Smoke-water and bulb growth
Peter Taggart (Sat, 04 Jan 2014 23:50:28 PST)
I have only ever used smoke rarely for Juno Iris seed germination,
however,I have read of smoke being used to enhance growth after
germination. There is a study here but there is more to it from what I
remember reading, this article is primarily concerned with the effect on
flowering. It also reduces the experiment to one using ethylene.
http://journal.ashspublications.org/content/115/…
This is a summary of an experiment using smoke and concludes significant
increase in seedling growth with increased uptake of nitrogen and magnesium
http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/content/47/…
Peter (UK)
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:28 AM, William Hoffmann <wahoffma@ncsu.edu> wrote:
I have seen multiple posts on this list about using smoke water to
stimulate germination of certain species. Does anyone use it to
enhance growth after germination? I recently came across an
interesting article in which commercial onion seedlings were watered
regularly with smoke water. It had an impressive effect on growth,
compared to plants that did not receive smoke water. After 175 days,
the plants receiving smoke water had more than twice the bulb mass of
the controls. If this response is common among geophytes, it would be
quite a benefit. Have any of you tried this?
The article citation is Kulkarni et al, Effect of smoke-water and a
smoke-isolated butenolide on the growth and genotoxicity of commercial
onion, Scientia Horticulturae, Volume 124, Issue 4, 1 May 2010, Pages
434-439.