do not disturb plants at night.(Assertive)
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Really, I don’t think there’s any good reason to not touch plants at night. There could be rules against it going back to antiquity, because in the dark one might inadvertently touch poisonous or toxic plants, fall into holes, get bit by night-hunting spiders, or some such.
The rest of it, I’m afraid, is basically children’s stories. If you choose to follow ancient mythological systems, you’re perfectly within your rights to do so, but there is no REAL reason to do so.
Disturb the plants when they’re sleeping? This comes from the ancients’ mystical perceptions. In truth, if a plant is in a state of reduced metabolic activity at night, due to the absence of light, how is touching it supposed to be a negative thing? Don’t the wind and rain touch plants at night, move them about, bang them here and there sometimes? Yet plants have endured for hundreds of million of years.
Also a plant is a creature (yes, plants are living things, so I feel that using a word like creature is justified,) whose life-supporting systems exist totally in each leaf and stem, rather than concentrated in various organs, as is the case with animals. That’s why a complete plant can grow from just a piece of stem. Kind of like if we could grow a whole new self simply by cutting off a finger and sticking it into a nice bowl of stew.
Plants live on completely different time scale, a totally different wavelength, than do animals. The idea that touching or brushing up against them in the night could possibly affect or harm them is, simply put, nonsense.
Want to know some more nonsense - well, maybe nonsense is impolite, maybe just call it misunderstanding? The idea that you shouldn’t have plants in the house, or in your bedroom at night, because they “suck up all the oxygen” or “give off carbon dioxide which will suffocate you at night,” or some variation of such.
This is wrong on several levels. First, the actual amount of oxygen, carbon dioxide, or anything else, given off or absorbed by a single plant under any conditions, day or night, is almost infinitesimally small - you would need a houseful (full to the point that you can hardly walk) of plants to make even a measurable result.
Second, plants don’t produce oxygen at night. Oxygen is a byproduct of photosynthesis, which can only take place in the presence of light, no matter what kind of photosynthetic pathway (C3, C4, or CAM) the plant may use.
Third, plants don’t absorb or “breathe in” oxygen at night. They don’t work the opposite of the way they do during the day. It’s true that living plant cells do use oxygen during the night in cellular respiration (as do the cells of all living things,) but it’s probable that the major amount of this oxygen is already circulating through the plant cells from the day’s photosynthesis. And remember what I said above - the amount a plant would be using is extremely small. If you have a pet or another person sleeping in the bedroom with you, they probably use more oxygen in one breath than a roomful of plants would use all night.
Fourth, they don’t give off carbon dioxide at night in any amount that poses any danger to animal life. They don’t “breathe in” CO2 during the day, and “breathe” it out at night. They aren’t surrounded by clouds of it at night that can attack and smother passers by. The CO2 that they produce at night is a byproduct of cellular respiration, just as it is for animals, but the amount is extremely small - impossible to measure except under laboratory conditions. It would make more sense to say that you shouldn’t sleep in a room with another person, because you could suffocate from the CO2 they produce.
I hope this (perhaps long-winded) answer adds a bit to your understanding of our fellow Earth-creatures, the Plants.