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GMU:DIY Biolab “Driver’s License”/Christian Wiegert (view source)
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===Artificial Growth medium=== | ===Artificial Growth medium=== | ||
The growth medium that i used was able to give tha plants a base and to provide them with moisture for | The growth medium that i used was able to give tha plants a base and to provide them with moisture for around two weeks. After roughly one week mold started growing, because i didn't work sterile enough. And so all tha plants died. Using simple soil that you can find all around has to be watered more often (but at least it can be rewatered) and for some reason usually keeps molds under control, again without any effort | ||
===Conclusion=== | |||
So during my experiments I learned interesting things about the life of plants and in fact right now I have more questions than when starting out, but for my one thing is very obvious: Trying to to make plants grow in an artificial way is nothing bad just because its not like nature, basically we are only using things that are somehow derived from nature, but it needs a whole lot of effort and consumes a big amount of energy. So in the end for me the question is how much energy is it worth e.g. growing plants in winter and where do we get that energy from. Using fossil energy for these purposes surely is quite a bad thing. Using renewable energy is much better, but as a conversion of energy always inherits some inneficiency its always less efficient than using the sunlight directly to grow plants. And regarding the time and work it takes, conventional planting also seems to make more sense to me, as this uses symbiotic effects of organisms to achieve a friendly growing environment very easily compared to buying and controlling different ingredients plus always having to monitor the process. | |||
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