Far-red Light Can Reduce the Cannabis Flowering Period By Up to 15%

                      Author: Fairy Yuan            Email:  [email protected]           Whatsapp: +86 17749889289

Did you really know the effects of Far-red on cannabis?

The research shows that when you use it right, far-red light can reduce the flowering period by up to 15% and enable quicker crop turnover. An increasing number of horticultural lights incorporate FR, so it may come as a surprise that FR is not photosynthetically active; it does not drive photosynthesis directly.

That's not the only thing far red does, although 730nm far-red light has little significance for photosynthesis, its intensity and its ratio to 660nm far-red light play an important role in plant height, internode length, and other morphogenic formation of crops. Plant morphology and plant height were controlled by the R/FR ratio through light quality regulation. When the ratio increased, the distance between stem nodes became smaller, the plants became dwarfish, and the propagating plants tended to elongate. The change of ratio also affected axillary bud differentiation, chlorophyll content, stomatal index, and leaf area to varying degrees. The selective absorption of red light and the selective transmission of far-red light make the plants in the shade in a far-infrared enriched light environment.

But what's really interesting is the effect of far-red on cannabis yield. If you need your cannabis to keep flowering, or if you just want to increase yield, the temporary far-red effect will work wonders.

Using far-red light at the end of the day -- 10 minutes when the lights are on and then a few minutes when the normal lights are on -- makes plants bloom in the dark. Many growers claim that by using this technique, they can increase yields by 20% per year by shortening the daily growing cycle. 20% extra production is huge! Again, this is very strain-dependent. Different varieties start flowering at different times of darkness.

Another trick some growers use is to use full red at the end of the day and then wake up the plants in the morning with a deep red. This puts the plants to sleep and wakes them up more efficiently, maximizing photosynthesis during the day and metabolism at night.

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