Re: drought
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: drought
- From: M*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 17:42:30 EDT
In a message dated 8/14/1999 1:29:49 PM Central Daylight Time,
tmiller4@tampabay.rr.com writes:
<<
I know later in this thread someone points out about
lightning/nitrogen/foliar feeding, but even if we get little or no nearby
lightning, the rain has a magical effect.
>>
There could be a number of diffrent things at work in rain water.
Nitrogen from electrical charges in storms-does not mean that there is
visible lightning.
pH-rain water is more or less close to neutral or acidic.
Most well and city water is alkaline.
Rain water is "soft water" that is it does not have minerals dissolved in it.
Those minerals found in tap and well water tend to bind up free ions like
free nitrogen.
There might also be physiological responses that plants have to storms do to
electrical activity in the atmosphere-think of it like plants salvation in
anticipation of the rain like a person over a thick steak.
Paul
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