Timeline for What food crops grow well in a shady area?
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| Dec 19, 2016 at 0:23 | comment | added | stormy | The ability is FINDING the light and if successful, will produce more seed. Tomatoes although they are vines (indeterminate) will only produce the best and largest crops if the plants don't have to expend energy looking for energy. All plants have a high temperature threshold as well as a low temperature threshold. On average, most plants will shut their food making chlorophyll factories down around 90 degrees F. | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 0:22 | comment | added | stormy | Super dialog guys! I go back to the fact that fruit/seed/leaves/trunks/ are all made by sunlight energy. There are plants that have found niches in shade so they don't have to compete but there are no plants that reproduce by seed that prefer shade to be more vigorous and produce more seed or even vegetative growth. A vine's tool to survive is the ability to GO FIND LIGHT. | |
| Dec 19, 2016 at 0:04 | comment | added | davidgo | @GiacomoCatenazzi What you say about tomatos does not make much sense to me - I know for sure that for eggplants, [same family, even ones grafted onto tomato root stock] 1% more light = 1% more growth - I wonder if the issue is one of mid-day heat in hot areas - I understand that nightshades don't like temperatures above 35c or so. | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 7:07 | comment | added | Giacomo Catenazzi | For temperature, yes you are right, but U.S. temperatures are in any case strange for us. It is very continental, so if temperatures are around 30°C (86°F), I'll expect they will not go down to 10°C (50°F) or maybe neither 20°C (68°F). But I don't know all climate of Asia. | |
| Dec 13, 2016 at 7:00 | comment | added | Giacomo Catenazzi | I'm not kidding. Think about the plant, it is a vine, so it climbs under the trees (or I expect something like this, on natural environment). On my region, the tomato greenhouse are covered in summer, because temperature (still greenhouse) but shadows seems not to give much problems (still not dark shadow). For high temperature I trust you, I'm not so an expert. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 22:01 | comment | added | stormy | Giacomo, you are kidding about tomatoes growing better in shade, yes??? I was simply giving him the facts about growing in the shade beneath a large tree. Blueberries and strawberries...do well in a bit of shade. Still have to have sun. That was my point. Plants need light with which to make fruit/seed, heat is nice if it isn't over 90 degrees F. I was totally trying to help see that planting vegies under established trees is just not going to work. So I gave him the pots, controlled soils, sun, water, drainage...that look nice as well. Isn't 30 degrees C the same as 86 degrees F? | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 13:47 | comment | added | Giacomo Catenazzi | maybe I misunderstood the question, but I think you are off the question. On hot-dry place, I don't think blueberries and strawberries are the most useful plants. And BTW the tomatoes grow (better) in shadow, but I'm not sure what kind of shadows we are discussing in this question. | |
| Dec 12, 2016 at 2:10 | history | answered | stormy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |