even if you go realy low light, most fast growing types of (stem) plants will react to it and you will force them to make longer internodes. Fast growing plants react to a minimum of light, i first noticed this with a simple blooming plant in the house. It didnt realy want to bloom, it was growing and blooming at the same time in a strange form shooting long internodes between the flowers. After a while i noticed the powercord whit such a multiconnector that was near the plant had a lit red glowing switch on it. And that was the culprit and lit the plant at night, did put a piece of tape over it and the plant stoped growing and started fully blooming as should.
You need sufficient light intensity to reach <"light compensation point">, if you don't then it doesn't matter how long you run the lights for, the plants won't be able to grow.
Same for me, I have my tanks on a 12 hour day, all with a covering of floaters.
i'm only telling my own experiences, i don't run a lab and i am only a very anthousiast gardener. Im dutch which i cant help and what goes around comes around i hear and see... No body cares and if you are smart nobody sees . I dont want to be mysterious and call the baby by its name. I once got curious with all the stories and once did put some nono plants in my greenhous, Goerge Washington went president with it so why not. These plants bloom best at point 12 hours light, very compact and dense, actualy kind a pretty. Unless you put the tiniest light next to them at night and they start to grow again.
(Beer) Can give you an effect like this.. And this is real time video, no fidlling around with any software.That is slightly different, light levels below the light compensation point can have all sorts of effects on cell extension and initiating flowering etc.
nice reads again. In what i've experienced and observed by chance i just have a hard time to believe that the compensation point is the same for each plant on this planet. I've observed some plants initiat growth with very low light input. That low that it is hard to believe it would have any effect, but it did. There are so many differnt plants with their own characteristics in growth and behaviour in different light conditions.Yes, some plants will have a very low light compensation point. It is because we won't have experimentally defined PAR values that you have to guess which plants need the least light, and why I wrote this earlier in the thread.
That is actually to do with the way that we perceive light intensity. Daylight is much, much brighter than any aquarium light.
I like this one, I was going to comment on it in the <"Show me your Orchid"> thread.
indeed a very wonderfull plant.. Nice medical potential too.. Funny is to see how it reacts to light.. The terrarium is lit, but also stands under such a daylight thing in the roof with milky glass (forgot how you call that thing) But there is something in the daylight what the lamp above it doesn't have. When evening falls the plant goes to sleep and hangs its leaves down even when the lamp is still on. And in the morning when the lamp above already is on, it doesn''t react and stays dorment. The leaves spread only when the tiniest bit of first morning daylight comes in.
would be fun to have. But not for $350.
