In This Issue LED Plant Characteristics Plants, Light, and LEDs Part 1 Featured Distributor Clean Air Gardening Dallas, Texas 1-214-819-9500 www.cleanairgardening.com Featured Product: Early Bloomer Greenhouse A perfect starter greenhouse. Simply let us know that you are a reader of the LED Gardener to receive 10% off of your purchase of this featured product. 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 |
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The LEDs target colors of light that plants rely on for growth and health. Using this technology in place of traditional lighting will reduce water and energy use up to 90% and this number does not include the energy savings obtained by reducing your cooling costs in the summer months. Saving energy while increasing greenhouse yield as much as 40%. Include these factors with the long lifetime of the LGM5™ and it equates to saving some of your hard earned money. Each LGM5™ bar draws less than 9 watts of power. And will light any greenhouse for as little as 10 watts per M². When used over planting beds the LGM5™ is mounted side-by-side or end-to-end using the SunMount™ or LEDstick™.. The LGM5™ bars have a DC plug on each end allowing up to 4 bars to be run in series. When operated on 240vac, the cost of operation drops about 40% over the same setup running on 120vac. The LGM brand is designed for solar and wind powered systems but can plug right in to any standard outlet without the need for a ballast. A typical HID lamp uses the majority of its energy creating heat that must then be ventilated from the growing area. Temperatures at the bulb's surface are around 1500 degrees F.. Because of this heat- traditional grow lighting requires a large amount of space between the plants and the light source as well as precautions to avoid shock/fire/and burn risks that are associated with high voltage devices. LGM light bars operate at less than 15 degrees above ambient temperatures. LGM5™ are designed to operate in greenhouse environments with very little fire or shock risks. This intelligent design opens up new methods to improve yield in a given area. For example, with the bulb-heat issue solved, greenhouses and indoor gardeners have the option of multi-tiered planting beds. Both planting beds and lighting can be built into movable frames with simple hanging systems. Three or more vertical layers will exist where once there was only one. This would effectively triple biomass production in a given area and is only one of the doors opened by LGM5™. --AL
Light provides the energy plants use to live and grow. They have a unique ability to catch light and store its energy in chemicals like sugar and starch, which are then used to power the plant's cells. The light energy stored in plants not only allows the plants to grow , but also supplies the energy needed by every other living organism on earth, either directly (if you eat plants) or indirectly (if you eat something that ate plants). If it wasn't for plants we wouldn't be here. But how do plants catch light? To catch light plants use special chemicals called pigments, which are nothing more than substances that catch light. Pigments are all around us, and are the reason that every object has a particular color. And there are pigments in our eyes that allow us to see these colors, too. Everyone is familiar with the idea of adding pigments to paint to create different paint colors. So how does something that captures light make your paint look blue? When you add a blue pigment to paint, you're really adding a chemical that catches all the other colors of light except blue. So the blue light bounces off of the paint, making it look blue to us. Plant pigments do the same thing. The best known plant pigment is chlorophyll, the pigment used in photosynthesis, the process that catches light energy and stores it in sugar and starch. Chlorophyll is the pigment that makes plants look green. Why? Because chlorophyll is very good at catching red and blue light, but terrible at catching green light. The green light bounces off the plant's leaves, making them look green to us. There are other pigments in plants that catch light and use it to regulate plant growth. While the plant's chlorophyll is busy catching as much energy as possible from the light, the other pigments are figuring out things like whether the plant should grow short and compact or tall and spindly, or whether it's time to make flowers. Just like the pigments in our eyes give us a picture of the world, plant pigments tell them about their environment and allow them to adapt to it. --CEO SolarOasis ***************************************************************** |
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