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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Yep, but it is confusing for many, if not most people. A lot of people simply don't understand why plant growth lights are pinkish-violet, not green.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I teach art classes. People seem to get it.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And? I talk to non-art students. If you never have to think about it, most people won't. I promise you, there are plenty of "obvious" topics you are oblivious to and misunderstand. We all have them.

[–] Wren@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago

I don't teach art students, I teach one-off classes to teens and adults.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

plant growth lights are pinkish-violet

Really shitty ones are. High quality grow lights use full-spectrum lights including far-red and infrared, and are proven to be more effective than the so called "blurple" temu lights

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

And you can see sooo much of the infrared and ultraviolet part of the spectrum. What you see is still a kind of pinkish-violet.

By the way, no LED based light is "full spectrum". That is a common lie. Growth lights have violet-blue LEDs in the 200-400nm range, and red ones in the 600-800nm range.

If you do a spectrum analysis of any LED light, you will see distinctive, narrow peaks around the LEDs core frequencies, usually with a bandwidth of 12-40nm.

For absortion ranges of Chlorophyll A and B, see for example https://www.mpsd.mpg.de/17628/2015-04-chlorophyll-rubio