Monday, November 2, 2009

02.11.09

the avocado's leaves have been maturing nicely.

avo plant, oct 29th


plants perceive light as a ratio of red to far red light frequencies. far red is what stimulates a plant to grow taller, while the red makes a plant grow fuller. both are important. sunlight gives a hefty range that is tough to match while growing a plant indoors. incandescent light gives primarily far red while fluorescent is rich in red. combining these types of light can make for an adequately happy indoor plant.

i am going to try to up the avo's intake of fluorescent light.


avo plant with wine for scale, nov 2nd



this afternoon i decided to attack apical dominance.
the story of the pinch:








severed apical meristem

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