Scientific Growing

whidn

Ok I know of a few scientific methods of growing plants like 24 hour murcury grow lights, Hydroponics, and introducing bottled nitrogen to a plants environment. Maybe you could put cuttings under 24 hour lights and a shot of nitrogen once a day to speed up growth.
Or one heal a sick plant with a little extra nitrogen.
Maybe the introduction of different colored light to a discolored
tree could bring back the natural color of the tree.

Anyone ever heard of a hydroponic bonsai?

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bonsaial1

Just curious, Why would you want to give a sick plant a shot of nitrogen. Do you feel like eating a pizza when you are sick with the flu and vomiting?

Might be pretty interesting for the cuttings though.

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whidn

I didnt know, Thats why i posted this thread.
If I am sick I take vitamines and medacine and drink lots of juce:
But I am not a tree..

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One interesting thing I've seen recently is called "microinjection."

It turns out that a tree only uses a tiny percentage of the nutrients that are available in the soil. Many go into the water table. Here is a link that shows how fertilizer/insecticides are injected directly into the trunk of landscape trees. A small hole is drilled in the trunk and a little plastic doohickey containing the fertilizer is hammered into the trunk.

http://www.treedoc.com/MAUGET.HTM

There is a Windows Media Format movie here:

http://www.treedoc.com/Videos/Micro...made%20easy.WMV

Those injectors are expensive, though and they definitely would be too much for a bonsai. Maybe pico-injectors (micro-micro).

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whidn

Hay matt thanks for that link.
That confirms an idea I had.
We have those dern chineese tallow trees all over here. They are taking over everywhere. They are a pretty tree but their hard to kill and they spread rapidly. Spraying roundup wont kill them. I thought that maybe I could do pretty much the same thing as here. My idea envolved drilling a hole in a horixontal branch and sticking a funnel in it and letting about a spoon of pure roundup obsorb into the tree..

For Bonsai, Maybe you could slip an insulen needle under the bark. and inject a tiny amount of firtilizer. You know I got that crazy tree that I dont know what to do with, I think I might try it on that one.

Now to find a diabetic.

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ato-injectors

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whidn

Ok you got me....What is an ATO injector?
does anyone think this would work?
How much fertilizer would be safe?

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whidn

What about an injection of rooting hormones over an air layer?
It would probaly have to be done in the evening when the sap is moving downward instead of upward. I guess....

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