Sentences with phrase «much sunlight plants»

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Hardening them off is as much for acclimating the plants to sunlight as to low temps and wind, so if you kept them in total shade while hardening them off, they could be getting too intense sun.

You can customize it to your yard, too, by telling it what kind of soils and plants are in certain areas and how much sunlight each gets.

You might think that plants grow according to how much nutrition, water and sunlight they are exposed to, but new research by Dr Nick Pullen and a team from the John Innes Centre, UK shows that the plant's own genetics may be the real limiting factor.

The plant immediately struck Muir (a distant relative of famed naturalist John Muir) as odd because plants need to maximize surface area to absorb as much sunlight as possible.

During the dry season, with no fog layer to reflect sunlight, the smaller cloud cover allows plants to receive much higher radiation, increasing evaporation and photosynthesis rates, another process missed by the GCMs.

While algae and other microscopic plants, which form the base of the marine food chain, are vital to a healthy ecosystem, too much can cause murky water, reduce sunlight and oxygen levels, and ultimately cause harm to marine life.

The smoke from vast fires started by bombs dropped on cities and industrial areas would envelop the planet and absorb so much sunlight that the earth's surface would get cold, dark and dry, killing plants worldwide and eliminating our food supply.

Now, engineers from Sandia National Laboratories are improving the efficiency of smaller plants, designing a new receiver that can absorb much more sunlight.

They both needed a plant stand so their plants could be placed in front of their bedroom windows and get some much needed sunlight!

A palm originating from Australia, this species is popular as an indoor plant and requires little sunlight (direct exposure and too much water tends to make the tips of its leaves turn brown).

Grow - at - home kits may not be quite as eye - catching, but they also offer greater flexibility for placement, especially if the area of the store dedicated to cat treats doesn't get much sunlight — or they can be merchandised with living plants for a comprehensive display that offers shoppers greater flexibility.

How much sunlight is absorbed by the corn plants needed to manufacture one joule's worth of ethanol, for example, compared to the amount of sunlight a solar panel needs to generate one joule of electricity?

Make much better use of sunlight directly and through the storage of energy in plants (that have evolved very efficient strategies of energy extraction over millenia and whose methods of energy extraction and storage we would do well to respect and emulate).

Reflecting too much sunlight would also rob plants of radiation needed for photosynthesis.

As far as CO2 fertilization, plants can only use so much CO2 (the limits of minerals, water, nitrates and sunlight tend to be more important for most plant ecosystems).

Most plants don't need much to survive: Just dirt, sunlight, and water — although that last one can really trip you up if you're a novice gardener, out of town, or just plain forgetful.

It doesn't look like much now, but when the plant is fully built out in 2014, long curved mirrors called parabolic troughs will focus sunlight on oil - filled tubes that transfer heat to steam generators.

Varying degrees of shade Knowing how much direct sunlight (if any) reaches your plants is key to matching plants to the site.

Make sure to take note of how much sunlight your spaces get before picking out flowers to plant.