LEDgardener

Hey everyone I’m a new member here and really glad I found this place. I’m going to start working on a project soon and could use your help. As of now I’m growing in a 2’x4’ tent using a Timber 3VL light and would like to build a bud booster and exotic board combo like the set rapidled sells. This is a schematic I’ve put together of what I’m thinking about building and need to know if this looks okay or if I need more/less photo red, far red, uv, ir. Also does the placement look okay or should I try to put everything in the spaces between the cobs and make 2 pucks. I also plan on wiring everything to a bluefish mini so I can dim each color separately.

Hmm, I haven't come across anything that says >800nm is beneficial. I would maybe swap those IR diodes for 660nm. People say infrared heats up the leaf surface temperature, correlating infrared with HPS. The heat involved in hps is Fucking High* and I doubt some led diodes can match that. I will throw you a curve ball: Sub-canopy / inter-canopy / side lighting is a better bud booster than changes in light quality from the top.

* DOI: 10.1080/00994480.1983.10748842

Migro channel on Youtube just posted an interview/research discussion about an interaction effect between red, far red and overall light intensity.

(Additionally, plants are unaffected by the light emitted from 850nm IR cameras all night)

Thanks for your replies! I would have replied sooner but got caught up with the holidays. I wasn’t real sure about adding the 840nm ir’s but figured I would add them in since rapidled has a few on the exotic board. At this point in time I really don’t need supplemental/side lighting just looking to add a few extra spectrums to help out trichomes and terps. I think swapping out the ir’s for more 660’s would be the best. I also plan to add 2 26w UVB150 CFLs to go with the uva led’s.