The pace of packaged LED and solid-state lighting (SSL) product announcements has certainly escalated of late, coincident with the more widespread usage of the technology in greenhouses and vertical, urban farms. Cree began the summer announcing its Photo Red packaged LED for horticultural applications and now just four months later has said that performance has increased by 21% in both the new XLamp XQ-E and XP-E High Efficiency (HE) LEDs. The improvement will enable horticultural lighting manufacturers to reduce the size of luminaires and/or cut system cost.