New Grower A Question On If/How To Attain Red Light...

[squeege]

Hi all,

I have just purchased a 4 LED ("ice white") solar-powered light...

Now my question is... I have been reading around that "red light" is better for flowering...

So in other words, should I just leave the light as is, or place red film over it to produce "red"?

I understand certain types of light produce red light ie. low Kelvin ones, which
this light I believe is (shows 1 bar of 4 on the light scale) but I want
to know if red film would make a difference in producing more "red light"?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Fantasy Island]

Im pretty sure it dosnt work that way. You should post this question in the LED section. Im sure you will get your answer there.

 

[BII]

I have no idea what an "ice white" "solar-powered [?]" LED is. If it has a white spectrum, it presumably is full spectrum, has everything, likely including the red you want.

Otherwise, "red light" takes in an awful lot, particularly with LEDs being so frequency-specific. What frequencies do you want?

Film is only a filter, only ever removing light, other than mostly a small range of frequencies/wavelengths (here red). And any filter is going to significantly reduce what you want, the red light that passes through it. Filters don't add any light, nor shift frequencies/wavelengths, and there is no reason to filter any light (if it's useless to the plant, just leave it, it won't harm anything, like nature/the sun). So forget funky filters.

 

[Fantasy Island]

 

[squeege]

OK... thank you BII... I just wasn't too sure.