Can You Give a Plant TOO MUCH Light

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Is there such a thing as giving your plants too of a good thing? Actually, yes. Plants teach us many lessons, one of which is - everything in moderation! Connect With Susan Mulvihill: Susan Mulvihill is the author of the new book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook and The Vegetable Garden Pest Handbook. Susan has been a Master Gardener for over 20 years and is the Sunday garden columnist for The Spokesman-Review newspaper in Spokane, Washington. She and her husband, Bill, garden in raised beds. Her mission has been to teach everyone how to grow their own food, to respect nature by avoiding the use of chemicals, and encourages everyone to plant a diverse landscape to attract a wide variety of beneficial insects. Facebook Instagram YouTube Website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is it possible to give a plant too much light?
0:15.2	I think most of us gardeners have certainly made the error of giving our plants too little
0:19.0	light, whether it be starting seedlings and etc.
0:21.9	to stretch out or just placing a plant in the wrong spot, but it is certainly possible
0:26.6	to do the exact opposite and still run into problems.
0:29.8	So we have Susan Mothel back on the show.
0:32.1	Her new book, The Vegetable Garden Problem Solver Handbook, is out.
0:36.3	You can check it out in the podcast description, but Susan, I think this is a problem that
0:40.3	most people wouldn't imagine they would have to worry about is giving a plant too much light,
0:44.2	yeah?
0:45.2	Exactly.
0:46.2	I mean, you think that's exactly what it needs in order to grow well.
0:50.2	And so there are two problems that can happen when you give a plant too much light.
0:56.5	One has to do with how it affects the foliage, and that's called leaf scorch.
1:01.4	And the other is what affects the fruits, and that's called sunscaled.
1:07.1	So this is an abiotic disorder.
1:10.6	We talked about that yesterday, but it's a disorder that occurs usually from something
1:16.4	we did or didn't do as gardeners, but it can also be from certain types of environmental
1:22.4	stresses.
1:23.9	But as far as sunburn goes or leaf scorch, the main reason that occurs is when you've
1:31.4	started seedlings indoors, and you think, hey, it's time to put them out in the garden,
1:36.7	and you just plant them outside.
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