Growers Centre

Understanding the impact of Daily Light Integral

This free guide provides a detailed overview of the importance of DLI to crops, how it varies globally, and how LED technology can be used to meet these targets.

Understanding the impact of Far-Red

This free guide provides an overview of the impact of Far-Red and explains how you can gain a business advantage by producing light that matches both the plants and your needs.

Producing High-Quality, Profitable Food Crops Faster

Shining a different light on growing herbs, lettuce, leafy greens, microgreens and vine crops.

Canadian Rebates and Energy Savings

This free guide provides a detailed overview of rebates and incentives available in Canada for LEDs or retrofits and the payback one can expect in 2021.

Optimizing Indoor Agriculture

This free guide provides a detailed overview of the type of rebates available for grow operations and the payback one can expect in 2021.

The Far-Red Phenomenon – Webinar

Explore best practices for far-red lighting with experts from Heliospectra, Delphy, and Gold Leaf Technologies.

To Breed A Seed, There is a Need for Speed

Dr. Lee Hickey of University of Queensland and Heliospectra's Plant & Light Expert Ida Fällström highlight speed breeding protocols and simple ways to start your own seed to seed generation projects.

Customized Lighting Strategies for Grow Zones

Heliospectra's Technical Solutions Manage Johan Lindqvist presents at the 2022 Tech 4.0 Conference on CEA 4.0.

helioLESSON 1: Basics of Lighting for Horticulture

Watch this short crash course on the basics of lighting, coverings topics such as: what light is, what is a spectrum, what is light intensity, as well as other fundamental core concepts within plant lighting!

Elixia led grow lights at Greenbelt Greenhouse

Greenhouse Lighting Strategies for Vegetable Transplant and Finish

Growing lettuce, herbs and vegetables in your greenhouse? Dr. Roberto Lopez of Michigan State University shares ways to address seasonal daylight and photoperiod changes to improve crop performance, color and appearance.

The Road Ahead for Vertical Farming

Designed for vertical farmers, cultivatiors and operation teams looking to connect with industry leaders to better understand the opportunities and challenges facing the vertical farming industry in 2020 and beyond.

helioLESSON 2: Light Intensity and Basics of DLI

Part 2 of our "By Growers for Growers Educational Series"! In this lesson our Technical Solutions Manager, Johan Lindqvist, will be going over topics including light intensity, and DLI amongst many others!

Growing Tomatoes in an Autonomous Greenhouse

This webinar features the creators and winners of Wageningen University’s Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge who share how autonomous greenhouses can drive significant opportunity for the horticulture industry.

Greenhouse Operations: The New Normal After COVID-19

Hear from greenhouse operations and facilities managers about how companies are keeping their teams connected, businesses running and standard operating procedures (SOPs) updated to protect crops and employees.

Using Light to Regulate the Quality of Greenhouse Grown Crops

Dr. Karl-Johan Bergstrand of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) shares light strategies and end of production (EOP) treatments to enhance herbs, lettuce and ornamentals in greenhouses.

Ljusgårda, The Ultimate Vertical Growth: From 0 – 7000m2 in 3 years

During this free webinar you can learn from CEO Andreas Wilhelmsson about Ljusgårda’s commitment to locally grown, fresh produce and their incredible business growth over the past three years.

Cultivating Local Market Demand for Greenhouse Herbs & Plants

Neame Lea Fresh, a part of the United Kingdom’s Bridge Farm Group, shares local market knowledge on fresh food production and strategies to take the highest quality produce to market quickly.

Poster – Ljusgårda

Ida Fällström and Daniel Bånkestad from Heliospectra togehter with Shirin Moradi & Magnus Crommert from Ljusgårda conducted the growth performance of two type of lettuce grown in different lighting strategies.

Graph showing the wasted PPFD from LED lights vs HPS lights

Poster – Intelligently controlled LEDs

Johan lindqvist from Heliospectra togehter with David Llewellyn & Youbin Zheng from University of Guelph conducted how intelligently controlled LEDs can be used to more efficiently manage supplemental lighting in greenhouse production systems.

Poster – Herbs & Leafy vegetable

Ida Fallström, Plant and Light Expert and Daniel Bånkestad, Reserach Manager from Heliospectra conducted a comparison of herbs and leafy vegetable growth under various energy efficient LED light regimes.

Poster – Arabidopsis thaliana

A study led by Grazyna Bochenek and Tessa Pocock of Heliospectra explores the fascinating range of responses in Arabidopsis thaliana accessions to low levels of far-red LED light.

Poster – LED grow lights

Join us in a research endeavor alongside Grażyna Bochenek and Ida Fällström from Heliospectra as they investigate the advantegs of LED grow light with Far-Red enriched spectrum.

Three tomato plants grown under no far-red, End of the day far-red and Far-red

Poster – Tomato Seedling

A study by Ida Fällström, Grazyna Bochenek, and Fei Jia from Heliospectra that examines the effect of far-red (FR) enriched spectrum and end-of-day FR on tomato seedling in a controlled environment.

Poster – Growth Efficacy

Ida Fällström, Fei Jia & Johan lindqvist conduct the Impact of Light Spectrum and Energy Efficiency on Plant Growth Under Sole-Source LED Lighting.

Poster – Canopy

Monitoring photosynthesis on canopy level using proximal remote sensing of chlorophyll fluorescene yield. By Daniel Bånkestad from Heliospectra, Linnéa Ahlman & Torsten Wik from Chalmers University of Technology and Karl-Johan Bergstrand & Jean W. H. Yong from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

Poster – Lettuce

Heliospectra's Ida Fallstrom presents at the International Light Symposium 2021 on how specific spectrums of light can induce red coloration in lettuce.

Resources for Growers