Special Report: State of the Cannabis Lighting Market

November 5, 2019

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How to (Accurately) Calculate ROI on Your Lighting Retrofit

SPYDR 2h

King City Gardens’ Untold Story

6 Key Crop Lighting Design Considerations You Don't Want to Overlook

How to (Accurately) Calculate ROI on Your Lighting Retrofit

Are you overlooking these 5 critical factors in determining when you will see a return on your investment in LED lighting?

Inside a Clade9 veg room, which uses Fluence LEDs.

SPYDR 2h

SPYDR 2h is Fluence’s highest output SPYDR ever. Designed especially for the cannabis cultivator looking to push the bounds for quality, yield, and composition, SPYDR 2h takes tiered growing to the next level. See what another 28% of light intensity can do for your plants.

Fluence SPYDR2h

King City Gardens’ Untold Story

The cultivator battled supply chain woes, tight regulatory deadlines, labor hurdles and more to break into Ohio’s market — here’s what they learned.

King City Vice President of Operations Richard Mursinna

6 Key Crop Lighting Design Considerations You Don't Want to Overlook

From light uniformity to accurate grow-space modeling to spectral analysis, here are crucial factors to ensure your lighting design sets you up for commercial cultivation success.

For an apples-to-apples comparison, lighting plans must accurately represent your cultivation space. Walls and other surfaces still absorb photons in the PAR (Photosynthetic Active Radiation) range.

How Green Rose Co.’s LED Retrofit Boosted Yield and Quality While Cutting Costs

The California cannabis company shares details of its HPS to LED transition process, and the operational efficiencies and crop improvements gained along the way—from reduced HVAC needs and expenses to a more than 20% increase in flower weight.

Even though a retrofit is as easy as replacing lights one for one, each facility and each set of genetics can respond differently, Fluence Horticulture Service Specialist Taylor Kirk says. He stresses that it’s important to understand what a grower’s goals are for their crops and to try to help them achieve that as quickly as possible.

RAPTR Series

The RAPTR Series from Fluence is an advanced one-to-one HPS replacement top light designed to deliver maximum light intensity with industry leading efficacy.

Fluence RAPTR Series

FOHSE Inc. and Terp Mansion: Illuminating Solutions for Cultivation Challenges

Transitioning from traditional HPS lights to FOHSE's cutting-edge LED fixtures presents an opportunity to address cultivation challenges head-on.

Fohse Termmansion

Intercanopy Lighting Elevates Uniformity, Quality

Case studies at both indoor and greenhouse commercial cultivation facilities have produced promising results, showing that illuminating the lower canopy can translate to more consistent, higher-grade flower production and reduced trim.

LightSky, which has worked with Fluence for six years, installed the company’s VYNE lights to trial two different intercanopy lighting concepts.

Cultivating a Cannabis Hub in New York

Growing for the state’s new adult-use cannabis market was taxing in the beginning, but adding supplemental lighting helped change the trajectory for Echo Creek Farm and its cultivation partners.

Echo Creek Farm used Fluence VYNE lights in its greenhouse production in upstate New York.

VYNE Series – Intercanopy Lighting

Vyne Sideiso Female Nohangers

5 Tips to Go Beyond Custom Utility Rebates

Energy efficiency experts say there are opportunities for cannabis operators to save when installing individual fixtures and equipment and when considering system-wide improvements in cultivation facilities.

Utility Rebates

Intercanopy Lighting Trials Show Compelling Increases in Cannabis Quality, Consistency

Cultivators are working to understand how to best deploy lights within cannabis canopies to maximize results.

Intercanopy lighting trials at Texas Original.

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