Hello, great collective mind of CPF!
It's that time of year again, when the green things start coming out of the ground - and I start growing my hot peppers! Living in the Alaskan Rainforest, I've always had to supplement the natural light my plants get...this year I thought I'd break with the traditional fluorescent lamps and go with a home-made LED contraption.
From what I know, plants tend to absorb light best in the 430nm-ish and 660nm-ish wavelength, which roughly corresponds to red and a dark, royal blue. What I want to build is a great big LED grow-light - I'm talking 20-30 emitters - but I don't know where to start looking to find emitters in those wavelengths. In my somewhat-simple head, this should be like dumping a supercharger on my plant growth, and of course there'll be a long-term experiment built to see if I'm right...
The Sandwich Shoppe doesn't seem to carry Lux3 or Cree emitters in those colours, and that's kind of where my brain stops for reputable LED resellers. Can anyone help me out?
Cheers!
It's that time of year again, when the green things start coming out of the ground - and I start growing my hot peppers! Living in the Alaskan Rainforest, I've always had to supplement the natural light my plants get...this year I thought I'd break with the traditional fluorescent lamps and go with a home-made LED contraption.
From what I know, plants tend to absorb light best in the 430nm-ish and 660nm-ish wavelength, which roughly corresponds to red and a dark, royal blue. What I want to build is a great big LED grow-light - I'm talking 20-30 emitters - but I don't know where to start looking to find emitters in those wavelengths. In my somewhat-simple head, this should be like dumping a supercharger on my plant growth, and of course there'll be a long-term experiment built to see if I'm right...
The Sandwich Shoppe doesn't seem to carry Lux3 or Cree emitters in those colours, and that's kind of where my brain stops for reputable LED resellers. Can anyone help me out?
Cheers!
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