for a botany scientist?

Question

A plants dies after flowering and only lives for one season.
i have noticed that when the clouds block the sun for a few weeks, but not all the sun.

they seem to stop growing but still healthy until it gets full sunlight and then begins to grow again.

? can a plant be held from flowering by puting it under the exact light that is produced when light goes through wet clouds that do not rain for 2weeks for one year without it producing it flower ?

Answer 1

You ask a complicated question, but the simple answer is no. First it would be hard to produce that exact light, but that aside, it is a plant's purpose to reproduce it's self. So they will usually find a way to flower under most conditions. Photoperiodism in
plants is where a plant requires a certain day length to flower. Plants can be maintained in the vegetative state by controlling the day length of these plants. But it requires total darkness to maintain this day and night length. Darkness caused by clouds could not keep the plants in the vegetative state. It may retard their growth but they would still flower.