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Experiment:
30 identical dirt plants in identical conditions. 10 fed each watering, 10 fed every other watering, 10 fed every 3rd watering.
Questions:
- Which set does better with overall identical amounts of food?
- Can any set handle more food than the others, and if so does it increase growth or yield?
I need a grant please, for this and many more experiments.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
30 identical dirt plants in identical conditions. 10 fed each watering, 10 fed every other watering, 10 fed every 3rd watering.
and 10 in Miracle Grow prefertilized soil, and 10 in soil and Osmacote.
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TEST LAUNCH-Operation Redwood Tree
TEST LAUNCH-Operation Redwood Tree
Quote:
Originally Posted by Opie Yutts
Experiment:
30 identical dirt plants in identical conditions. 10 fed each watering, 10 fed every other watering, 10 fed every 3rd watering.
Questions:
- Which set does better with overall identical amounts of food?
- Can any set handle more food than the others, and if so does it increase growth or yield?
I need a grant please, for this and many more experiments.
These are EXACTLY the kind of things I want to know!! Will somebody just please send Opie a bunch of money so he can get started!!
Of course we also accept donations of finished plants if supplied with vague instructions on how they were fed or even NOT supplied......or finished either!! :D :stoned:
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All of these experiments have been done by the floriculture industry.
Have a look @ the Umich Ag extension archives- Also Umass, Texas A&M, U Georgia, U Florida.
Putting flower weight on an annual is pretty much putting flower weight on an annual, whatever it may be. Pref nute ratios will vary a little bit ( think commercial floriculture, because fruit formation is a whole differant story), but moisture/media/air ratios over EC are pretty basic. Ain't that differant from the cut flower trade at all.
That being said, it's about all done drip to waste at an EC varied to normalize h20/ion uptake ratios- many small feedings at highest strength possible to maintain proper EC on the waste side of the media, with at least 10% overwatering. Feed nute EC is adjusted ( often realtime) to provide consistant nute uptake regardless of plant transpiration volume, at a rate determined by available light.
In other words, nutrient ion total weight being sucked up the stalk is the same weight for every photon ( in the appropriate spectra) utilized, regardless of the total amount of water transpired.
Lots of small volume applications, EC variable.
Wow- sorry about the tangent- Space Queen makes me, well, spacy...
Oh, and you could probabley get the grant to do the work in a differant annual- Big market for polyhouse shiso in some regions, but it's feed twitchy.
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OK.
I'll read that again when I'm sober. I think I need some Space Queen.
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Asian Vegetables
1821 - Perilla Red / Shiso
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Leaves and flower stalks eaten raw, or with
[align=left]tempura, exhibiting a deep red/purple colour of
pleasing aroma. Sow late spring.[/align]
Pkt: 400 seeds: $3.50 10g: $7.30.[/align]
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Originally Posted by Weedhound
From a Different Stork...and many thanks. :)
And Stork......this is a LOOOOONNNNNGGGGG flowering plant so I admire your patience with the thai. ;)
This is going to be PRIVATE RESERVE :D:D so we're going for quality as this plant is not known to be a huge yielder. Also a VERY light feeder.....topped out at 800ppm and cries like a baby if you go over it. :wtf:
ahh, i was wondering about your strawberry recently.:)
i will agree, fussy, and long flowering.
i have one in week 12 and 1 in week 15, believe it or not.
but, also had a load of issues.
LL reaction, bleached leaves
heat with change of season
over-nuted
completely flushed the soil about 4 wks ago and started adding gradually. they came outta the coma and started reflowering.
really weird. all a sudden the one got really tall, so i had to reinvent the portascrog real quick and got her under control, kinda.
hope ya dont mind me flashin a few pix.;)