Having plants inside your home is a great way to provide a cozy, pleasing, and welcoming environment. Not to mention the proven health benefits of plants is a nice bonus. To make sure your plants thrive and stay lush and green, it’s imperative you provide them with enough light. Since light is their food source, when a plant is “light-starved” it shows it by marked changes in its appearance. Billy Heroman’s Flowers want to make sure you know how to identify signs of insufficient light in your plants so they continue to thrive and look lush in your home.
Signs of Insufficient Light in Your Plants
Leggy
Leggy is used to describe plants with skinny stems and sparse leaves. If plants don’t get enough light, it’s like they are on a diet and they’ll get too thin. Light is what makes plants become lush and full. If your plant has slender stems with leaves positioned far apart from one another, then it is a sign of meager light.

Smaller Leaves
If new growth doesn’t match in size older leaves of the plant when it was healthy, then the plant lacks enough energy to produce the full-sized leaves. Improve the light and watch your plant thrive.
Leaning
When a plant visibly leans, it is desperately seeking light. Oftentimes the result is a plant with one side full of leaves and the other side is bare. To prevent this from happening, make sure is getting adequate light and rotate it a quarter-turn at least once a week. This way the entire plant will benefit from light and not just one side.

Abnormal Leaf Color
Pale green or yellow-colored leaves that drop off idicate light deficiency. Not enough light keeps the chlorophyll from doing its job, therefore the green will begin to fade ane eventuall turn yellow.
Slowed Growth or No Growth
The sun gives plant energy to grow and thrive. If a plant does not get enough light, it won’t grow like it should. Plants can survive with little light, but in order to conserve energy, they will limit their growth and maintain a smaller size.
Getting the Light Right

You may be inclined to move all of your plants to the sunniest area of your home, but don’t! There are only a few types of plants that can handle hours of bright direct sunlight, such as palm plants, cacti, and succulents.
Indirect bright light is the best lighting condition for most plant varieties except shade-loving plants such as ferns and orchids. It will take a bit of trial and error before finding the perfect balance of light for your plants. Just carefully check your plants every so often to ensure they are not showing signs of distress.