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I have a decent size vegetable garden and various annual flowers in my back yard.

I recently bought some solar lights and put it around the plants. The lights stays on all night long, and I wonder is having a light source around them 24/7 (sun in day time, solar lights at night) bad for plants?

Niall C.
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As far as the plants are concerned, it's still dark at night, unless you spent the price of a house on some very abnormally large and bright solar lights.

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I put a flat round solar light in my potted eggplants last year and they really loved it. I got several eggplants off of them and they were delicious. So I'm trying it again this year. But I have read that plants need a sleep cycle in darkness and should have a period of no light. So...I'm on the fence about whether to do this with other potted veggies this year. I'm giving it a trial run for a couple weeks alternating days with all struggling potted veggies except tomatoes, strawberries and okra. I pretty much think if your plant doesn't get 7 or 8 hours of sunlight, it may help those plants.

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