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Many people that houseplants being plants need light and soil for their growth. Well even though this is to a large extent is correct, techniques have emerged which allow you to grow houseplants without sufficient soil. Use of conventional soil based planting solutions is soon to be a thing of the past. Today's hydro culture is fast becoming the preferred choice of people for growing houseplants as it is makes the experience of having houseplants inside your house, less messy and easier to maintain.
Now, that we know that houseplants can do without soil, the next thing we need to do is to maintain our house plants so that they develop into beautiful creations and not dull, dead looking heaps of weeds! The main thing to take care about, in the proper growth of houseplants is to look at the factors affecting its growth. The critical ones are the intensity and duration of sunlight that the plant receives, temperature of the place where the plant is kept and temperature of the plant itself, and the humidity of the location.
We can determine how much lighting our houseplants need by knowing about the sunlight light that our houseplants get. This could depend on the location of the room or the placing of the plant in the room. For example the plant can be placed in a well lit room but if it is getting a shade from another household article like a cupboard or coffee table then this improper placing could lead to a hindrance in the growth of the plant, making it dull and unattractive.
There are some places which are advised for placing of plants in your house:
- Bright light: A location in the house where there is a bright light will mostly be southern or western part of the house with an opening or a window. This place is ideal for houseplants as they would receive nice bright sunlight all day long without any hindrance. Again, care is advised in determining the position of the plant in the room; watch out for shadows from any household furniture etc. on the plant.
- Indirect Light: This type of light generally comes from an eastern facing opening or interior part of a southern or western facing room.
- Low light: Low lighting situations are generally a found in north facing rooms. Most rooms in the house suffer from a low light condition. Shadows casted on houseplants from furniture, trees etc also would also result in low light conditions for that plant. Particularly in these spaces, houseplants, the suffer most and would growth slowly. A common solution to this problem would be to use sources of artificial lightning like lamps for illumination.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y agoit depends on what type or kind of plant it is forexample a watermelon needs 7hrs of sunlight.Some plants need a control amount of sunlight and some need constant.
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∙ 12y agoOnly a tiny portion, approximately 0.023%, is actually used by green plants for photosynthesis.
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∙ 14y agodid you mean ''green colored plants''? If so,i am not really sure. if you meant those green bean plants,they need sunlight.
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∙ 14y agoplatypuses are mammals even though they do not have hair and have eggs not live baby's
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∙ 15y agoGreen plants need 75% of sunlight to be green plant.
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∙ 9y agohow much sunlight does a plant need
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∙ 14y ago100%
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What is chlorophy 2?
Chlorophyll refers to the green colouring matter that is found in plants. This is what is used together with sunlight and carbon dioxide for photosynthesis.
Ways that help green plants to get more sunlight?
Green plants get more sunlight in many various ways. Sunlight is obtained in a plant through the chlophylls. These are small pigments which capture light inside chloroplasts, organelles inside the plant. This is what makes the plant looks green. So to get more sunlight, plants have more areas that contain chloroplast. Although parts of a plant may look green, layers may not contain chloroplast, however different plants can adapt to having more chloroplast if they need more sunlight. Another major way is by having a larger surface area. This happens by having large leaves and being tall
How Does sunlight increase the growth rate of plants?
This question has many answers. If you want a more specific answer, ask a more specific question. If you want to know a general answer, plants used the light energy from sunlight to produce sugars in a process known as photosynthesis. Google photosynthesis for a plethora of information from the very basic to in depth and detailed molecular examinations of the process.
Why does many green plants survive in a world without mammals but mammals cant survive without green plants?
mammals cant survive without green plants , because that is their food and they live off of the plants. Green plant can live without mammals, because they can make their own food with photosynthesis.
What type of plants don't need sunlight?
Any amateur gardener knows plants need two things to survive: sunlight and water. But tweak a few genes and those basic requirements can diminish or even disappear. The first group-from Martek Biosciences Corporation and the Carnegie Institution of Washington-manipulated genes to wean a type of microalgae, called Phaeodactylum tricornutum, from the sun. To do so, they had to provide these single-celled aquatic plants with an alternative source of energy-which they did by inserting a gene encoding for a glucose transporter. They found that algae altered with the gene for a human glucose transporter grew in dark fermenters at densities 15 times that of sunlight-grown algae. In addition, these tiny plants-which are used in a number of dietary supplements-were less likely to become contaminated. The above is an excerpt from Scientific America.com The mushroom and other forms of fungi require no light source to grow. They actually prefer it that way.
What is chlorophy 2?
Chlorophyll refers to the green colouring matter that is found in plants. This is what is used together with sunlight and carbon dioxide for photosynthesis.
Ways that help green plants to get more sunlight?
Green plants get more sunlight in many various ways. Sunlight is obtained in a plant through the chlophylls. These are small pigments which capture light inside chloroplasts, organelles inside the plant. This is what makes the plant looks green. So to get more sunlight, plants have more areas that contain chloroplast. Although parts of a plant may look green, layers may not contain chloroplast, however different plants can adapt to having more chloroplast if they need more sunlight. Another major way is by having a larger surface area. This happens by having large leaves and being tall
Green structures found in many cells of plant leaves and stems?
They might be chloroplast, that helps the plants to make food when there is sunlight.
Why are green algae green?
They are single celled organisms, not like plants which have many cells. however green algae is a protist
Do many living things get food from other living things?
Green plants make food from sunlight. All animals get their food by eating plants (living things) or animals (also living things)
What is the importance of sunlight to plants?
Plants need the sun because sunlight is made up of electromagnetic radiation which is given off as energy as the sun burns through its stores of hydrogen many millions of miles away from Earth. The electromagnetic radiation that plants receive from the sunlight that reaches Earth and penetrates its atmosphere is the key ingredient in a process that is called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is important because it is the way in which plants derive their energy. By:Stephan Joseph
Why does the shallow ocean zone have many plants and animals?
it has so many plants because the plants can do photosynthesis. unlike in the deep ocean with no sunlight
What are non- green plants?
non green plants are simply plants that are not green in colour because of less quantity of chlorophyll in some species of plants. as chlorophyll has a green pigment and it plays a fairly big role in photosynthessis, these non green plants have a little and that is why they are not green. yet, they can make food from sunlight with that little chlorophyll that they have. another explanation is that the non-green leaves live on saprophytic nutrition. examples of such plants are: blue colorado spruce and japanese red maple.
Why are green plants important for living things?
Green plants are important because the great majority of many an ecosystem's primary producers are photosynthetic plants. Thus, green plants.
What does nature do to plants?
Many things it gives the plant water and sunlight for it to go through photosynthesis. It has many effects on plants.
How many regions are in a cave?
There are 3 regions, or zones, in a cave. 1. Entrance zone - Receives sunlight and has variable temperatures, has a few green plants and animal life. 2. Twilight zone - Receives little sunlight, very few plants (if any) and animals, temperatures are a little more consistent. 3. Dark zone - no sunlight. Consistent temperature of 56 degrees on average.
What are three characteristics of plants?
There are many different kinds of characteristics of plants. Plants are usually grown in dirt and use sunlight for food.
