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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
From a link supplied from one of our readers, here is a really interesting article on growing better tasting peas and hydroponics
"When I was young, I was like most kids and would not eat peas—until my mother came up with calling them “nice, green peas”. I ate them like there ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I have to respect people ballsy enough to put up a web site (in this case a web site that wes done very nicely) that deals with growing pot. I could just imagine my own family finding out about such a thing and then fining out that I was the ...
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Thanks, Crusey, for the response to our post and for providing us with this link to a great article on plant cloning:
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/60307
"In hydroponics, plant cloning is the act of reproducing a plant asexually so that it is a genetic copy of the original. Many people choose to clone because it ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
I had wondered what the oldest known living plant is...because sometimes I just wonder things like that. Here's what I found at wonderquest.com....
The oldest living plant individual — King’s holly (Lomatia tasmanica) — is 43,600 years old.
Determining that King’s holly is indeed the oldest living plant reads like a ...
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