More Fuukiran: Survivors of the Frost

[rangiku]

Tracy, thanks for the details in your growing. I can guarantee not a single one of us was bored.

[LinhT]

Originally Posted by Red Orchid

Thanks so much Tracy I am going to start planning for the winter rest now. Laundry room, window cracked, copy your lighting system.....triple thanks if I can get one to bloom anywhere near to your collection I will consider it a success.

You have some good size plants, Ginger, so I bet they will bloom nicely next season. I'm looking forward to seeing them next Summer.

[Red Orchid]

Originally Posted by LinhT

You have some good size plants, Ginger, so I bet they will bloom nicely next season. I'm looking forward to seeing them next Summer.

Oh wow thanks so much Tracy

[DelawareJim]

Interesting about the LEDs Tracy. This past spring, I replaced all my aquarium lights with LEDs and I'm working on specs to replace all my grow lights. I'm providing more light and my electric bill has gone down!

I'm working with the owner of Build my LED on selecting the right fixture lengths and lens spread for best coverage right now. It's great, I tell him what the planned use is, footprint of the shelves, distance from plants to lights and he emails a recommendation with the spread pattern and spectral analysis. Based on his recommendation and my own research his 25% green enhanced light is the way to go. NASA has done some fascinating research on this for plants in long-term space exploration.
Green-Enhanced Growth Spectrum - Build My LED, LLC

Cheers.
Jim

[Jayfar]

My lighting is kind of a mishmash right now. My table where the Neos live (and are pushing the other Vandas out) has a 200W 6500K CFL fixture hanging about 2' above it which is on about 14 hours most days. This is supplemented by one of the 13W LEDs from First Rays about 10" above the tops of the Neos, but only for about 8 hours daily. That light is in an Ikea Tertial fixture without the shade installed and for the other half of the day I have it swiveled around to provide supplemental lighting to an adjacent table of Phals. I also use another of the LED bulbs and Tertial fixture to light another table of Phals that previously only had spillover lighting from a large terrarium and, several feet away, off to one side, a southern window.

https://www.firstrays.com/cgi/cart/c...ghting&pid=700

TERTIAL Work lamp - IKEA

I do want to look into the LEDs that Jim just posted about. The customization options are a big plus. I did notice, though, that the linked study on green-enhanced spectrum compares results with cool-white fluorescents, as opposed to the 6500K CFLs that I use.

[LinhT]

Originally Posted by DelawareJim

Interesting about the LEDs Tracy. This past spring, I replaced all my aquarium lights with LEDs and I'm working on specs to replace all my grow lights. I'm providing more light and my electric bill has gone down!

I'm working with the owner of Build my LED on selecting the right fixture lengths and lens spread for best coverage right now. It's great, I tell him what the planned use is, footprint of the shelves, distance from plants to lights and he emails a recommendation with the spread pattern and spectral analysis. Based on his recommendation and my own research his 25% green enhanced light is the way to go. NASA has done some fascinating research on this for plants in long-term space exploration.
Green-Enhanced Growth Spectrum - Build My LED, LLC

Cheers.
Jim

This is quite interesting. I vaguely remember seeing your thread on this a little while back. I think someone was questioning the research on this and mentioned something about the benefits of adding LED's in the far red region.

Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.

[Jayfar]

I've extracted the recent posts about lighting and growing environment from this thread and pasted relevant excerpts into a new thread:

A Neo Lighting and Growing Environment Thread