For some of us our garden is more than just a source of food. For many it is also the place where we bring visitors and customers so they can be filled with the awe of our green thumb. It is times like these that LED gardeners are prone to be aware of the “graying” of plants under LED’s. The reason for this is the plant specific spectrum used in the LED Grow Master bars.
Plant leaves reflect light colors that are not used efficiently for growing. Under white light, most plants look some shade of green. This is because traditional plant lights are based on room lighting that uses the colors that the human eye is most sensitive to – green and yellow. But since the LED Grow Master line of lighting supplies colors that plants can use, very little light is reflected from the leaves. The plant absorbs nearly all of the light with the exception of a very small amount of green light included in each bar to dilate your pupil. The result is a plant that looks like it’s in a darkroom. This is also a sign that you are not spending money to create light that your plants are not using.
In conclusion, our lighting is for plants and not people. So when the day comes to show off all of your hard work, you may want to keep this in mind. Just supplement a little sunshine. If that is not an option- full spectrum lighting will give excellent color rendering and is an efficient alternative to incandescent bulbs. Garden on.
Calling all photons... 