To: TEXOKIE
Thanks, TArcher. Could you elaborate on your suggestion that it is air providing an important part of the equation?Welcome FRiend.
Air -- more specifically, Carbon Dioxide in the Air:
"In the Calvin cycle, atmospheric carbon dioxide is incorporated into already existing organic carbon compounds, such as ribulose bisphosphate (RuBP).[5] Using the ATP and NADPH produced by the light-dependent reactions, the resulting compounds are then reduced into triose phosphate. Of every six triose phosphate molecules produced, one is removed to form further carbohydrates and five are "recycled" back into the cycle to regenerate the original carbon dioxide acceptor, RuBP...."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis
205 posted on
07/03/2013 5:45:18 AM PDT by
TArcher
("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
To: TArcher
KEWL! Thanks for the graphic explanation! That works even inside? We don’t have any grow lights on it or anything.
BTW, it’s now 2 1/2 inches tall!
208 posted on
07/03/2013 8:50:03 AM PDT by
TEXOKIE
(We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
To: TArcher
LOL! Darlin just up-ended it to look, and IT IS STARTING TO SHOW TINY ROOTLETS!!!
(Happy Dance!)
209 posted on
07/03/2013 8:52:13 AM PDT by
TEXOKIE
(We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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