Why asymmetrical optics in tomato cultivation? We know that tomatoes (and many other crops) are grown in rows, equidistant from each other and with precise arrangements to facilitate their cultivation, maintenance and harvest.
In winter crops, even at different latitudes, lamps are often used to stimulate their maturation and especially their flavor (carotenoid development). The lamps and with them we now only speak of LED lamps, not because of our professional deformation, but for now obvious reasons of energy consumption, must try to be as efficient as possible.
Efficient, in this context, means delivering more micromoles at lower energy consumption.
Tomatoes grow lush and full of flavor if they receive many micromoles, but are we sure that they receive them? Unfortunately, these often do not coincide with the micromoles of the lamp. The use of narrow or asymmetric optics allows the lamp to concentrate most of the micromoles only on the crop. If such optics are not used, many micromoles are lost, in the sky, around the greenhouse, on the ground (between one row and another).
Not only do narrow optics also manage to put light (and therefore micromoles) in the middle of the row (recalling the old interlighting) where natural light doesn’t reach.
Luxled uses ultraclear silicone optics in the STL H line to channel and amplify all the micromoles to the plant, from the head to the deepest leaves.