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Does your cannabis plant know that it’s growing indoors? Cannabis plants thrive outdoors, and indoor cultivators strive to recreate the outdoor setting in an indoor grow tent. Simulating natural sunlight is the most critical piece of the puzzle to solve to truly bring the outdoors inside. The closer you can recreate the effects of natural sunlight in an indoor grow tent, the more your plant will flourish.

It’s a rule of thumb that cannabis plants need light matching an 18/6 hour schedule during growth stages and a 12/12 hour light schedule during flowering. One element lacking from this setup is the intensity of the lights. The sun moves throughout the day and doesn’t give intense, direct sunlight for all daylight hours. Lights in a grow tent, however, are constantly radiating on your cannabis plant at the same intensity the entire duration of the light cycle—and your plant can tell the difference!

Trick your plant into thinking that it’s actually getting natural sunlight by shifting LED intensity based on actual sunlight patterns. That means more intense LED light during the middle of the day and reduced intensity in the morning and evening hours.

Artificial Intelligence is a way for growers to achieve stimulated light intensity with surprising accuracy. Here’s how it can revolutionise the way you grow cannabis at home.

Benefits of dynamic LED grow light intensity

Plants learn a lot based on the intensity of light. High light intensity informs the plant that it’s the middle of the day and time to absorb the most sunlight. Lower intensity signals that night is approaching or the end of the growing season is near. Cannabis plants alter their growth patterns based on their response to the sunlight.

Dynamic light intensity refers to the variation in intensity throughout the day and seasons. Basic indoor grow tents minimise the change in intensity by maintaining consistent, intense lights throughout the entire light schedule. Introducing AI-powered dynamic light intensity into your setup can:

• Stimulate natural sunlight
• Energy efficient cultivation

Better recreate natural sunlight effects

Artificial Intelligence technology helps track data about the sun and other weather conditions. Advanced models can automate settings in a grow tent to correspond to the data. Some of the data collected to determine light intensity include:

AI contextualises the data to decide whether to provide higher or lower light intensity.

More energy-efficient cultivation

High-intensity LED lights use more energy than less-intensity lights. In a typical setup, growers can expect to maintain the entire light intensity throughout the light phase. Alternatively, dynamic light intensity creates periods of lower intense light. These low light intensity periods use less energy than the peak intensity.

How to use AI to sync grow cycles

Growers are already using artificial intelligence in home grow tents to optimise their grow. Syncing LED intensity with the sun hours is a way growers can utilise the power of AI to make their home cultivation more sustainable due to reduced energy consumption.

Various AI platforms have capabilities to analyse data and provide corresponding instructions on how to modify grow tent settings to match sun hours. For example, ChatGPT is helpful with tracking weather data to determine hourly light intensity levels. Also, Microsoft Copilot can analyse data tracked in Microsoft Excel to determine a light intensity pattern.

Use the collected data to inquire AI about the best light intensity settings to match the natural sunlight. Since light changes throughout the day, it can provide a recommendation for each hour to track the sun accurately. Manual adjustments for light intensity are typical. However, upgraded technology can soon automate this process.

Measure the light intensity inside a grow tent using a light meter. Apps are also available on smartphones. The goal is to match the light intensity based on the data analysed by AI. To adjust light intensity, you can:

• Raise/lower lights
• Increase/decrease brightness
• Use different colour lights

With AI, you can recreate outside settings for each phase of the growth cycle. You can set the light intensity to match the optimal settings, whether your plant needs more intense light during the growing stage or less intense light as it transitions into the flowering stage (similar to the change in seasons).

Finding the optimal light intensity

A benefit to using a grow tent to cultivate cannabis is controlling the climate. Growers in regions less popular for growing cannabis outdoors can simulate the ideal conditions right inside the grow tent. Target climate data from suitable growing environments to yield the best results with this technique.

The Mediterranean climate is the best for growing cannabis. Use data from sunlight patterns in Mediterranean regions to recreate the perfect environment for your cannabis plant.

The type of cannabis seeds you use also determines the optimal sunlight strategy. For example, autoflower cannabis seeds have a shorter grow cycle and are best suited to shorter growing seasons. Other strains thrive with high and frequent light intensity.

Explore our collection of premium cannabis seeds and optimise your grow light intensity with the help of AI.