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Originally Posted by TOMMYMIAMI
Actually If I may bother you little bit more, I do really value your opinions very much, I have tried to google and find out what are these light requirements, I do not mean foot candle measurements, I want to know what each means. In my research I thunk I found this:
SHADE/FULL SHADE - place where there is no sun at all the whole growing season
PARTIAL SHADE / HALF SHADE - shade combined with some sun
FILTERED SUN/LIGHT - longer period of sunlight, filtered with trees or shade cloth
Is this pretty much it? I wish someone here wrote exact specification of each category, and I do not mean foot candles, but actually outside locations for each one:-))))
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Those terms don't resonate with me, therefore I don't use them.
I used to mess up a lot with the lighting because these terms didn't make any sense to me at all.
This is why I use lighting terms that mean something to me, and I do my best to convey it.
I feel that many people tend to understand moderate lighting means that it shouldn't be on either extremes. Not full sun or extremely bright and not full shade or very shady.
I also feel that many people tend to understand "indirect light" better than "partial shade" or "partial sun". Indirect means that it's not getting a direct source of lighting - not full sun. The light is more or less ambient.
"Filtered light" is more understandable to me. But in the beginning, I kept asking myself "Why use the word 'filtered'?" The context of the word "filtered" would be best understood in natural terms versus in terms of household furniture. Here's what I mean:
Think about how most small plants grow.
Many of them grow under the protection of larger plants - namely, trees.
These plants growing under the canopy of trees still receive light, because if they didn't, they wouldn't be alive for long. This light is getting through the spaces in between the leaves and branches of the trees above these small plants.
This is the context by which "filtered light" should be understood as. Try not to think of "filtered light" in terms of window blinds and window screens and such; it just doesn't make much sense to me.