Hi
While reading in a german growing board i stumbled upon an interesting method to increase yield / reduce overall flowering time.
The theory is that one can use Far-Red light (730nm) to reduce the minimum darkness time the plant needs every day to keep flowering. Far-Red light supposedly increases the transition of Pythochrome-Pfr to Pythochrome-Pr in the plants, which triggers the creation of the hormone that keeps the plant in it's flowering cycle.
It is done by adding a far-red LED (for example: "SpectraBoost PAR-FR15") light to your normal growing light. The LED is kept running around 15mins after you normal light turns off. This is supposed to decrease the needed darkness period from 12 to 10 hours, which can be used in two ways:
My question about this is simple: Has anyone here ever tried this and knows whether this actually works ?
I've done a bit of reading and it seems that the theory behind it is sound, but somehow it all seems to good to be true
While reading in a german growing board i stumbled upon an interesting method to increase yield / reduce overall flowering time.
The theory is that one can use Far-Red light (730nm) to reduce the minimum darkness time the plant needs every day to keep flowering. Far-Red light supposedly increases the transition of Pythochrome-Pfr to Pythochrome-Pr in the plants, which triggers the creation of the hormone that keeps the plant in it's flowering cycle.
It is done by adding a far-red LED (for example: "SpectraBoost PAR-FR15") light to your normal growing light. The LED is kept running around 15mins after you normal light turns off. This is supposed to decrease the needed darkness period from 12 to 10 hours, which can be used in two ways:
- Increasing yield:
By running a 14/10 light cycle instead of 12/12 one increases the amount of photosynthesis done by the plant and therefore increases yield. - Decreasing overall growing time
By using a special timer and an 12/10 cycle one can decrease day length for the plant and therefor decrease the time the plants need to mature.
My question about this is simple: Has anyone here ever tried this and knows whether this actually works ?
I've done a bit of reading and it seems that the theory behind it is sound, but somehow it all seems to good to be true