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Types of Light Deprivation Greenhouses

Light deprivation comes in many forms, from low-cost setups to advanced systems. Growers have options for every budget and scale. Here’s a look at the main types and what each can offer:

Light Deprivation Hoop Houses

Hoop houses are smaller, semi-permanent greenhouses that you can use for growing space. Growers set up light deprivation using tarps to act as light traps. They place a tarp over the hoop house and connect it to a pulley system to cover and uncover the structure. When it’s time for sunlight, they pull the tarp away and then re-cover the greenhouse to block out the light.

Entry-level Greenhouses

Entry-level greenhouses, such as gable-style houses and high tunnels, can support multiple harvests per year. The addition of light deprivation curtains to block out outdoor light can also help regulate the temperature, humidity, and other environmental conditions.

These houses can make growing quite sustainable compared to outdoor growing with efficient resource use, reduced chemical inputs, and higher yields on less land.

Engineered Greenhouses With Automated Light Deprivation Systems

Greenhouses can be engineered to have fully automated light deprivation systems that allow growers to automate environmental controls. With full automation most growers end up with a better quality product and full bloom more times a year than if they did not have automated light deprivation. This means more harvesting and more revenue. Having a commercial light deprivation greenhouse is the way to go. It being automated to a set schedule is even better.

You may still be asking the question of why light deprivation is needed in your greenhouse structure?

The Advantages of Using a Light Deprivation Greenhouse

There are many advantages to having a commercial light deprivation greenhouse, that include:

• Allows total control over the amount of sunlight your plants get or do not get
• Growers can create their own crop schedule and perfect it to the exact time each stage of growth needs to ensure crops are ready for harvesting when growers need them to be
• Automated light deprivation systems are able to keep themselves on schedule
• Creates the ability for year round harvest, skyrocketing your revenue
• Provides you with a better quality product because you can completely control their environment

A light deprivation system along with horizontal air flow (HAF) fans or exhaust fans and other greenhouse systems to control the environment, will make your greenhouse structure successful. Prospiant has all kinds of environmental controls to ensure that you can grow the way you want to grow.