Improper light intensity is a major cause for failing house plants. How much light your plants need depends on what type it is.
Lighting For Flowering Plants
- Moderate bright light is key to keeping flowering plants happy and healthy.
- If the light is poor, flowering plants flower less, develop spindly shoots, yellow leaves, poor color, and little or no growth.
- Avoid facing your plants towards direct sunlight. This causes the flowers to over heat and collapse.
- In an average lit room, try to keep flowering plants close to the windows.
- Fluorescent lights placed about one foot above the top of the plant can help improve growth.
Lighting For Foliage Plants
- It is trickier to gauge how much light is needed for foliage plants, as suitable light intensities can range from low to moderate and high.
- Generally, most foliage plants prefer daylight without the blast of direct sunlight, or sunlight diffused through a lightweight curtain.
- Very few foliage plants can live in low lit interiors.
- If you’re constantly shifting your plants about, these abrupt changes can be damaging, as plants can get acclimatized to a particular location. For example, if the leaves are growing towards the direction of the light in low lit areas, moving the plant will disrupt its orientation and absorption of light.
- Shift your plants gradually. To avoid one-sided growth, simply turn the pots once a week.
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