You forgot the sliding try from 5 meters out.
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This sort of thing should’ve been happening years ago, Ch.9 acting like it’s some kind of new age technology.
Typical eastern suburbs latte sipping woke grass.
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Highly convenient that it’s been implemented after the end of the A-League season, just in time for the real Footy.
Watch them deem it to be too expensive to use over the summer months when the turf is ruined by the bazillion concerts that’ll be held there.
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Turf is purely required to grow in a vegetative state so it’s quite odd that they’re using blurple lights when blurple lights mostly emits far red on the spectrum which is used in the flowering cycle of plants. It’s also well proven that full spectrum lights are far superior. Seems like a bit of a cock up to me.
I’ll be interested to keep an eye on the pitch week to week.
Its also winter
No idea but would this mean that they’re trying to get the turf to regenerate rather than just grow?
The light spectrum is broken up in to colours; red, orange, yellow, green, violet, indigo and blue. Plants have different stages of their life cycle; germination, vegetative and flowering/fruiting.
Plants have different light colour requirements in different stages of their life cycle. All colours are used during a plants growth but specifically during flowering or fruiting they absorb the deep and far reds in the spectrum. During germination and vegetative stages they mostly require blue light.
In regenerating the turf, they want the turf to be absorbing blue light to maximise the vegetative growth (leaves and roots growth)
Those pink or blurple lights are more suited to a tomato or rose farm where you are fruiting and flowering ratherthan a lettuce or turf farm where you want leaf growth.
Not saying they wont work but it’s not in the slightest way the correct light choice for results or even effeciency. Thats before you even consider the fact that turf just wont grow below 15c no matter how much light you give it
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Surely the people paid to grow the grass know what they are doing ?
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No it’s more likely that random people know better, just like how we know more than managers about tactics and player signings.
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I turned my back garden from something resembling an desert spinnifax landscape into a half-decent lawn, without the use of fancy lights.
I am thus a qualified groundskeeper.
I was also in the OR with my wife when she gave birth to my children, keeping the mood light and airy with my fantastic sense of humour.
Thus, I am a midwife.
I have applied a band-aid to a cut, run a burn under cold water and correctly diagnosed a lergy as COVID. I am thus a highly experienced doctor, and trauma surgeon.
I have successfully boiled water, broken eggs to make an scrambled omlette looking thingi, and successfully stirred a pot. Gordan Ramsay ain’t got nothin’ on my culinary skills.
I have successfully driven a motor vehicle around Mount Panorama (without crashing!), making me a skilled racing car driver. I don’t want the hype of Senna.
I once trapped a football under my foot and passed it to a team mate. I am am a footballing mastergod.
The point is, I am far more experienced and knowledgable than these so called paid experts.
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Surely the people paid to run the country know what theyre doing too.
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The purple lights are a mixture of red lights and blue lights…
I’d vote for them before I voted for you - in growing grass and running the country!
I’m not asking for your vote hero. I’m more than qualified to grow turf though.
To add artificial light to the surface, the staff are obviously looking for the extra 10%. If you were going to spend money looking for the extra 10%, heat to the root zone would be the first place then lights with a concentration on high levels of blue would be second. Red light is still important to the turf growth and the turf is receiving that and a full spectrum of light from the sun.
Someone can’t take a joke, crikey, hero.
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