Fluence by OSRAM (Fluence) recently released its sixth annual "State of the Cannabis Lighting Market" report in partnership with Cannabis Business Times.
The results from this year's report create another invaluable layer of research supporting the efficacy of Led ljus as a solution for full-cycle cannabis cultivation. The report utilizes data collected from cultivators throughout North America following an in-depth survey by Readex Research, a nationally acclaimed, third-party research organization.
"In recent years, not only have we observed the meteoric rise in LED adoption, but cannabis cultivators in particular are realizing the benefits of LED lighting strategies at each stage of plant production," says Fluence CEO David Cohen. "At Fluence, we are led by science in our exploration of the interaction between light and life to yield a healthier, more sustainable world."
The report provides a holistic view on the connection between different lighting solutions and plant growth across all stages — propagation, vegetation, and flowering — analyzing which solutions note upward trends of adoption by cannabis cultivators and why. Key findings include:
LED-belysning är den bästa-belysningsmetoden bland odlare i hela Nordamerika, ledande inom alla kategorier: förökning, vegetation och blomning.
LED-användningen för cannabisodling har ökat med mer än 45 procent för alla tillväxtstadier sedan den första rapporten 2016.
Den senaste tidens ökningar av LED-användning tillskrivs delvis den ökande implementeringen av vertikala ställningar, som såg små ökningar över vegetation och blomning.
63 procent av odlarna som för närvarande inte använder lysdioder under blomningen överväger att implementera lösningarna under de kommande 12 månaderna
Undersökningsresultat rapporterade att 60 procent av deltagarna angav att belysningsarmaturs dimningsfunktioner är lika viktiga eller mycket viktiga för deras odlingsverksamhet.
15 procent av jordfräsarna sa att hanteringen av energikostnaderna är den största utmaningen när man överväger LED-belysning.
"Under LEDs, we were seeing buds that were tighter and terpene tests that were higher than what we'd see with traditional HPS lights," says Matt LaBrier, Chief Operations Officer at Proper Cannabis. "As power becomes more of a regulator in the indoor farming space and farmers educate themselves, everyone is going to go to LED in vertical farming."
Rapporten innehåller en omfattande översikt över ljustrender inom cannabisodling, inklusive samtal med cannabisodlare och tankeledare i hela Nordamerika från organisationer som Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation (TOCC), Fog City Farms, Resource Innovation Institute (RII), Columbia Care, och mer.
