{"id":9202,"date":"2017-03-19T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T09:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9202"},"modified":"2017-03-10T10:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T10:28:25","slug":"growing-towards-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/growing-easy-plants\/growing-towards-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Towards the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Teasel seedheads by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/5207607574\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4131\/5207607574_6cbd9fb763.jpg\" alt=\"Teasel seedheads\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Light Affecting Growth<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some plants do not require high levels of light for growth, because they are adapted to low light conditions (such as jungle and forest plants).<\/li>\n<li>Plants left in the dark will grow taller than plants in lighted conditions\u00c2\u00a0 but they will also be yellower and more spindly.<\/li>\n<li>Increased height is often a response to low light levels &#8211; the plant is trying to grow over anything that may be blocking the light, and will grow towards any source of light.<\/li>\n<li>Etiolation is an extreme form of photosynthesis, and it occurs when you keep a plant in the dark too long.<\/li>\n<li>When a plant is blown down, like this teasel, its efforts to regrow will produce distorted stems or branches.<\/li>\n<li>Plants on a windowsill may grow only one one side, towards the light, unless turned frequently. (I must turn my pelargoniums again this afternoon).<\/li>\n<li>Seedlings need good, even light as a spindly plant many not recover. Beware sun through a window can burn seedlings.<\/li>\n<li>Too little light and leaves may brown and drop off.<\/li>\n<li>Blue daylight bulbs are the best if natural light is unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details read <a href=\"http:\/\/www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk\/qanda_physical.htm\">science for schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"_Tgc\"><b>Etiolation<\/b> is a process in flowering plants grown in partial or complete absence of light. It is characterized by long, weak stems; smaller leaves and often pale yellow coloring.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blanching<\/strong> is the exclusion of light to prevent greening up of Celery Leeks and other plants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light affects growth and plants growing towards the direction of the  light can damage or create poor looking plants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[233],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing-easy-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}