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if you took a typical green house, made it air tight and made it a controlled envirement so that there a certain percent of CO2 in the like 90% or so and the other 10 % was normal air could the plants grow and possibly even grow better than in a normal enviroment,(if they where still in dirt and watered regulary)

2006-07-22 14:56:14 · 5 answers · asked by boygothops33 1 in Science & Mathematics Botany

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Yes and they actually do this with tomatoes to increase the crops.

2006-07-22 15:03:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

You been reading too much high times amigo! What I would do, is pick the type of "plant" I wanted to grow, and set up 5 different rooms, each with a 15 - 20 percent variance in CO2... Observe the plants on a weekly basis. In order to be perfectly scientific about this, the approach would necessitate using several plants from the same seed, in other words, cloning. After the first wave of the experiment carried through, you could find the most suitable environment (the ones with the largest plants), and using the same rooms, you could actually fine tune your CO2 levels running another set of plants with only a 2-4 percent difference in CO2.

The dirt would all need to be uniform in nutrient content, and all drinking the same water. WHATEVER you do, DO NOT intriduce CO2 to your water supply. Roots and CO2 = death.

If you do end up running this experiment, I would like very much to know the outcome...

2006-07-22 22:11:15 · answer #2 · answered by rpalm82 2 · 0 0

Not quite. Although, a plant does require CO2, it also requires other gases as well ie, O2 for respiration, N2 in the form of Nitrates for tissue formation and a myriad of other gases for its healthy survival. Thus a plant should be left to grow in its normal habitat provided that there is little or no pollution surrounding it & only then will the growth of the plant be the best.

2006-07-23 03:39:25 · answer #3 · answered by Mimi 2 · 0 0

you have to be careful with the CO2 percentage. you may try to add a higher percentage but remember that this helps only if it's the percentage is not too big.. if you want to increase the size/yield of fruits then better add some methane :)

2006-07-23 06:02:34 · answer #4 · answered by zwyklydachowiec 2 · 0 0

no,

2006-07-22 22:01:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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