Sollum Technologies

Can you please share what makes Sollum unique in the market? Why your customers choose Sollum?

Tremblay: Sollum does not only manufacture its fully dynamic grow lights, we developed the cloud platform that makes our solution so unique. Our solution is the only fully dynamic horticultural solution on the market. This means that light output (spectra and intensity) is 100% programmable and re-programmable as needed; that it dims automatically in real time based on ambient light readings; and enables multi-zone light management to grow multiple crops simultaneously, each with their own custom light recipe. Additionally, Sollum offers more comprehensive support services than other grow light companies by working directly with producers. Our team of engineers, technicians and agronomists, with our chief horticultural specialist, offer ongoing expert advice and assistance from planting to harvest, in order to ensure that producers get the most out of their lighting solution.

http://www.lightnowblog.com/2023/05/interview-kassim-tremblay-v-p-of-business-development-at-sollum

There is a lot of unknown in greenhouse strawberries as most growers are still working out exactly how to manage the greenhouse environment for this novel crop. Fully dynamic LED lighting allows growers to adapt their light parameters, rather than be restricted by their lights.

Studies are showing that cultivars have variable responses to lighting conditions; what works for Albion may not work for Harmony, for example.

One thing the research team at Sollum has learned is that that the first stretch of stems and flowering clusters is critical for ensuring proper airflow in the canopy, thereby reducing the proliferation of fungal pathogens, and facilitating scouting. With far-red light, greenhouse growers can boost stem elongation early on, then remove far-red once adequate stretching is achieved. Alternatively, growers can also keep far-red on during the winter months when low ambient light levels would otherwise limit flowering.

Another crucial component to increasing production in the new greenhouse will be supplemental lighting. Controlled by quantum sensors to measure photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), the upgraded lighting system will replace City Roots’ high pressure sodium fixtures, most of which are around 400 watts, with 680-watt LED lights which produce three times the amount of lumens (which measure light intensity) and micromoles (which count photons).

Right now, “we just turn lights on and off if we’ve got bad weather,” Eric McClam said. “They don’t turn on at night unless we keep them on. We’re not as efficient as we might be with the grow lights here. Grow lights are going to be adding full-spectrum light to the leafy greens to allow for them to grow more rapidly and to photosynthesize more.”

Rose Séguin’s job as an agronomist at Canada-based light manufacturer Sollum Technologies is to introduce greenhouse growers to such technological benefits.

https://organicgrower.info/article/growth-spurt-new-state-of-the-art-greenhouse-to-power-microgreen