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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.metalab.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Lights
  • Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 07:50:18 -0500


Thanks to you both, Bill and Ed - your advice is helpful.
Jill



> > I would say yes. The more light a plant has the better. The only
> >exception to this is plants that require darkness to flower, i.e.:
> >poinsettia.
>
>
> Plants actually have a need for darkness. It doesn't have to be 12 or even
8
> hours per night but certain physiological processes are dark-oriented. I
> think it would be fine to supplement natural light so that the plants have
> 14-16 hours of light per day. But I wouldn't run it more than that.
Besides,
> it costs something to run those things that long. You want something back
in
> return.
>
> Bill Shoemaker
> Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
> Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center
>
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  • Lights, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 04/13/2002
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Lights, Ed Clifford, 04/14/2002
    • Re: Lights, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 04/14/2002
    • Re: Lights, Ed Clifford, 04/14/2002
    • Re: Lights, Bill Shoemaker, 04/15/2002
    • Re: Lights, Jill Taylor Bussiere, 04/15/2002
    • lights, sora, 04/15/2002

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