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"The Crop is Ready for the Darkest Period"

LEDs for bell pepper cultivation

IGrow PreOwned 1/17/19 IGrow PreOwned 1/17/19

Jardins Réunis And Cheminant First In France To Grow Cucumbers Year-Round With Full Philips GreenPower LED Lighting Installations

French cucumber growers installed full Philips LED lighting installations using Philips GreenPower LED toplighting and interlighting. Both prefer LED for their greenhouses as the higher light levels guarantee year-round production of high-quality cucumbers

IGrow PreOwned 1/15/19 IGrow PreOwned 1/15/19

Future Farm: Crops Grown With LED Lighting Might Lead To New Markets

The plan is to see if the cost of using electricity to power the new frontier of “indoor agriculture” is feasible compared to traditional agriculture.

IGrow PreOwned 1/12/19 IGrow PreOwned 1/12/19

How Osram Is Investing in Horticulture Technology Partnerships

The deal was a key part of Osram’s mission of moving beyond its role as a lighting company, and becoming a leading provider of intelligent plant growth solutions.

IGrow PreOwned 1/1/19 IGrow PreOwned 1/1/19

Singapore Changi, The World’s Best Airport To Open A Valoya Lit Indoor Garden

The dome will be populated with flora that consists of 2.000 trees and over 100.000 other plants. These will receive sunlight through the glass of the dome which will be supplemented by Valoya’s luminaires, custom made for the Changi Airport.

IGrow PreOwned 12/29/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/29/18

US (MA): Lettuce Grower Decreases Crop Cycle by 30%

Fresh Roots lettuce varieties reach harvest size about 30% faster than their typical light exposure seen in soil farming

IGrow PreOwned 12/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/21/18

Finland: Fully Automatic Vertical Farm Demo Facility Opened

“Growing in vertical farms differs from greenhouse growing a lot. This is why new growing recipes and guidance needs to be offered together with the equipment."

IGrow PreOwned 12/14/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/14/18

What Is The Best LED Light Recipe?

Mickens has published two manuscripts on the effect of light quality on ‘Outredgeous’ red romaine lettuce and “Rubi F1’ red pak choi, a Chinese cabbage.

IGrow PreOwned 12/14/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/14/18

Indoor Ag Sci Cafe Discusses Lighting Strategies for Energy Savings

Funded by NASA and USDA SCRI, Cary has a long research history focusing on energy savings while maximizing crop productivities

IGrow PreOwned 12/13/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/13/18

Agricool Is 'Growing Food In The Cities Where You Live'

Agricool grows fruit in shipping containers in urban areas

IGrow PreOwned 12/13/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/13/18

Valoya Has One Of the Largest Patent Portfolios of the Horticultural Lighting Industry

Nowadays the number of LED lighting providers is growing rapidly creating confusion for growers when making their purchase decisions

IGrow PreOwned 12/11/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/11/18

The Importance of Daily Light Integral (DLI) For Indoor Cannabis Cultivation

Daily light integral (DLI), represents the number of photosynthetically active photons that are delivered to a given space over the course of a day

IGrow PreOwned 12/8/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/8/18

The Benefits of Installing Light Movers In A Grow Room

Light mover automation is an important part of the growroom set-up, and the more we automate, the better

IGrow PreOwned 12/7/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/7/18

Bio-Dome At St Mary's Junior School

Using our new LED Horticultural Grow Lights in order to help enhance plant growth, the Florence modules are perfect for use with or without supplemental lighting.

IGrow PreOwned 12/1/18 IGrow PreOwned 12/1/18

GroSouth 2018 Held on 1st November at Roundstone-Newey Nursery in Chichester Was An Important Day For Intelligent Horticultural Solutions (IHS)

IHS is a LED Light for You (LLFY) Partner, who draws on world leading quality LEDs from Osram Opto Semiconductors and combine them with other quality components, materials and services to provide the LED solution you want.

IGrow PreOwned 11/28/18 IGrow PreOwned 11/28/18

What Do GMP And GACP Certifications Mean For The Cannabis Industry?

As the world is rapidly opening up to cannabis, growers interested in cultivating it can choose between the two markets to serve: recreational or medicinal

IGrow PreOwned 11/26/18 IGrow PreOwned 11/26/18

Wageningen University Announces Course On Lighting In Greenhouses And Vertical Farms

The course is held in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Registration for the course in February 2019 is now possible.

IGrow PreOwned 11/24/18 IGrow PreOwned 11/24/18

Samsung Electronics Expands Horticulture LED Lineups To Advance Greenhouse And Vertical Farming

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in advanced digital component solutions, today announced new horticulture LED lineups, including full-spectrum packages and modules as well as color (monochromatic) LEDs.

IGrow PreOwned 11/21/18 IGrow PreOwned 11/21/18

Growing Crops that Demand a Lot of Light?

The new Philips GreenPower LED Toplighting High Output is just what you need.

IGrow PreOwned 11/20/18 IGrow PreOwned 11/20/18

Propagating Floriculture Crops Under Sole-Source Lighting

This production method allows growers to strictly control the growing climate to best meet the needs of a given plant throughout the day.