Determine Optimal Light Intensities for Indoor Medical Cannabis Production

绿色救济公司(GR)是一家有执照的大麻产品生产商。该公司一直在使用水生植物共生技术在LED提供的100%人工照明下种植医用大麻。照明能源是这个种植者和其他室内植物种植者的主要成本之一。光合作用存在一个最佳的活化辐射（PAR），在此条件下，作物的产量在生长环境的限制下达到最大，或者在某一点上，作物的产量相对于光输入的成本达到最佳。然而，该公司并不知道其作物的最佳PAR。目前文献中也没有关于大麻的此类数据。该项目将确定绿色救济设施目前种植的几种主要大麻品种的最佳光照强度。这项研究将由大学研究人员和GR公司的工作人员联合进行。该项目将导致1）为一家快速增长的加拿大生物技术公司增加收入; 2）拓宽加拿大公司的市场; 3）提高大学团队的知识并丰富他们在大麻（以及其他作物）室内生产方面的经验。

Green Relief Inc. (GR) is a licensed producer of cannabis products. The company has been growing medicalcannabis using aquaponics under 100% artificial lighting provided by LEDs. Energy for lighting is one of themajor costs for this grower as for other indoor plant growers. There is an optimum of photosynthetically activeradiation (PAR) at which the yield is maximized within the constraints of the growing environment or a pointwhere the yield is optimized against the cost of light input. However, the company does not know the optimalPAR for their crops. Also there is no such data on cannabis in the literature at this moment. This project willdetermine the optimal light intensities for the production of a few main cannabis strains currently grown in theGreen Relief facility. The research will be conducted jointly by the university researchers and staff of thecompany at the GR's facility. This project will lead to 1) an increase in revenue for a rapidly-growing Canadianbiotech company; 2) broaden a Canadian company's market; 3) improve the university team's knowledge andenrich their experience in indoor production of cannabis (as well as other crops).