How Crops Feed Themselves During Root Stress
Hello everyone, I hope that you are all having a great day today.
If you check out these crops I'm showing you in the video, I realized something and at the end of the video I know you'll understand.
It's mainly about how some of the crops are able to survive. The plant uses the big older leaves down at the bottom of the plant like storage tanks for food.
In dry times when the roots of the plant are not able to pull water and food up from the soil for the plant to survive, the plant uses the big older leaves storage tanks to supply the top part of the plant with food for it to survive. The new small leaves on the top of the plant are not able to make their own food in dry times. The top part of the plant would die in dry times if the plant did not have the big older leaves to supply the top part of the plant with food for it to survive.
So the plant maintains the young shoots and uses the old leaves as a storage for its food. They look pale and eventually wither and fall off because they have been emptied of their food which was sent up to the top part of the plant where the new, small leaves are trying to grow.
When you see the top part of the plant start to look damaged, it means that the plant has finished using its storage of food for emergency situations and it has technically 'eaten itself', (for the lack of a better word) in an attempt to survive.
In order for the plant to survive and to grow without having to destroy itself, we must look after the soil of the plant in order to keep the roots working every day.
I hope your gardens and your farms do well this year.
Posted with Speem