Cultivation of high quality cuttings using near to full-spectrum LED

A new shop and cultivation location is planned. Beside a selected assortment of well known and tested equipment, a new cultivation area for high quality young cannabis plants will be setup. The equipment used for cultivation is available in the shop for the customer.
A high-quality standard for the cultivated plants is required while the costs for the Lamp as well as running costs like electricity and maintenance must remain low. DrGreen conducted a test using hortiONE 592 LED grow light to test and qualify a possible use.

Cost-efficient LED to be used for young plant production.
Closer to Full-Spectrum LED-light for natural growth with natural colour rendering of the plants.

• LED-Cost / m² – Lifetime and consumption
• High product-quality (plants) which includes:
  • Stable propagation and root development
  • Proper stem thickness and internode distance.
  • Healthy plants. Overall healthiness
• Cultivation-time (propagation time or rooting of cuttings)
• Natural development of the plant
  Reproducible process

hortiONE 592 uses 576x white-spectrum mid-power LEDs from Seoul Semiconductor (SSC). The 3030 Series has one of the highest industry standards in photosynthetic photon Efficacy (PPE) with a near to full-spectrum (neutral white, CRI80) Colour. (Seoul Semiconductor, 2020). The Lamp also uses 16x high-power Hyper red LEDS at 660nm leading to a total amount of 592 LEDs. The test has been carried out at the already existing setup with known Plants genetics (strains) and cultivation methods in order to be able to compare the results with other LED-Types.

The Plants germinated / rooted quickly and created a healthy root-system.

During cultivation, the Shape of the Plant (Morphogenesis) developed naturally and healthy. The  focus was lying on an adequate stem-thickness and relatively short internodes. A long internode  distance also referred as elongation or luxuriant growth indicates too low light intensities or an  imbalances red to blue ratio.

The near to Full-Spectrum LED led to an overall healthy and natural grown plant as required. All  tested plants developed with the desirable outcome. Constant results with a variety of different  plant-genetics are very important as the cultivation area must be able to work with a variety of  different strains.