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Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

So does a plant sucks stuff up threw roots & send to leaves to get changed into food.then what direction does it go or does it just fill the whole plant with water & food & just go where its need to?

7/7/2013 8:40:03 AM

Central NY

Plant sucks up water and nutrients to fill up its reserves so that it can make its OwN food to keep itself growing....I imagine that different parts of what it needs to make the food may be stored in different places within the plant cells...that's just a guess though...(great...., more reading)

7/7/2013 10:00:50 AM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Ok.kinda like a human. We have stuff inside us that is stored & when its needed it goes there. Just like if u get a cut your body sends stuff to clot

7/7/2013 10:13:42 AM

Farming- a bunch of catastrophies that result in a lifestyle

In my greenhouse we use food coloring to see what plant takes what where, kinda of an old time way of doing it but, say your adding a certain nutrient to a particular plant, I add just a drop of food coloring to it to see who puts it where....if nothing else it fascinates the kids. :}

7/7/2013 2:19:30 PM

Princeton Kentucky

Heres a pretty good link with basics on plant biology on how plants take in nutrients from the soil and or leaves:
http://www.shmoop.com/plant-biology/plant-transportation.html

7/7/2013 6:26:31 PM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Thank ya thank ya ill check it out joseph.lb i was wondering if that cud be dun i know i've seen flowers to be changed with coloring

7/7/2013 7:40:30 PM

Stanwood, Washington

I was thinking about this the other day. I was wondering if there might be a reason to put diferent fertalizers on diferent parts of the plant. For instance lots of P&K on the older part of the plant behind the pumokin and More N on the younger new growth out in front of the pumpkin.

7/8/2013 11:29:05 AM

Mnt.pleasant ,tennessee

Thats why im sorta wondering also captian.& also to know if plant in front of kin can feed back or does everything flow foward.the link joseph posted was a good read. Check it out.sorta explains reason to have ph right.plant has to filter out bad stuff.less energy& time doing so mean more time energy doing what its sipposed to

7/8/2013 2:15:05 PM