Eli5 – How do indoor plants deal with not having seasons?

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I would think that most plants are acclimated to climates with seasons. Doesn’t the eternal spring/summer conditions interrupt some type of annual cycle?

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Depends on the plant, really. Some plants tell time by photoperiod. If they’re in sunlight, it doesn’t matter whether they’re indoors or out; they know when the seasons change. Others operate based on their own age, independent of the seasons. They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do, when they’re supposed to do it.

Plants that tell time by temperature might get confused, and not be able to go through their own flowering/seeding cycles as they’d expect to. But eventually, the stress of not flowering is going to push them into flower at unexpected times.

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