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Silvia Booij and Leonie Geerdinck, researchers at Signify Research in the Netherlands, have been testing LED light recipes in basil…
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Silvia Booij and Leonie Geerdinck, researchers at Signify Research in the Netherlands, have been testing LED light recipes in basil cultivation and they have reached an outcome matching similar experiments…
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White light only increases energy costs for growers
0Silvia Booij and Leonie Geerdinck, researchers at Signify Research in the Netherlands, have been testing LED light recipes in basil cultivation and they have reached an outcome matching similar experiments with other crops. As with previous light measuring studies conducted at Wageningen, using lettuce, tomato and spinach plants, white light does not add any value to Basil plants themselves. Indeed compared to red and blue light, white LEDs only increase energy consumption costs. This may come as no major surprise, in my own use of LED grow lights I found long ago that red and blue LED grow lights made…