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Mature cannabis plant indoors under advanced LED grow lights for cannabis.

Looking Up Indoors – How to Select the Best LED Fixtures for You

It is easy to get lost in a sea of options nowadays, but with a little sifting the gold is even easier to spot. Let...

Person tending cannabis plants under LED grow lights in commercial cultivation facility.

Growing Up Indoors – How Fluence Can Assist with Valuable Incentives and Rebates

If you are looking to grow your operation by retrofitting for LEDs, multi-tiered racking, or both, then Fluence can get you started by calculating ROI...

2021 Plant Lighting event banner: cannabis lighting, LED grow lights, cultivation science.

Four insights for indoor cultivators from Fluence principal scientist Dr. David Hawley

Fluence principal scientist Dr. David Hawley spoke to indoor cultivators as part of the 2021 Virtual Plant Lighting Short Course, presented by GLASE, LAMP and...

Cannabis plants thrive under LED grow lights for commercial cannabis cultivation.

Saving Up Indoors – How to Calculate and Assess LED Financials and ROI

As technology advances, it also becomes more affordable both at the point of purchase and throughout its life span. This is especially true for LED...

Commercial cannabis cultivation with LED grow lights on multi-tier shelving units.

Ramping Up Indoors

It may seem obvious, but most flora–especially cannabis plants–absolutely love light. In nature, plants must compete with each other for limited sunlight, space, and resources,...

Indoor cannabis under LED grow lights for cannabis, used in commercial cultivation.

Cooling Up Indoors – How Fluence LEDs Solve Overheating and Environmental Control

Many indoor and vertical growers are switching from their legacy lighting systems to LEDs simply because LED technology provides tremendous ROI benefits with fewer costs,...

Cannabis plants thriving on racks under LED grow lights for cannabis cultivation.

Switching Up Indoors – Why Growers World-Wide are Upgrading to LEDs

They say a penny saved is a penny earned, but why not do both? 52% of commercial growers reported using LEDs as of 2020–an increase...

Rows of cannabis plants under commercial LED grow lights in a high-tech greenhouse.

Funding the Future: Enhancing LED Investment

Cultivators recognize the ever-increasing importance of using LEDs to grow healthier, more flavorful, and more consistent crops while lowering energy use. Yet, the journey from...

Commercial cannabis plants thriving under LED grow lights in a modern greenhouse.

Predicting Lighting ROI like a Pro

The ROI for LEDs relies on a variety of critical factors such as location and climate, the type of crops grown, environmental conditions, facility design...

Ceiling-mounted LED grow light for commercial cannabis cultivation in greenhouse.

Choosing the Right LEDs for your Greenhouse Part II: Fixtures

In Part I, we discussed the spectral output of LED lights and the impact that various spectra can have on crop yield and output (as...