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My Archontophoenix cunninghamiana Is Really Likimg This Light


PalmTreeDude

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I have this artificial light that I bought for pepper plants (which basically didn't respond to it at all), but my Archontophoenix cunninghamiana seedling seems to like it. It has been growing quickly with it, for being indoors. It gives off a small amount of heat too, not much, maybe one or two degrees F, but I believe it helps a bit. I marked the spear with a Sharpe a couple days ago and it has been growing steadily. 

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"artificial light" is not very descriptive.  Is it halogen, LED?  Some of the better LED's can have 5-6 wavelengths.  The key is to hit a broad swath of PAR from 400-700nm.  This is where chlorophyl and other photosynthetically active chromophores absorb.  Some of these lights can grow soft corals in a saltwater tank, much tougher than an archie.  PRoblem is as they get tall the lower leaves are going to be much further away from the light and the PAR intensity will drop off with the square of the distance.  In other words 2x as far is 4x less light.

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Formerly in Gilbert AZ, zone 9a/9b. Now in Palmetto, Florida Zone 9b/10a??

 

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