At 10:07 PM 1/8/02 -0500, you wrote: >As I understand it, plants are basically a thermo engine, using warm leaves >evaporating moisture to create the "sucking" to pull up the nutrients >absorbed by the cooler roots. The greater the temperature difference (delta >T) between roots and leaves, the more sucking there is.
Sort of, but there is more to the "energy" than simple thermo. The energy flux is not simply due to temp difference. >The more nutrients >the plant can ingest, the healthier the plant. BD says there is more to it >A brix reading of the plant >seems to bare this out. The higher the brix, the healthier the plant seems >to be...the healthier the plant the more "umph" its product have ( fruit, >flowerettes, leaves, etc). It seems that the higher the health level of the >plant is, the less disease, parasites etc. it has. Not necessarily, you can have carbo compounds that signal an unhealthy condition and attract pests, you can have overly lush growth that is ripe for pests. >Most plants seem to have the greatest spurts of growth in Springtime when >soil is still relkatively cool and the Sun is warming the young leaves. BD says there is more to it >Herein lies my interest in what BD may do. Since the procedure above is not >chemical in nature, rather it utilizes the normal thermo dynamic process. OK, but there is more to the plant growth process than just thermo >Someone suggested or perhaps they miss understood the procedure I described >thinking it was a hydroponic system. I of course was open to discuss this >twist on the cold ag system I was familiar with and the concept of blending >it with hydroponics. Sounds like you are familiar with use of cold water, say seawater, in pipelines to cool tropical soil and permit the growing of temperate crops, such as lettuce. That's a way to establish a temperate ecosystem in another climate, it could be done using BD principles in the soil beds. I expect you would find some differences, Grohman makes the point that etheric forces extend further out of the soil in tropical latitudes. Better read up on BD first. ========================== Dave Robison
