Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
- Wants
- Bright direct
- Tolerates
- Bright direct down to bright direct
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Pets
- Not safe
- Outdoors
- Hardy
Why it wants that
Fruit needs energy, and six hours of direct sun is the usual floor for a crop worth picking.
Too little light
Leggy growth, few flowers, fruit that never ripens.
Too much
Sunscald on fruit in extreme heat, but light itself is rarely the limit.