A grower planted a crop of poinsettias on schedule. She conducted proper watering, fertilization, pest control, pinching, chemical growth regulation and temperature control. At Christmas the crop had failed to flower and was still green and healthy. Explain how this could have happened

What will be an ideal response?


Light reached the crop during the night which placed it under short night
conditions. Since it requires long nights to flower it remained vegetative.

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