In terms of work lights, there are many ways to organize your lights. In this article, we will discuss the correct way to set up lighting for edible indoor plants, such as the plants we sell in the lower leaves, so the first concept we need to understand The thing is, the behavior of artificial light that we use to replicate sunlight is very different from the sun itself, because you know the sun is millions of miles away, so when you’re talking about 93 million things, the effect of moving a plant a few inches is comparable In contrast, the impact of plants moving one mile away is basically negligible relative to the distance I planned. This may be amazing, and it may be the difference between a lush plant and a plant with artificial light like wither. Basically the so-called point light source and point light source.Every time you move twice the distance, the source of light follows an interesting relationship. The intensity of the light we reach falls on our leaves, or in this case, our meter counter It’s reduced by a quarter or 0.25 times, so what I’m doing here is basically shining the light directly on the meter counter "I will see that the area here is about four thousand five hundred, and what I want to do is Gradually move this light upwards, so our current distance is about two inches, you will note that our reading here is about 1800, so I will continue to walk away, we will rise to a position close to 4 inches, it still There is no drop of 1/4, but you know, honestly, the measured value here is not very accurate, but you will get a basic idea that when I lift the light up, the light intensity will drop sharply, even away from the standard The rod is only about 8 inches, I have dropped to about 200, so now it is about 5 percent of the strength we started, these plants should refer to see a face value between about 500 and a thousand, which will be a pretty good range , I realized that although not all of you will have a power meter, you can get it online if you want, but there are actually other ways to measure it yourself, and I’ll show you how to do it This, so if you want to try this operation at home, I suggest you download a metering application that I actually have installed, called a light meter, and it works by placing it under the light source. Using the front or rear camera on the phone, just click the button here, and you can see 434. When I move it down to the workbench, it reads more like 295 to 84. Basically, You can see that when I am from here to now, the light intensity is only about half. Please remember that these applications measure the unit of Lux, which is a more general measure of light intensity. It is related to some kind of light. Strength is related.As the essence of human reading or seeing, it is a unit commonly used by photographers in the plant world. We usually measure light in the face value of picomoles per meter square per nanosecond. This is the amount of light specific to and useful to plants. So the measurement results you get from these two measurements are not the same thing, just because the high measurement value you get here does not tell you that this is the correct light type for the plant, what it tells you is Your general sense of light intensity and what you can do is get a reference point from the sunlight, and then understand how bright your indoor light is compared to outdoor sunlight, so let me tell you what I mean, so this is New York City It was a cloudy day, it was the end of November, it was really cloudy outside here and I couldn't see the sun clearly. I’m not sure that even this amount of light is enough for growing edible plants, but I just want to show you the relationship between the light I pass through here and the light I pass on the bench there, so I will The phone and the app are placed next to the window here, I will capture the readings so that we can get something similar. Now use the app to view images in the 800-900 type range, and then compare it with the grow light in order to use the grow light Get the same value from 8 to 900. Ineed is about here, about three or four inches from the earth. Now, I myself still remember what to do here, because we are measuring at lux, we are measuring the human eye, not the plant Light intensity, so to make this comparison correctly, you actually need to use a dial indicator, but this is a special device, these things are not cheap you want to buy one, but if you just want to guide it and use it before , Then maybe you can start with an app like this, anyway you can go back to the parameter table and the plants that we have been to and tested the five best-selling grow lights, and checked how their intensity decreases with distance on Amazon, Weavers This picture summarizes these results for you. Not only can you see how fast the light intensity decreases with distance, but you can also see how different their intensity is on an absolute basis. This is actually a difference between good and bad. huge difference.For fast-growing edible plants that like light, the globe here is not good now. We recommend a face value of at least 400, but you cannot afford a face value as high as 1500. This picture shows that you do have a ball with optics, so it will project a fairly concentrated beam. You need to prepare a globe for these balls so that you can Install this kind of globe at a distance of four to six inches, just as some manufacturers may suggest that you put the earth to about twelve to eighteen inches, if you like low-light indoor plants like this guy, but for people like us For edible plants like things sold here, you must be if you are using non-directional light bulbs such as CFL or Compactfluorescent, you must now stay close to maintain this plant pattern. Basically, all the non-directional light bulbs have to do is throw them in all different directions. I will make some suggestions. First, get a lampshade like this. I know it’s not the most beautiful thing in the world, but it’s good for Watt. Efficiency is really important, we do have a separate article, but anyway, if you want to use the leaves of the plant that you want to be as close as possible to the CFL and almost kiss the leaves, this means you will need to come back every two days and have it Check it, the placement you want to avoid is obviously the leaves turned light and burned with a little cool basil fire, which is not very cool, so if you want to do this, be sure to pay attention to avoid any use. He is a globe of your edible plants, you almost need to touch the leaves, well, today's lighting article is what I hope. 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