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Crop Steering with Light: How to Tune Spectrum and PPFD for Flowering Dominance
When the flip to 12/12 happens, the clock starts ticking on your flower room’s performance. This is the point where lighting shifts from being a broad growth driver to a precision steering tool, one that can dictate how aggressively plants develop flowers, stack calyxes, and express cannabinoids and terpenes. For a commercial cannabis cultivator, flowering dominance is the result of intentional manipulation of light spectrum, intensity, duration, and uniformity—all in sync with the plant’s physiological cues. You’ve scaled your cultivation business …
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How Light Affects Cannabinoid Production
Light is the primary energy source for plants. Not only is it necessary for photosynthesis, but certain wavelengths impact the accumulation of secondary metabolites, including cannabinoids, terpenes and flavonoids. This blog post unpacks the impact of the light spectrum on cannabis and how different wavelengths influence yield, cannabinoid production and plant morphology. Light spectrum and intensity The light spectrum is determined by wavelengths. For instance, ultraviolet light encompasses a part of the spectrum whose wavelength is 10–400 nanometers (nm). The sun emits light with …
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