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Follansbee, Wv

I came across this great website:

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/R/Roots.html

It explains quite well how water and food are moved through a plant. It's a little in depth, but understandable. Follow the provided links in the article to other articles for a better overall picture. I took a particular interest in the discussion of trunk diameter fluctuation during different times of the day. Could this same fluctuation happen in cucurbits? Could it cause a split?
Many other topics are discussed as well. If this information could be analyzed into more laymans terms, it may shed some light on exactly what our plants are doing, and when they are doing it.
In any case, I found it to be a very interesting and informative site.

10/18/2005 8:43:25 AM

Ontario, Canada.

Monty,

The keys IMHO

Unsuberized Roots = Tea & Agro-K's vigor CAl-Phos to promote young root hairs.

10/18/2005 7:33:57 PM

Www.extremepumpkinstore.com

Vigor cal Phos is an amazing product.

10/18/2005 8:34:30 PM

Montoursville, PA

Should anyone like, to look at this closely, there is something identified but not explained further. In association with the root...an unidentified substance through which and beyond which the finest root hair is described as traveling then attached, to a grain, of soil. Strangely there is no evidence, of billions, of biological life being that grain, of soil. The soil is completely organic. Contents, of the soil, are the minerals between which the soil rests. The soil structure we speak, of can not exist without the total being considered.

I am still looking, for the words indicating that worn out organic mater becomes dirt some how changing, from organic to inorganic. Seems to me only organic matter can biodegrade. I know of no such thing being called worn out soil or dirt as a result, of natural biological processes.

Another glaring ommission is a description, of the organic parts of, or finished compost which becomes humus from which humic acids are a part, of or seperate from. They must be seperate from, or can be seperated from. They are now commonly sold, in a bottle. This person has no reguard, for organic matter doing any more than creating soil structure. I wonder where the NPK came from before about 1940 when there were no NPK's in a bag or bottle?

10/19/2005 11:25:59 AM