Over the next several years, the responsibility of bridging the gap between projected food supply and demand in urban areas will largely fall on vertical farms....
Vertical farming in the cannabis industry is one of the most innovative and visually striking ways to make optimal use of space, but vertical farming isn't for every grower. ...
Cannabis is a unique plant to study from a photo-biological perspective, because it can take on more light than most commercial crops with almost no ill effects. In fact, because cannabis produces more of its valuable commodities when it is pushed to its limits, our...
In a recent Fluence webinar, Leo Lansbergen, horticulture services specialist at Fluence, discusses how broad-spectrum LED lighting delivers significant increases in cucumber yield and fruit weight while speeding time from flowering to harvest – all in comparing different lighting technologies and spectra, from HPS to...
Editor’s note: Refer back to the Fluence blog for Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 for tips on how to cultivate cannabis. While there is an art to delivering high-quality plant products to the market, there is most definitely a science to optimizing plant...
Editor’s note: As part of the upcoming release of the Fluence Cannabis Cultivation guide (available later this month), we have released best practices how to maintain a healthy grow environment (Part 1, Part 2). Published below, Part 3 of this series dives into two Q&A...
How to Ensure Proper Crop Fertilization Editor’s note: This is Part 2 in a blog series, outlining best practices for cannabis cultivation. Read Part 1 here for more information on pH testing and fertigation strategy. Be sure to come back on March 30 and March 31...
Best Practices for Monitoring pH for Cannabis Editor’s note: Balancing pH is a critical component to ensuring nutrient solubility and uptake for cannabis. As part of the upcoming release of the Fluence Cannabis Cultivation guide (available later this month), we are releasing tips on how...
A recently released study conducted by Fluence and Döhler explores how lighting affects one of the most popular culinary herbs grown in greenhouses around the world, the sweet basil plant. The delivery of potted sweet basil plants to grocery store shelves effectively enables consumers to have...
Thanks to the pioneering efforts of Joanne Logan at the University of Tennessee and Jim Faust at Clemson University, Fluence is pleased to offer annual Daily Light Integral (DLI) maps from around the world. These maps help illustrate how supplemental lighting can be leveraged to...