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Video: Purdue Horticulture LED Open House 2014

On January 31, Hort Americas and Purdue organized a open house event to showcase the use of LEDs and high-wire tomato research on January 31 at Purdue University Greenhouses in West Lafayette, Indiana.

In this video you can learn about Horticultural LED Grow Lights from the experts. Dr. Roberto Lopez, Dr Cary Mitchell and Students explore LED Grow Lights as both a sole source and supplemental source of growth light for commercially grown crops.

Trials include: production of plugs in multilayer chamber using LEDs (sole-source), LED photo-periodic lighting of annuals, end of production LED lighting to enhance foliage colour, and tower intra-canopy (interlighting) supplemental LED lighting of tomatoes.

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