Send me some kovachii seed and I'll tell you
How many kilos do you want?
Send me some kovachii seed and I'll tell you
How many kilos do you want?
tons of water are the ''sectrets''
Aquatic tox 101 " the solution to pollution is dilution".
Unfortunately everyone is so scared of root rot that nobody waters enough.
It is well known in plant physiology circles that K and Na uptake are competitive. But what cracks me up is that as long as I've been growing orchids Na has always been considered "evil" and too be avoided at all costs. Now all of a sudden its a necessary nutrientoke:oke:
In the environment Na is way more common than K. The low K system, or my personal growing practices didn't add any Na to the system to address that. So if our plants were suffering from Na deficiency then once again excess K is a culprit for causing that.
This sodium-potassium balance holds for people as well. Now where does lithium come into this? And does it make the plants behave better? oke:
This sodium-potassium balance holds for people as well. Now where does lithium come into this? And does it make the plants behave better? oke:
Also pretty wild is that at least one study done on plant uptake of K used rubidium since it was a strong K surrogate for the plants to uptake (and easier to trace into different functions/places in the cell. But that doesn't mean that plants also have a rubidium requirement.
What about silicon? Did you test for it, or added it specifically?
Aluminum would be quite abundant in all media - clay is an alumino-silicate, and whether the media came from soil-growing plants or lava rock or LECA, there would be plenty of aluminum in all of them. But were the plants with high Al levels any different from plants with low levels?
Recycle rates give you an idea about what is rare and what is important to the plant to recover.
I wonder if the recycle rate is the same if the nutrient is plentiful in the media?
Will these plants not recycle if they have a ready supply to the roots?
Naoki I thought I sent a link on K inhibition to photosynthesis (in BG algae). (Maybe a couple of other links on how the photosynthesis II system works)
K piling up in chloroplasts seems to increase cellular alkalinity levels dramatically(decreasing the efficiency of photosynthesis) The nitrate reductase system is part of the Photosynthesis II system (which is part of all photosynthetic plants physiology). If you cut down photosynthetic efficiency, you also retard the plants ability to convert nitrate to ammonia. Also high levels of intracellular alkalinity (bicarbonate ion) make nitrate uptake from the root zone and uphill battle if there is high alkalinity in the root zone.
Since the plant uses NO3 to make NH3 to make amino acids, then you can see you can sidestep the whole NO3 issue by going direct to NH3 or amino acids.
:rollhappy:How many kilos do you want?
Serious? I would love say 1/4 of a teaspoon :drool:
Recycle rates give you an idea about what is rare and what is important to the plant to recover.
"Upon illumination, additional influx of K from the cytosol [into chloroplast] is required for the maintenance of a high pH in the stroma [inside of chloroplasts but outside of thylakoid, thylakoid membrane is the place where Photosystems I & II and electron transport chain is located] necessary for optimal RuBP carboxylase activity."
- Correlation between NR activity/gene expression and photosynthesis makes sense since NR requires ATP.
- So this seems to suggest synergism between NO3 and K instead of antagonism in plants.
Among 17 essential elements, some are phloem-"mobile" (Mg, P, K, N) and others are "immobile" (B, Fe, Ca). The other 10 elements are inbetween the two extreme groups. These mobile elements are the ones which you call "recycled", right? Isn't this phloem-mobility partly determined by functions/roles of each element rather than what elements are rare/important? For example, Ca is a component of middle lamella of cell walls, and I'm guessing that it is probably energetically costly to recycle it (even cells die, cell wall could stay there and they form dead leaves).
Is Na categorized as essential elements now? It was called a beneficial element (i.e. plant can complete life-cycle without it)? Maybe my textbook is old.
:rollhappy:
Serious? I would love say 1/4 of a teaspoon :drool:
Man this sounds like a coke deal:evil:
Man this sounds like a coke deal:evil:
I think I am beginning to see the science behind this K-lite stuff...
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