![]() ![]() International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (CC BY-NC) The only way to build up enough food to balance the cost is for those leaves to get enough sunlight to make food. To get reproductive growth, you want to have lots of vegetative growth.īlooming can be very costly to the plant. Reproductive is the growth of flowers, fruits and seeds. Vegetative is the growth of the roots, stems and leaves. There are two types of growth on a plant: Vegetative and reproductive. It kind of slows the plant down and helps the plant regulate so it doesn't grow too fast. Red light really helps produce vegetative growth. Some grow lights have red or blue light options and most of the light that a plant uses is in the red and blue spectrum. Use a timer … the average is 12 hours on and 12 hours off. ![]() Make sure the grow light is close enough to the plant. But if you can't get enough from the sun, there's been a lot of advancements with grow lights, and they do deliver good light to the plant. There isn't any replacement for sunlight it is the best for a plant. Our air gets very dry in the upper Midwest, and the winter is a lot different from summertime, when the air is saturated with humidity. Secondly, grouping plants together helps increase the humidity around the plants so they benefit from each other by way of the water vapor they release. One advantage to grouping plants is it's a great visual with plants from the floor to as high as the ceiling. ![]() Richards (CC BY-SA 2.0) Group your plants ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |