Had fun sharing some plant knowledge yesterday, would love to share more!
I keep asking my plant questions but it doesn’t answer
Pikmin
so i have a tree i put in a pot, covered with soil, and only ever added water to it. my tree’s mass has increased, yet the soil has not lost any! by what magicks was water transmuted to bark, sap, and leaf?
equivalent exchange - the first law of alchemy
The mass of a tree is primarily carbon, and comes from the splitting of CO2 into O2 and C by way of photosynthesis.
the carbon must come from the water, so water is made of coal??? 
i must inform the king!okay but non-joke question: what the hell is a nitrogen cycle and how does it work in practice like in your garden
Here’s a nitrogen cycle diagram. It’s not dissimilar to things like the water cycle or food chain cycle.
Practically speaking, you want to occasionally plant nitrogen fixing plants in your garden, as other plants will remove it from the soil. Lots of people will put tons of fertilizer into their garden, and that seeks to achieve similar goals.
how can there be plants that leech & plants that fix nitrogen? if they all need nitrogen, that is. do they all need nitrogen?The sky is full of nitrogen, some of them can grab it from there and others take it from the ground. I’m not a plant scientist, so I don’t really know all the details
The pea family is notorious for this, this is part of why I throw clover all over anytime I turn dirt in the yard
Is there a good way to make homemade potting soil out of local soils that are heavily clay-dominant? Potting soils typically use perlite or vermiculite for drainage; could I sediment sand out of the soil, or would I be better off using crushed brick as larger aggregate?
Right now my model is 2 parts sedimented soil (silt + sand = maybe 10% of total makeup), 1 part biochar, 2 parts compost.
I’ve been asking this plant questions for 15 minutes, but got no answer. Is here something wrong with it? Am i not curious enough?Plants actually speak in drum n bass. Play a liquid DNB playlist and it will answer.
Can you recommend any easy to look after houseplants that aren’t toxic to cats? Our girls are fiends who will literally chew on any leaf or piece of greenery they can reach. We tried planting some cat grass to distract them but they just knocked the pots over and got soil everywhere. We live in an apartment.
Rattlesnake plants and spider plants are ready to care for and not toxic to cats. Parlor palms and ponytail palms are also non-toxic if you’re looking for something a bit more leafy, haha!
Awesome thankssss
