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Doug Dawson

Doug Dawson

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twentyeight.threefive said:
You still can't explain what they do in their dark period. :roll:
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Wow, so you are to lazy to click a link and just want me to type it all out for you? Somehow my typed words are easier for you than that on another page? Fine, here you go.

Photosynthesis involves three main elements: light energy, water and carbon dioxide. Plants use sunlight to metabolize carbon dioxide in the environment and the water they take up from the soil. In doing so, they essentially produce carbon and oxygen compounds. They then use the carbon as energy to grow and release oxygen back into the atmosphere.

Whereas photosynthesis breaks down the compounds in water and carbon dioxide, respiration essentially rebuilds them. Rather than separating carbon molecules from water and carbon dioxide, plants will respire to recreate these compounds from the carbon they have stored from photosynthesis and the oxygen in the air.

Most plants automatically store the energy they produce during the day in order to get through the night. Most plants store this energy as starch. They then gradually metabolize this energy during the night, before producing more of it once the next day begins. Hence, the night is actually a really important time for plants, as it is when they naturally metabolize the energy they’ve worked so hard to create during the day.
 
Lastmanstandin31

Lastmanstandin31

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Doug Dawson said:
Wow, so you are to lazy to click a link and just want me to type it all out for you? Somehow my typed words are easier for you than that on another page? Fine, here you go.

Photosynthesis involves three main elements: light energy, water and carbon dioxide. Plants use sunlight to metabolize carbon dioxide in the environment and the water they take up from the soil. In doing so, they essentially produce carbon and oxygen compounds. They then use the carbon as energy to grow and release oxygen back into the atmosphere.

Whereas photosynthesis breaks down the compounds in water and carbon dioxide, respiration essentially rebuilds them. Rather than separating carbon molecules from water and carbon dioxide, plants will respire to recreate these compounds from the carbon they have stored from photosynthesis and the oxygen in the air.

Most plants automatically store the energy they produce during the day in order to get through the night. Most plants store this energy as starch. They then gradually metabolize this energy during the night, before producing more of it once the next day begins. Hence, the night is actually a really important time for plants, as it is when they naturally metabolize the energy they’ve worked so hard to create during the day.
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You know damn well you cut and pasted that shit!!
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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Doug Dawson said:
Wow, so you are to lazy to click a link and just want me to type it all out for you? Somehow my typed words are easier for you than that on another page? Fine, here you go.

Photosynthesis involves three main elements: light energy, water and carbon dioxide. Plants use sunlight to metabolize carbon dioxide in the environment and the water they take up from the soil. In doing so, they essentially produce carbon and oxygen compounds. They then use the carbon as energy to grow and release oxygen back into the atmosphere.

Whereas photosynthesis breaks down the compounds in water and carbon dioxide, respiration essentially rebuilds them. Rather than separating carbon molecules from water and carbon dioxide, plants will respire to recreate these compounds from the carbon they have stored from photosynthesis and the oxygen in the air.

Most plants automatically store the energy they produce during the day in order to get through the night. Most plants store this energy as starch. They then gradually metabolize this energy during the night, before producing more of it once the next day begins. Hence, the night is actually a really important time for plants, as it is when they naturally metabolize the energy they’ve worked so hard to create during the day.
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It has nothing to do with you copy and pasting an article you found online. It has to do with you telling me why plants need a dark period. Also the article you linked never stated what you claim, so I'm confused and asked you to explain it. No reason to call me lazy, I read it.

"Because they do stuff in the dark period", is equal to I don't know really know.

Doug Dawson said:
"Need" , no it doesn't. Could use, yes.
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What is it specifically that the plant "could use" during that dark period? Why is it healthier for the plant? Maybe that is a better phrased question.

The best I could make of your copy and pasted article is that plants respire during the night and that's why it's important. Is that why it's important?
 
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twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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Lastmanstandin31 said:
Why don't you read the article he posted and do a little research? Why does he need to take his time and explain anything to you when he has already taken the time to post the link for you? You sound like a dick hole who is just looking for conflict on a post where people are trying to help people
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Again, I did read the article. I should have rephrased my last comment as "You still haven't told me what plants do in their dark period that is required."

I'm not looking for conflict I'm looking for an explanation. Copy and pasting an article that doesn't answer my question.
 
Doug Dawson

Doug Dawson

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twentyeight.threefive said:
It has nothing to do with you copy and pasting an article you found online. It has to do with you telling me why plants need a dark period. Also the article you linked never stated what you claim, so I'm confused and asked you to explain it. No reason to call me lazy, I read it.

"Because they do stuff in the dark period", is equal to I don't know really know.



What is it specifically that the plant "could use" during that dark period? Why is it healthier for the plant? Maybe that is a better phrased question.

The best I could make of your copy and pasted article is that plants respire during the night and that's why it's important. Is that why it's important?
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Plants respire during the dark but it is not dark specific, they also respire during the day. Giving them a dark period and allowing them to metabolize the starches they stored is how they are wired. IMO giving them the chance to do this creates a healthier plant as it creates these starches, uses them and than creates them again. It is how nature meant it and seems like a workout for the plant as it goes through it's natural process. Can you get away with not doing it, sure you can. This debate has been had so many times by countless people. Some argue that it means nothing. Others have noted that the only difference is in your energy savings and that the extra light has no real benefit to yield. Now I could be off base in my thinking that allowing a plant to go through it's natural processes makes it a healthier plant. It's just how I feel about it, those who disagree can do as they see fit.
 
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