All My Hippeastrum Seedlings Were Devoured!
Josh Young (Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:05:23 PST)

Arnold,

What would you find to be suffecient for seedlings, should I switch to a 16
hours on 8 hours off?

Thanks for the advice :)
Josh

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From: "arnold140@verizon.net" <arnold140@verizon.net>
To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Sun, November 7, 2010 2:00:30 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] All My Hippeastrum Seedlings Were Devoured!

Josh:

Two things that come to mind with 24 hour light are:

The plants are pushed for growth at the expense of developing root and bulb
mass.  Something like a nursery that pushes fertilizer to get growth at the
expense of having a plant with a balanced root to stem ratio.

Plants respire or grow at night  ( I think ) and use the energy produced during
daylight hours to manufacture tissue.

Arnold