We will turn now to the cultivation of plants inside homes or offices.
Many people enjoy being surrounded by plants at work, at home or while dining.
But plants indoors have requirements which must be fulfilled in order for them to thrive, since they have to adapt now to a different environment from the one they originally developed in. Light intensities comfortable for people to live and work in are insufficient for many species of plants. If plants do not receive sufficient light for manufacturing carbohydates for respiration they will eventually die. Also, many physiological processes are regulated by light, as you may remember. Indoors, where the temperature is constant, they may not have this metabolic brake and plants may deplete their carbohydrate reserves faster, slowing growth.