Kevin Espiritu

You know, we sort of cherry-picked them from around the world in all these different environments where they adapted to.

Just get that corn, baby.

Just grow that corn, you know?

We might need to go into GMO.

All right.

So if you think about that, like take that spinach.

I don't know where it's endemic to, but regardless, wherever it evolved, it was low in the canopy.

It was low in the entire sort of hierarchy of the plants around it, right?

So it was basically fighting for photons to photosynthesize with.

Whereas a nice tall banana plant or something like that that's growing in the tropics, it has no problem with that.

So of course it can tolerate more.

And what ends up happening with a shade plant that gets too much sun, if you put it in the wrong spot, is what once was good, the light, actually starts producing more.

I forgot what it is in the plant, but basically it starts producing too much of a certain compound that starts damaging the plant's ability to photosynthesize.

So basically too much of a good thing.

I mean, I wouldn't go as far to make a bold claim to say like all of them would do better under normal sunlight.

But I kind of do think that's the case because there are studies that prove not only do plants use far red, so like above the 700 nanometer range.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, you're right.

The first sort of LEDs that came out back when I was growing cucumbers, Chuck, back in my old place, they came out and they were called like blurple lights, blue, purple, red, because basically...

whoever was designing them back then was like, well, plants mostly use light between 400 and 700 nanometers, kind of like the visible spectrum.

So they'll use blue light for vegetative growth.