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Post by sherkas on Dec 2, 2008 19:18:30 GMT -5
I would say yes partly because my lights are 8 inches above the pots of my plants, so rosette plants are about 7ish inches away, the capes and other plants are 5ish away and every plant is loving it so far. The tallest plant I have atm is a drosera filiformis and ive noticed a trend. It shoots up its leafs and then it seems once they reached max height (2-3 inches below the lights) they started to die off. I thought this was just from shipping stress as its newly acquired. I today noticed a new trend in it. Several of the leafs are not unfolding the full distance and are showing good signs of color. Has the filiformis learned its max height? Heres a picture to illustrate. The purple circles show the leafs which are very red and seem to have stopped unfolding at a certain height. The blue circle shows the typical behavior where it unravels completely and then dies off afterwords. So im assuming its kinda learned its max height because of the color... the curls to my knowledge havent gone any taller or unraveled in a few days but they are showing huge red color. This is also a filiformis (Red) variety. What are you guys comments?
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Post by jonnybee7 on Dec 2, 2008 20:25:42 GMT -5
I would say they are burning up from growing too close to the lights. My plants generally grow right onto the bulb if I don't stop them, and then the part that hits the bulb dies off. So that would be "No, plants do not learn the max height".
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Post by blokeman on Jan 25, 2009 4:45:38 GMT -5
i second that jonnybee7, my binata made it all the way to my t5's and zap, like a mosquito, burned to a crisp! that'll teach it not to act like a moth. same for the flowers, they want to go to the light source, i have to use tape that i place on the sides of my terra so the flowers don't get burned. they may be thriving, but they aren't smart.
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