Photoperiod Blackout and Night Interruption

Computes the uninterrupted dark period a blackout schedule produces, checks it against the crop's critical period.

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Computes the uninterrupted dark period a blackout schedule produces, checks it against the crop's critical period, and prices the light given up. A night interruption at 2 micromol contributes 0.12% of the light budget for a complete reversal of flowering, which is also the warning about stray light.

the uninterrupted dark period from the pull and open times, against the crop's critical dark period; DLI at each photoperiod = PPFD x hours x 3,600 / 1,000,000.

Short-day crops generally need 12 to 13 hours of uninterrupted darkness. The crop's own published critical photoperiod and the cultivar's response group govern.

Public arithmetic; critical photoperiods are published per crop and cultivar.

Estimate. AHJ and licensed professional govern.

Field names used by the API: blackout_pull_hour, blackout_open_hour, critical_dark_hours, long_photoperiod_hours, short_photoperiod_hours, ppfd_umol_m2_s, interruption_hours, interruption_ppfd_umol_m2_s, dark_hours, light_hours, dark_margin_hours, long_dli, short_dli, dli_given_up, dli_given_up_pct, interruption_dli, interruption_share_of_long_pct

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