Just wanted to share this Strawberry Amnesia from Dinafem. Pic taken under 365nm UV lighting. Anybody know what is causing this reaction? Anthocyanins? Chlorophyll?
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Just wanted to share this Strawberry Amnesia from Dinafem. Pic taken under 365nm UV lighting. Anybody know what is causing this reaction? Anthocyanins? Chlorophyll?
Bad lighting would cause that. Doesn’t look normal. Maybe some cored lights were used.
Colored
It is definitely colored light. The pic was taken under 365nm filtered uv light. The red is some sort of uv florecense.
From what I understand in my limited fashion, some insects see in the UV range, which helps them detect flowers. If this is a UV picture, you might be seeing what a pollinator sees.
“Insects, on the other hand, perceive wavelengths of from 650 to 300 nanometers, including the ultraviolet range of the spectrum. What this means is that most insects don’t see well in the yellow, orange and red portion of the spectrum but see ultraviolet very well.” – from Purdue University.
https://www.asec.purdue.edu/natural_resources/4-H,NR,Projects/Projects/entomology/TurpinArticles/Insects%20See%20the%20Light.pdf
Interesting thought. Not sure how it would look to an insect. The bud in the pic is illuminated with UV and fluorecing red, not purely reflecting UV. Something in the plant is absorbing the uv and re-emmiting red.
Just found an answer. It sound like it’s chlorophyll florecense. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyll_fluorescence
I don’t quite understand all the jargon, but it sounds like i might be able to check relative plant health with my uv light. Anybody able to simplify this concept??