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very nice roots bro what ive noticed is the more nodes you put into the rapidrooter thats were the roots will start forming at . when i say nodes i mean were branches were cut off ... ~Aligee~
The following is from Wiki...I have always thought that because of osmosis the water would tend to migrate into the clone ensuring optimum turgidity.
The following is from Wiki. Doesn't using RO water actually work better than solutions with any TDS? IN other words doesn't using RO water help turgidity and ensure the cut is hydrated to it's full potential?
Osmosis is the movement of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration, aiming to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides.[1][2][3] It may also be used to describe a physical process in which any solvent moves, without input of energy,[4] across a semipermeable membrane (permeable to the solvent, but not the solute) separating two solutions of different concentrations.[5] Although osmosis does not require input of energy, it does use kinetic energy [6] and can be made to do work.[7]
One frame of a computer simulation of osmosis
Net movement of solvent is from the less concentrated (hypotonic) to the more concentrated (hypertonic) solution, which tends to reduce the difference in concentrations. This effect can be countered by increasing the pressure of the hypertonic solution, with respect to the hypotonic. The osmotic pressure is defined to be the pressurerequired to maintain an equilibrium, with no net movement of solvent. Osmotic pressure is a colligative property, meaning that the osmotic pressure depends on the molar concentration of the solute but not on its identity.
Osmosis is essential in biological systems, as biological membranes are semipermeable. In general, these membranes are impermeable to large and polar molecules, such as ions, proteins, and polysaccharides, while being permeable to non-polar and/or hydrophobic molecules like lipids as well as to small molecules like oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, nitric oxide, etc. Permeability depends on solubility, charge, or chemistry, as well as solute size. Water molecules travel through the plasma membrane, tonoplast membrane (vacuole) or protoplast by diffusing across the phospholipid bilayer via aquaporins (small transmembrane proteins similar to those in facilitated diffusion and in creating ion channels). Osmosis provides the primary means by which water is transported into and out of cells. The turgor pressure of a cell is largely maintained by osmosis, across the cell membrane, between the cell interior and its relatively hypotonic environment.[8]
Without a root zone present osmosis does not take place. however i agree that nutrients are unhelpful.
sweet post though.
Perfect plants start with perfect clones. Explosive growth and solid yields depend upon vigorously healthy plants, which means from the second they are cut from their mother, (before even), they are always free of stress and shock.
What this means for cuts is to first make sure the mothers is properly watered and fertilized prior to the cutting. Any problem present in the mother prior to making the cut will plague the clone for the rest of its life.
I have a plant that I took from a slightly unhealthy mother due to neglect and just not enough time to deal with her. It rooted fine but I have not been able to get it healthy for almost 2 months now, it doesnt like the nutes I used to give to the strain with great results, it doesnt like any of the new nutes I changed it up to. how true do you think that statement is DS, cuz if its 100% true then how is there any chance of me getting the plant healthy enough to take new, healthier cuts from.
I never thought that just because in clone it wasnt the healthiest of plants that it wouldnt ever be able to fully recover. thanks for this awesome thread DS
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