$$ Benefits of Supplemental Lighting $$

Can you afford NOT to light??

Potted Plants:

• Plant size will increase up to 30%
• Increase number of flowers with better colour
• More vigorous plant growth
• Easier, more consistent crop scheduling
• Year round uniformity
• Stronger, healthier plants resistant to disease/pests
• Knock days, even weeks off crop times
• Improved quality = 1st to be called
  by customers

Bedding Plants:

• Potential to "double-up" spring crops (plant early, ship, plant again, ship)
• Early bloomers sell first
• Plant size increase up to 20%
• Plants are firmer, more vigorous and bran( much better
• Germination increases

Stock Plants:

• Motherplants can produce up to 25% more cuttings
• Larger, heavier cuttings
• Stronger, healthier plants resistant to disease/pests
• Cuttings root faster Cut Flowers:
• Plants produce up to 50% more stems
• Stronger stems less likely to damage during harvesting/packing
• Enhanced colour and size of blooms
• Higher resistance to pests/disease, less pesticides
• Grow summer varieties during winter
• Production planning more predictable and uniform

Vegetables:

• Year round production
• Produce when prices are higher
• Large increases in volume kg/m2, better use of growing space
• Less "aborted" flowers
• Healthier disease resistant plants, less pesticides
• Labour planning easier and more uniform
• Better tasting product
• Ability to compete with foreign markets