"Don Staples" wrote in message
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"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.

Coming from you Don Staples that's a compliment.

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Sincerely,
John A. Keslick, Jr.
Consulting Forester & Tree Expert
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.