understanding light

[Hrusai]

one technology i would watch out for that will be very handy for any form of indoor growing, would be OLED's we've heard of the telly's and such like but their potential is much much greater (i did a whole bunch of research on them with the intent to getting a deal working with a manufacturer) They are very low energy, flexible, made from nothing but organic components, no poisonous heavy metals or anything, have a good level of light output etc.

but here's where i think they'll be useful pertaining to growing, if you have an oled panel with multiple colour pixels (or layers or something, there's alot of ways to achieve a multitude of colours) you could change the colour of the emitted light, as well as tailoring the level of emission, giving you a low power, versatile light source that you can use to replicate the natural cycles of light in either a normal timescale, or compressed into a shorter time (which is the whole point of indoor growing right?)


another random snippet we should all remember is that red light is the best for remaining undetected, if you need a light whilst travelling at night, having a red filter on it will make it alot harder to see, whereas white light sticks out like a sore thumb, and the red filter can be used for lamping as well!

[Luci_ferson]

a lot of people use the new oled light strips for fish tanks.

some of them are so effective they even work for corals.
corals usually only grow well under metal halides.

the new led lighting has many advantages but come shtf I expect no electricity.

Colour changes to light would really need to be done through filters.

unless your planning on getting a huge battery system and a solar panel.

electric light for plants in their flowering/fruiting stage is usually 400w per sq metre.
not easy to achieve with batterys leaving it not much of a possibility.

really only light extending is viable tool.

an extra 4 hours or so through a battery system with low wattage flurescents and colour filters would be enough for extending a plants vegetative state, and shouldn't be too hard to achieve.

allowing much earlier sowing of some crops .