The gas lantern routine

YardDog35;1234944 said:

Sana;1232413 said:

I need to set something right.
The dark reaction (reduction of CO2 to glucose) isn't restricted to the dark and happens in daylight also. So the 24/0 thing can fit but still refusing to believe that a plant doesn't need darktime in veg .

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Here you go Sana, I cut a pasted this from another thread here on 420. This is from The Butcher.




"So heres some facts to help all of figure this one out.

1) Plants do need sleep
2) Evolutions has changed the structure of plants, just as it done to human organisms. ( Darwin)
3) Plants have developed a time-keeping mechanism, called a "Circadian Clock".
4) Circadian Clock helps to control a plants sensitivity to a hormone called auxin.
5) Auxins is a plant hormone often called phytohormone. Auxins play a vital role in alignment of many growth and behavioral processes in the structuring of a plant life cycle.
5) Plants weather they have light and or dark periods, shut down. Plant may appear to be awake, however their Circadian Clock does control Auxins, which are in place to help to ensure that plants do have a structured sleep period. This along with helping the plant to adjust to the changes of said plants environment.

Sorry to burst everyones bubbles, but nothing changes unless you set the plant into bloom. Plants will sleep in the dark or light. Their growth pattern does not change, a plant can only produce so much foliage before needing to shut down and re-energize. So even at a 24/0, 20/4, 18/6, 16/8 light schedule, the plant will shut down and start up again once he/she is ready to wake back up. Again, thats' once said plant has set a schedule for itself to survive. The only real time that we control a plant is when we feed or change the life cycle from Vegetative to Bloom. Outside of that all plants are living, they eat, breathe and grow at their own pace, not ours."

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