Is a textured window considered indirect light?

[estación seca]

Take an old transformer from a discarded small appliance like an electric shaver, telephone answering machine or peripheral hard drive. Cut the cord near the appliance and strip a little of the insulation off the two wires. Use wire nuts to twist together each of the two wires to a wire from a computer fan, which operate on direct current. When you plug in the transformer the fan will operate.

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Herrania

Ray - Is that why I've seen a few botanists say plain white reflectors are better than metallic, especially for understory plants?

In the case of reflectors, its a matter of degree, starting with a true mirror.

With a mirror, a beam of light is reflected in the same angle that the incoming light strikes it. If sunlight coming in at 45-degrees from above hits a mirror, it is reflected at 45 degrees straight to the floor. The less mirror-like the surface, the more scattering of the light.

At the opposite end of that spectrum (hah!) is a bright white, matte surface. In that case, the light is scattered in all directions, so plants that are not directly in the beam of light still get some.