Hordeum vulgare, known as Barley in English and Jamara in Nepali, is used in the Dashain festival traditionally. For this project, the seeds of Barley were collected from the Kathmandu district of Nepal and observed in three different samples. Seeds sowed in this study were kept under different light conditions. The samples were kept under regular sunlight, LED light source with a color temperature of 6500K and in a dark room with no light source separately for a period of 15 days. If the plants were exposed to various kinds of light it was observed that growth of the plants is influenced by types of light. It was also found that each of the above-mentioned sources of light affected the plant growth differently. Out of the three samples that were taken; the first sample was exposed to direct sunlight while the second sample was exposed to light with a daylight color temperature of 6500 Kelvin and the third sample was placed in a room with no exposure to light. This experiment drew conclusions based on the differences in growth rate, the color of the leaves, the number of branches developed from a seed, the formation of roots, and the strength of anchorage.
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