RED LUX® is a Hi-Tech photo-selective with red photo-degrading pigment and high thermal film made and patented by Agriplast. Its high selectivity within a low photosynthetic activity region: it allows the reduction of the incoming energy with no change of the essential radiations to the photosynthetic activity. The screening capability due to the special pigment of RED LUX® allows a better control of the highest daily temperatures, thus reducing the peaks in the hottest hours of the daytime. For the same reason, such film reduces the risk of the fruits and leaves burning (BLACK SPOTS) and, especially, it gives better climatic conditions to the growth of the plants inside the greenhouse environment, increasing the immunology defences of the plants against the typical diseases found in the hot and humid areas. RED LUX®, according to its new version, is provided with a special additive UV-Stop ® which subtract the UV radiations from the solar spectrum, disorientating the vector-insects and therefore reducing their activity.
Note: the UV-Stop ® could influence the pollinating insects activity.
RED LUX® is made according the specific prescriptions issued by EN 13206.

With reference to the life according to EN 13206, RED LUX® is normally produced in the version RED LUX® 150 – Class B

SPECTRAL BANDS AND THEIR PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS UPON PLANTS

First Band: radiation with wavelength shorter than 280 nm (Ultraviolet C). The radiations in this region is highly toxic for plants and animals.
Second Band: radiation between 280 and 315 nm (Ultraviolet B). Radiation in this region is detrimental to most plants and animals. Such radiation is nearly absorbed by the ozone layer.
Third Band: radiation between 315 and 400 nm (Ultraviolet A). Radiation in this region has formative effects, internodes elongation is restricted and leaf thickness is increased.
Fourth Band: radiation between 400 and 519 nm (visible light). This is a region of strong absorption by chlorophyll and the yellow plant pigments with relatively strong photosynthetic activity. Important formative effects also occur.
Fifth Band: radiation between 510 and 610 nm (visible light). This is a spectral band region of low photosynthetic activity and weak influence ( it is just the band absorbed by the Red-Lux film).
Sixth Band: radiation between 610 and 700 nm (Visible light). This is the region of maximum absorption by chlorophyll and strong photosynthetic activity. It is also a region of strong photoperiodic activity by phytochrome system. This region is excited by the pigment of Red-Lux.
Seventh Band : radiation between 700 and 800 nm (Far Red Light). This region has very specific effects on elongation, germination and the photoperiodic response and it offsets many of the
effects of irradiation at 610 to 700 nm.
Eight Band : alla radiations with a wavelength longer than 800 nm. No specific effect of this radiations on plants is known. It may be assumed that this radiation is transformed to heat when absorbed by the plant.