EricSg wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 5:05 pm
I have tried this too.
Plants are happy.
But I’m getting more green on the traps.
In fact, the red traps turn back to green sometimes.
When a plant blushes red, it does so for 2 reasons: to attract arthropods and to protect its cellular structures from being damaged by intense light radiation. As you increase light duration and intensity, a flytrap will “color up” more and more, but at a long enough duration and high enough intensity of light, photosynthesis stops increasing because too much radiation damage is taking place at the cellular level. The chloroplasts are like little generators that are being worked too hard.
Azoxystrobin allows for a plant to achieve a higher rate of photosynthesis because it allows the plant to grow under a level of light that would otherwise damage the plant.
So if your flytraps lose their red coloring when you apply azoxystrobin to them, it means it is working, but you can now further increase your plant’s lighting and get even faster growth because the azoxystrobin is protecting the plant from the radiation damage it would otherwise receive from the more intense light.