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Re: Re[2]: Aerated water improving plants' growth

Shawn said,
>I'm wondering if it isn't some beneficial bacteria or something that
>is benefiting from the aerobic (vs. anaerobic) environment, and helping
>the plants in that way. Don't plants use carbon dioxide? Just a thought,
>but I wonder if giving them club soda would have an even better effect?
>(:) That could get expensive, though!

Hey, I should have thought of that.  Shawn is right, of course:  plants take
in CO2 and put out O, so my thought was pretty illogical.

Isn't it true that there is some CO2 *in* air, though in only small amounts?
Well, in any case, thanks to Shawn for making an eminently reasonable
suggestion.

I've got a lot of tomatoes (about 8 different varieties) growing nicely and
could offer to "water" one of them with nothing but club soda for the rest
of the season while the plant of the same variety growing adjacent to the
soda-drinker would get regular water.  If the clubber died, it wouldn't be a
tragedy, and doing that with all other variables held constant would give us
some more info.
I'm tempted to try it.  Should I?

--Janet

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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com

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