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Hi guys, been trying to think few things, but more just wondering.
The hydroled that got banned because advertising had interesting ideas to hit both peaks of chlorophyll a and b in red and blue, so there's 4 bands. Not to mention those 60 degree lenses helping penetration. I quess both of these things are already mentioned in this thread.
Chorophylls are helped out with supplementary proteins that catch the light between their peak absortion of red and blue, throw in ir and uv in certain bands for ensuring efficiency and small stress to produce more resin. So there's another 3 bands the third being somekind of white.
So, total of 7 at this point and billyjimbob has had interesting experiments with amber (590 nm), maybe amber hit some suppelementing protein peak? Phycobilisomes was it they (smartish people)called those(Edit : well only algae and cyanobacteria have these, stupid). I really don't know about plant biology and such, but this topic is making me keen to visit local university's agriculture and biology department with stupid questions about photosystems in plants.
I know my wonderings are somewhat badly and fuzzily written, and I'll try to explain more detailed if there's any interest. Just hoping that some of the gurus might chime in again.
What the ideal ratio? are we nearing it? . How much more is to it than amber+blue+red+white and tiny bits of uv and ir with something like 1:1:1:6 of a+b+w+r ratio and proper amount of photons. Better suggestions?
Hi guys, been trying to think few things, but more just wondering.
The hydroled that got banned because advertising had interesting ideas to hit both peaks of chlorophyll a and b in red and blue, so there's 4 bands. Not to mention those 60 degree lenses helping penetration. I quess both of these things are already mentioned in this thread.
Chorophylls are helped out with supplementary proteins that catch the light between their peak absortion of red and blue, throw in ir and uv in certain bands for ensuring efficiency and small stress to produce more resin. So there's another 3 bands the third being somekind of white.
So, total of 7 at this point and billyjimbob has had interesting experiments with amber (590 nm), maybe amber hit some suppelementing protein peak? Phycobilisomes was it they (smartish people)called those(Edit : well only algae and cyanobacteria have these, stupid). I really don't know about plant biology and such, but this topic is making me keen to visit local university's agriculture and biology department with stupid questions about photosystems in plants.
I know my wonderings are somewhat badly and fuzzily written, and I'll try to explain more detailed if there's any interest. Just hoping that some of the gurus might chime in again.
What the ideal ratio? are we nearing it? . How much more is to it than amber+blue+red+white and tiny bits of uv and ir with something like 1:1:1:6 of a+b+w+r ratio and proper amount of photons. Better suggestions?
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. And you're right about trial and error, but there seems to be some hope of advancing.
