Will security night light affect plants?

by j mayes
(calvert city,ky)

ive got a bed with nothing but pea gravel in it. i was thinking about turning this into a garden. im thinking the weed growth will be minium. but the bed sits by a security light that comes on at night. will the light mess with the flowering of the plants?

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Will security night light affect plants?

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Sep 06, 2010

Night lighting affecting plants
by: Megan

Yes 24 hour light will be most confusing for plants. But there are lots of ifs and buts, such as temperature and if there is any dusk and dawn lower lighting. Light is essential for most plants to grow, so the more light, the more growth? Yes, often, and in places like Alaska where they have a few months of almost continuous light, they produce huge vegetables of some varieties that don't need a long growing season and high temps.

I don't have specific answer to your question that would cover all plants, and I suggest you give your garden a go. There would be lots of flowering plants and veggies that would love all the light, but my guess is that they would need to be annuals. Any perennial or bi-annual plants would need day/night and summer/winter day lengths to follow their normal cycles or growing, flowering, setting seed, dormancy or resting and then new growth again.

Let us know the results of your spotlight garden.

Mar 06, 2011

No
by: Andy

I think no. If you look at seedlings on a windowsill, lights in the house make no difference at all to which way they grow. If you put seedlings in a dark room with lights on they would fail. Naughty drug plant growers use specialised lamps to grow their plants. I would say that the light emitted by your light wouldn't even be recognised by a plant as light....

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