Supplemental Lighting: Keeping Your Garden Lit All Year Round
by Alice Liu on Oct 27, 2022
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Winter is coming and with the long nights drawing in the most challenging times for outdoor growers have already begun. But there is help at hand!
With seasonal and daily changes to natural light, you can thumb your nose at mother nature and still get outstanding results.
The Advantages of Supplemental Lighting
Meeting Your Plants' DLI Needs
Over the years, researchers and scientists have devoted whole careers to examining the relationship between light and plant growth. They came up with the daily light integral (or DLI) to establish how much light different plants need. This is calculated as the sum of the photosynthetically active radiation (PAR or PPFD) received by plants over the course of a 24-hour day.
Why am I telling you this? Well, DLI is measured in moles of photons (mols) per square meter per day. Generally, the more photons – or the higher DLI – plants receive, the better the overall quality and production rates of plants.
Plants need a higher DLI during the vegetative and blooming stages, so being able to guarantee a high PAR / PPFD with the use ofoutdoor grow lights is essential for getting the best results when dark nights or cloudy days are threatening to thwart yourplans.
Enhanced Spectrum Control
The benefits of providing a full spectrum of light to plants are well understood and accepted. Plants have developed under the full spectrum of our star, the Sun -so its not surprising that to get the best results a full spectrum is required, such as UV for developing flavour and terpene content and controlling pests, and Far Red and IR for faster, more vigorous growth and flowering.
With lighting thatdeliverthe right light intensityandwavelengths at the power needed for the DLI of your plants,the result will always be larger, healthier plants and higher yields when used as a supplement for those times when mother nature has otherplans.
Year-Round Production
Even in the dead of winter, ahigh-quality LED grow light can create the ideal growing conditions needed to grow more plants, faster and healthier - helping squeeze moregrow cycles into a year. And whether you're producing commercial quantities or more of an enthusiast that is potentially more money in your pocket as well as more money saved either way.
The Best LED Grow Light for Supplemental Lighting
As supplemental grow lights are all-weather affairs, the best lights need to offer protection from the elements as well as satisfying the power and energy demands of your plant DLI. This is where our SproutBoxx YD-XK LED quantum trays come in.
Needless to say, the YD-XKs also have an IP67rating that means they'll handle anything mother nature throws at them, come rain, sleet or snow and can be depended on for the long-haul with our standard 5 year warranty.
So if you're looking for the best supplemental lighting you can get your hands on, well - you just found it!
