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Silica
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DG wrote: On bamboodirect, they suggest using Dyna-gro Pro-TeKt to supply the plant with silica. Is there another product that will work the same? I can't find it locally. |
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Unlike most other plants, grasses metabolise silica, and a lot of it. Sand, silt and clay are three of the four main components of soil, the fourth being organic matter. Sand is largely silica (but possibly not so easily available for metabolism); clay is hydrated silicate rock, (and probably therefore provides silica most easily available for metabolism, in general); silt is intermediate between sand and clay. So if you are are growing bamboo in a balanced soil in the ground, or in a soil-based growth medium, I think it has plenty of silica available. |
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Most rocks contain a lot of silicate minerals and/or a lot of silica grains, so in practice the sand in your garden soil will be mostly silica, or at least a source of silica. Things might be different if you are gardening on a volcanic soil, or the spoil heap of a mine, etc. Silt can be formed by mechanical weathering, but to get clay we need chemical weathering. So clay (meaning small size soil particles) will reliably be clay (meaning one of a range of aluminium phyllosilicate minerals). |
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