Ethylene makes fruit ripen which inhibits certain plants from maturing fully. All plants need a fitting place to call home. This place is called its environment. Everyone knows that plants need suitable climate, water, and sunlight for photosynthesis in their environment. The length of the periods of light a plant receives also affects its growth and flourishment.
Photosynthesis occurs using the suns energy to create the plants own energy.
Long-day plants blossom only during the long periods of sunlight. Short-day plants bloom when the dark period is long. There are other types called day-neutral which are not affected by the duration of light. All plants need different amounts of water. Some plants need lots of water, like the and when they grow in the wild they grow in the tropical regions of the Earth where there is an abundance of rain water.