"symplastless" wrote in message
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Not that it will do much good explaining it.

Auxin; cytokinin; ethylene; gibberellin; abscisic acid. These five
chemicals, in extremely minute amounts, regulate the growth of trees.
They are termed growth regulators. They regulate growth. Growth
regulator is an tree term. Hormone is an animal term. Heal is an animal
term. Trees seal and not heal wounds. Fertilizer is a plant term as
well.

Where do babies come from? Believe it or not, it was only a short time ago
when people thought females were born with small incomplete babies inside.
When the male added the "magic" ingredients, a baby grew. Farmers knew
that substances called fertilizers made plants grow. So, grow is grow,
they thought, and fertilizers must be male ingredients. Until this day
people say the male fertilizes the female. (Is milk from the mother a
fertilizer? It surely makes the baby grow.) Fertilizer is a plant term
that has made its way into animal terms. Fertilizers add elements
essential for healthy growth. Fertilizers do not add an energy source.
Maybe when some people learn where babies come from the fertilizer myth
will go away. Maybe! Just maybe.

In other words. Plant people have used more animal terms than animal
people have used plant terms. Here are only a few examples: Hormones are
produced by ductless glands. Growth regulators are produced by many plant
cells. Babies start when a swimming sperm connects with an egg in the
fallopian tube of animals. Fertilizer is a substance that promotes
growth. Before we knew where babies came from, we thought that materials
deposited by males stimulated growth of a very small already-formed
individual. Time to stop borrowing terms! Fertilizers and babies.
Hormones and growth regulators.

Back to growth regulators. Why by making trees grow faster does not
increase the quality of the wood. When cambial cells produce many new
cells very rapidly, the cells seldom mature in the axial plane.
Gibberellin can only work so fast. Rapid growth usually results in wider
growth increments that have many shorter cells. When cells mature at
their normal rate and time, they elongate. We do not know, but we
believe, that growth regulators, and especially gibberellin, can only work
so fast. They found that out quick when they tried to process very fast
growing trees for pulp.

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Sincerely,
John A. Keslick, Jr.
Consulting con artist http://home.ccil.org/~treeman
and www.treedictionary.com
Beware of so-called tree experts who do not understand tree biology.
Storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions keep reminding
us that we are not the boss.


In other words, when your "expertise" does not hold water, you spin off more
bull shit. You are not a forester, or an expert in any field conceivable.