Fluence by OSRAM (Fluence) recently released its sixth annual "State of the Cannabis Lighting Market" report in partnership with Kannabis viðskiptatímar.
The results from this year's report create another invaluable layer of research supporting the efficacy of LED lýsing 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 lýsing er helsta-ljósaaðferðin meðal ræktenda um Norður-Ameríku, leiðandi í öllum flokkum: fjölgun, gróður og blómgun.
LED notkun fyrir kannabisræktun hefur aukist um meira en 45 prósent á öllum stigum vaxtar frá fyrstu skýrslu árið 2016.
Nýlegar aukningar í LED innleiðingu má að hluta til rekja til aukinnar útfærslu á lóðréttum rekkum, sem sáu lítilsháttar aukningu á gróðri og blómstrandi.
63 prósent ræktenda sem eru ekki að nota LED meðan á blómgun stendur eru að íhuga að innleiða lausnirnar á næstu 12 mánuðum
Niðurstöður könnunar greindu frá því að 60 prósent þátttakenda gáfu til kynna að hæfileikar til að deyfa ljósabúnað séu jafn mikilvægir eða mjög mikilvægir fyrir ræktunarstarfsemi þeirra.
15 prósent ræktenda sögðu að stjórnun orkukostnaðar væri mesta áskorunin þegar litið er á LED lýsingu.
"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."
Skýrslan inniheldur yfirgripsmikið yfirlit yfir lýsingarþróun í kannabisræktun, þar á meðal samtöl við kannabisræktendur og hugsunarleiðtoga um Norður-Ameríku frá samtökum eins og Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation (TOCC), Fog City Farms, Resource Innovation Institute (RII), Columbia Care, og fleira.
