In This Issue LEDs Down Under Plants, Light, and LEDs Part 4 Featured Distributor Light Earth Design Pty LTD Melbourne, Australia www.lightearthdesign.com Featured Product: The LGM3 Appropriate for all stages of plant growth. The LGM3 led grow lights output is enhanced with extra blues and deeper reds. Encourages robust, compact growth and actively promotes blooming. Receive 10% off of your purchase of the LGM3 model in the month of July by simply mentioning that you are a reader of the LED Gardener. Order now. 1-866-414-7244 Care to Comment? The LED Gardener appreciates all the input we receive from our readers. If you would like to submit an article or pictures; or if you would like to comment on a current article please send submissions and comments or questions to angela@led-grow-master.com You are receiving this email because you subscribed at led-grow-master.com If you do not wish to receive this newsletter :Request your name removed angela@led-grow-master.com Contact LED Grow Master Global: Admin@led-grow-master.com |
| LED Gardener |
Energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, and water conservation are all issues that have become priorities worldwide. Few continents are feeling the pressure on the same level as Australians. Statistics claim that energy consumption per capita has surpassed three times the world average. Only six percent of the land is fit for cultivation and much of this will be lost to dryland salinity as the water shortages continue. As they say in Australia... "Things are crook in Muswellbrooke." We are always pleased to have an opportunity to work with a company that is devoted to making a difference in their community. Light Earth Design Pty LTD, is just such a company with plans to introduce the latest in efficient agriculture- led grow lights. Light Earth Design is a family owned company based in Melbourne and answering the demand for an Australian distributor of LED Grow Master lighting. What can one company do in the face of these challenges? The same thing LED Grow Master is working towards here in the USA. LED grow lights can reduce energy consumption, conserve water, and increase food production in a way that does not increase the degradation of limited arable land. If you would like to be part of a solution- contact Light Earth Design Pty LTD at admin@lightearthdesign.com to find out how.--AL Plants, Light, and LEDs Part 4
question, and one for which nobody has a complete answer. We can identify the pigments contained in plant tissues, and we can figure out the absorption curve for each of those pigments. After that though, things start to get a little vague, and there are many opinions about what colors of light plants require, but not many definitive answers. The primary pigment-driven process in plants and the one that's been studied the most and is best understood, is photosynthesis. There are several types of chlorophyll in plants, and they all have absorption peeks in the red and blue portions of the light spectrum. Because of this, many early studies of how different light affects plant growth focused on the use of red and blue light. Many people point to early NASA studies involving the use of red and blue light for plant growing as proof that those are the only light colors needed to grow beautiful, healthy plants. Unfortunately the NASA studies didn't really use only red and blue light sources. They used red LEDs, which were readily available at the time, plus a small amount of fluorescent lighting to provide the blue component. Why? Because blue LEDs hadn't yet been invented. The true result of the early NASA experiments was that using red LEDs along with fluorescent lighting, which contains many colors of light, provided reasonable plant growth, but not that plants will grow well using only red and blue light. In our own experience we have found that while plants will indeed grow using nothing more than red and blue light sources, they don't turn out the same as plants grown in full sun. Their coloring may be different, or their flowers may not have any perfume. In fact, they may not bloom at all. Vegetables and herbs may have either a strange taste or not have any flavor at all. The fact is that plants contain a broad array of pigments, and not all plants contain the same pigments, yet they are all there for a purpose. In many cases we don't yet understand what the purpose of one or more pigments is, but they all have some purpose. A man-made light generator that provides all of the colors readily absorbed by the pigments will likely perform better than grow lights containing very few light colors .--CEO SolarOasis Copyright 2008 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED LED Grow Master Global, LLC |
 |
| |
 |
| July 1, 2008 Volume 3, Issue 7 |
