Now I see the happiness of nurturing the happy jungle, it is no doubt addictive when knowing the end result is going to be awesome!
The lighting distance does require knowledge on how much luminance and heat can be generated from the light panels. Thus having a property measuring tool might come in handy. Why not consider using cell phones sensors?
Check out "Lux Light Meter Pro"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doggoapps.luxlight
I personally have not tried it, but might be a good tool for you to to document it for future reference. Again, numbers are numbers, it's about experience when come to planting. It will be even better with the numbers to support.
Side note, this shot you look like a power lifter 🤣
Hey @davidke20,
I didn't know about this app but I think it's awesome and I'm going to try it. Thank you for the resource! It will be interesting to see how accurate it is and should be a good baseline app to learn some new things.
It would make an interesting post to share screenshots of the app readings and what not, other gardeners on the blockchain could greatly benefit from this thing too. I hope it functions as great as it looks! :D
lol.. it must be all those photosynthetic photon's blasting down on my shoulders. 🤣
Thank you for the kind words my friend :)
Data collected from these kind of 3rd party app may not be accurate. Many more external and internal variable can affect the numbers, from the type of sensor, the microchip that controls the sensor, the software written to collect data from sensor, are not specifically designed to collect lux data.
That being said, the same environment with same setting, if you use a different phone, there's a chance you will get different reading caused by different polarised sheet being used to collect lights in each individual phone sensor.
However, it can still be very useful since the data only applicable to you, and you alone are the one knows how to setup your own planting facilities. And agree to having a recorded data as baseline reference. May be useful for others if they know how to start somewhere.