Hydroponic plants can actually glow, and the owner is making a fortune
Hydroponic plants can actually glow too, and the owner is raking it in (photos)
When we take the plants into a dark environment, they glow.
In nature, animals like jellyfish and fireflies can glow, but plants that glow? This is truly the first time we have heard of it. Look, in a dark environment, each plant gives off a faint glow like a luminous pearl, adding a touch of mystery and romance. Is their ability to glow achieved the same way as making glowing artificial flowers, by spraying on fluorescent powder or luminous powder?
It is different, because plants are living organisms. These substances are inherently rejected by the plant itself, or the chemicals in these materials themselves cause phytotoxicity, and the plants will die.
Since sprayed-on chemicals do not work, then what is it that makes these plants glow?
A fluorescence inducer, a nanoscale substance with very strong penetrating ability. After adsorption and absorption, no matter how we spray water on it, it will not come off, and it will not harm the plants, the human body or the environment.
Although there is a fluorescence inducer, if you spray it directly onto hydroponic plants, you still cannot make them into glowing plants.
After the fluorescence inducer is sprayed on, the stomata on the outside become blocked, affecting the plant's gas exchange with the outside, causing the leaves to dry out, scorch, or drop, or even causing the plant to die.
How to solve this problem? Teacher Xu also has his own method: before spraying the fluorescence inducer, place hydroponic plants that have developed water roots onto an aeroponic seedling bed and spray them with salicylic acid for treatment. In this process, salicylic acid plays three roles. The first role is to make the plant's leaf stomata, which were originally all open, autonomously choose to close some and keep some open.
Then the closed parts are treated with the fluorescence inducer, while the open parts handle the ventilation problem. It is the same principle as pinching your nose shut, and your mouth naturally opens. In this way, the plant will both glow and not have its internal and external gas exchange affected.
In addition, to make the plant's ability to exchange gas with the outside stronger, the second role of salicylic acid is to promote the formation of respiratory roots or the expansion of lenticels. For example, cactus grows respiratory roots, and sago palm (cycad) develops expanded lenticels. With these, in addition to the stomata on the leaves, the plant has another pathway for gas exchange with the outside. This way, even if the fluorescence inducer completely blocks the stomata on the leaf surface, the plant can still exchange gas with the outside. This is also the same principle as pinching your nose shut while your mouth can still breathe. As for the third role of salicylic acid, it is to enhance the plant's disease resistance.
Because after the fluorescence inducer is sprayed on, some stomata will become blocked, and after they are blocked, the plant's disease resistance will decrease. Through salicylic acid, we can at the same time improve its disease resistance.
After the plant has been treated with salicylic acid, you can safely spray the fluorescence inducer. Plants whose roots and fish can be viewed by day and which can glow by night are thus presented before you and me, adding another touch of delight to life.
Hydroponic plants can actually glow too, and the owner is raking it in (photos)
When we take the plants into a dark environment, they glow.
In nature, animals like jellyfish and fireflies can glow, but plants that glow? This is truly the first time we have heard of it. Look, in a dark environment, each plant gives off a faint glow like a luminous pearl, adding a touch of mystery and romance. Is their ability to glow achieved the same way as making glowing artificial flowers, by spraying on fluorescent powder or luminous powder?
It is different, because plants are living organisms. These substances are inherently rejected by the plant itself, or the chemicals in these materials themselves cause phytotoxicity, and the plants will die.
Since sprayed-on chemicals do not work, then what is it that makes these plants glow?
A fluorescence inducer, a nanoscale substance with very strong penetrating ability. After adsorption and absorption, no matter how we spray water on it, it will not come off, and it will not harm the plants, the human body or the environment.
Although there is a fluorescence inducer, if you spray it directly onto hydroponic plants, you still cannot make them into glowing plants.
After the fluorescence inducer is sprayed on, the stomata on the outside become blocked, affecting the plant's gas exchange with the outside, causing the leaves to dry out, scorch, or drop, or even causing the plant to die.
How to solve this problem? Teacher Xu also has his own method: before spraying the fluorescence inducer, place hydroponic plants that have developed water roots onto an aeroponic seedling bed and spray them with salicylic acid for treatment. In this process, salicylic acid plays three roles. The first role is to make the plant's leaf stomata, which were originally all open, autonomously choose to close some and keep some open.
Then the closed parts are treated with the fluorescence inducer, while the open parts handle the ventilation problem. It is the same principle as pinching your nose shut, and your mouth naturally opens. In this way, the plant will both glow and not have its internal and external gas exchange affected.
In addition, to make the plant's ability to exchange gas with the outside stronger, the second role of salicylic acid is to promote the formation of respiratory roots or the expansion of lenticels. For example, cactus grows respiratory roots, and sago palm (cycad) develops expanded lenticels. With these, in addition to the stomata on the leaves, the plant has another pathway for gas exchange with the outside. This way, even if the fluorescence inducer completely blocks the stomata on the leaf surface, the plant can still exchange gas with the outside. This is also the same principle as pinching your nose shut while your mouth can still breathe. As for the third role of salicylic acid, it is to enhance the plant's disease resistance.
Because after the fluorescence inducer is sprayed on, some stomata will become blocked, and after they are blocked, the plant's disease resistance will decrease. Through salicylic acid, we can at the same time improve its disease resistance.
After the plant has been treated with salicylic acid, you can safely spray the fluorescence inducer. Plants whose roots and fish can be viewed by day and which can glow by night are thus presented before you and me, adding another touch of delight to life.