Whether to use HPS or LED for commercial cannabis cultivation has always been a tangled issue. Many people know that LED lights are higher than HPS, although more durable, but the initial investment cost is higher.
What many people don't know is that LEDs are creating greater profit margins for growers in terms of planting environmental control. This is why in just 4 years, the growers who use Led Grow Lights at all stages have increased from 21% to more than 60%.
The pursuit of cannabis cultivation is high yield, and high yield must rely on a stable and controllable cultivation environment. LED Grow Lights have the following advantages in assisting environmental control:
1 Saving HAVC device cost and better for Vapor Pressure Deficit Management:
The heat dissipation of LED work is much smaller than that of HPS. On the one hand, it can save the cost of HAVC equipment and the cost of power consumption.
On the other hand, the temperature fluctuates greatly when the HPS is turned on and off, and another key link in planting is VPDM. When the temperature fluctuates greatly, because HAVC is too late to adjust, it is likely to cause too high or too low VPD, hindering the growth of plants, but using LED is more conducive to faster control of temperature stability and maintain a stable VPD.
2 Reduce the use of chemicals:
We know that light with specific wavelength can kill viruses or bacteria but safe to human and plan, for example the 405nm.
Because LED lights can be customized to emit light of specific wavelengths, they can have the advantage of sterilization, create a healthy environment for plant growth, reduce the use of chemicals, and bring to stabilize organic production. Refer to this article to learn how grow lights can protect plant health: https://www.ultraplantled.com/news/why-your-cannabis-grow-light-needs-uv-77491.html
3 Precise lighting strategy control:
At the early time, we shared that different kinds of plants / the different cultivars of the same plant, and different growth stages of plants have various needs for light spectrum and light intensity (https://www.ultraplantled.com/news/different-plant-needs-different-grow-light-cannabis-cultivation-research-78090.html).
The spectrum of HPS lamps is fixed and doesn't give the most suitable spectrum. But spectrum of LED grow lights can be customize. However, most of time the spectrum only can customized in the factory, it can't fit for each cultivator.
A a better choice is an intelligent LED grow lights, such as our Ultra Plant™, have dual functions of spectrum regulation + lighting plan automation. Each growers can adjust according to the changes in actual situation any time.
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