The subject invention concerns a process for enhancing flower induction in strawberry plants by artificial means. In one embodiment, scheduling of requests within threads and scheduling of initiator device access is performed wherein requests are only reordered between threads. The choke valve moves in response to a solenoid actuator. The backlight assembly may include one or more specular reflectors and one or more other optical elements to ensure that the light that exits the light chamber has the desired spatial uniformity, polarization, color, andor angular distribution. The backup light source provides a light that allows a message to be projected indicating the primary light source has failed. The method comprises drawing power from an inline power source and transferring, by the powered device subsystem, a portion of the power that is not consumed by the powered device subsystem to one or more connected powered devices.