are altered throughout the day, most plants appear to crash hard, almost like each and every cell in the plants starts saying "okay guys, time for bed" then everyone lays down for sleep... but the plant does not rest fully, they continue to grow and evolve even into the night...

Just thoughts here, nothing definitive, just trying to poke around the idea.