[CH] Controlled growing pain
Captain Apathy (captappy@yahoo.com)
Fri, 6 Sep 2002 06:03:38 -0700 (PDT)
kids,
Bear with; I'm looking to be schooled here.
I've seen it brought up many times throughout the
archive, that when a plant is subjected to higher
temperature and restricted water, in the process of
making the plant hardier to survive the harsher
environment, it makes the fruit hotter.
There has been suggested by trustworthy growers/eaters
that you can get different levels of heat from the
same plant from fruit picked at the same time.
Many questions follow: School at will.
Could one have something to do with the other? Could
that one lower branch be shaded from direct sun and
get moved less by wind than a branch above? Could it
be that localized??
What about the idea of regulating plant abuse to get
the chiles you want? Is this done? Is it documented?
Has this ever been tested in a controlled environment?
What about other plants, can I make a plum tomato
taste more tomato-y if I treat it the same way?
Conversely, what if you water it to the edge of
killing it and giving it just enough light to grow and
fruit, what would be the outcome? Or other
combinations like incredible amount of nutrients but
regulate photosynthesis?
Ingo Potrykus and that "golden rice" scares the hell
out of me, but genetically modifying rice to feed
people nutrious food to survive is NOTHING compared to
what I suspect some of you might do to a chile plant.
:-)
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the laws that haven't been passed yet."
-- Central Scrutinizer
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