Philips Lighting Introduces New LED Flowering Lamps

Philips Lighting has launched the Philips GreenPower LED flowering lamp 2.0, an energy efficient way to extend daylight or interrupt the night growing cycle in greenhouses for growers that cultivate strawberries, cut flowers, bedding plants and cuttings.

The new Philips GreenPower LED flowering lamp 2.0 builds on the first generation of Philips GreenPower LED flowering lamp and comes in two different spectral versions with light recipes for growing cut flowers and soft fruit. The new lamp is designed to increase the yield, quality and consistency of crops and stimulate flowering.

The next generation lamp provides an optimum spectrum and high light output and allows growers to save electricity costs by being 90 percent more energy efficient than conventional incandescent lamps, according to Philips. The lamps have a standard E27 or E26 fitting allowing them to be used in existing installations.

Philips Lighting has created light recipes which combine the following elements: light spectrum, intensity, uniformity, timing and positioning. The Philips GreenPower LED flowering lamp 2.0 is available with two different spectral versions: one offers a combination of deep red and white (DR/W) and the other a combination of deep red/white/ far red (DR/W/FR). The DR/W light version inhibits flowering of short-day plants, and has for example been very effective with chrysanthemums. The DR/W/FR light version is ideal for photoperiodic lighting of bedding and perennials. It can extend the day or interrupt the night cycle to promote elongation of the stems of strawberries and stimulate flowering.

The Phillips Green Power LED flowering lamp 2.0 looks like an incandescent lamp, but is made of plastic that mitigates the risk of damage to crops that can occur from broken glass lamps, according to the company. The lamp is designed to last at least 25,000 hours and is rated for IP44 and UL damp and dry conditions indoors. Trials in countries which use photoperiodic lighting to produce cuttings or cut flowers have reported that the flowering lamp is much more stable on the energy grid compared to incandescent or ”twisters” (CFLs), so there is less risk of quality issues in crop production.