Re: Oxygen in Soil

From: Iamme186@aol.com
Date: Sat Jun 14 1997 - 19:11:11 PDT

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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 22:11:11 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Re: Oxygen in Soil

Carlstrom_Rick@amelnx.advmar.com wrote:

> . . . has
> anyone tried using one of the aquarium bubblers in there water trays? It
seems
> that one of these would keep the water "fresh" by replenishing the oxygen
> dissolved in the water. It would be nice to see an experiment comparing a
plant
> with the bubbler and one without.
>
> I remember reading in a digest that someone used on of these bubblers
with
> their Darlingtonia and noted that they used no soil cooling. Can anyone
expand
> on this theory

Since gases are more soluble in cold water than hot, this might mean that
Darlingtonias are not intolerant of heat, but of oxygen-poor soil. Further
research . . .

Bruce
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/9104

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