Fluence and Delphy Improvement Center Announce LED Strawberry Research
April 28, 2021 Fluence, a provider of LED lighting for both food and cannabis production, and Delphy Improvement Center, an independent research center in the Netherlands, have unveiled their current strawberry LED research.
Strawberries are traditionally grown in outdoor conditions, but this new research highlights the potential of growing strawberries under LED lights.
“Strawberries are particularly sensitive to their environment, so studying the crop in a greenhouse climate enables us to explore supplemental lighting techniques growers can replicate year-round,” says Dr. David Hawley, Fluence’s Senior Scientist. “Teaming up with Delphy’s expert researchers affords us the opportunity to learn more about producing consistent, high-yielding strawberry plants under LED lighting to advance local production capabilities.”
Growers have shown increasing interest in switching from legacy systems such as high-pressure sodium lighting to LED fixtures to analyze how various light spectra affect crop quality and consistency. The study focuses on June-bearing strawberry cultivars under various Fluence’s PhysioSpec spectra offerings.
“In the research trial with Fluence, we’re using our teams’ collective knowledge and exchanging innovative ideas for growing techniques that will ultimately help growers deliver better products to local consumers all year,” says Lisanne Helmus, Manager of Research in Greenhouse Horticulture at Delphy. “Growers are searching for optimized lighting strategies and want to understand how their plants will react to artificial light. In this trial with Fluence, we’re inspired to answer their questions and discover new developments in lighting technology that will impact the entire cultivation system.”
Both companies expect to release their trial findings by the end of 2021.
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