Rushed
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This is the strangest garden apparatus I've ever seen. Are any of you familiar with the Omega Garden, a cylindrical growing tube which rotates around a central light? The plants' roots are dipped once per each rotation into water/nutrients. It's pretty odd, but it looks like it saves space! www.omegagarden.com
Plants are predominantly affected by gravity. Growing in the opposite direction and maintaining verticality, so as to draw water up, away from gravity. Therefore the Omega Garden cylinder needs to be in constant motion. One revolution an hour, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. If the garden stops turning for any length of time, the plants on their sides, or inverted, will turn and grow towards the sky, regardless of where the light source is. Light sources adjacent, or even below will have no effect on this phenomenon.
The result of the constant rotation is compaction, with unusually strong growth in all directions. We call this phenomenon “ORBITROPISM”. For example, basil with stalks more like bamboo than basil. Tomatoes and peppers standing straight up without hanging or sagging, and holding firm throughout their rotation. Seeming to defy gravity
Plants are predominantly affected by gravity. Growing in the opposite direction and maintaining verticality, so as to draw water up, away from gravity. Therefore the Omega Garden cylinder needs to be in constant motion. One revolution an hour, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. If the garden stops turning for any length of time, the plants on their sides, or inverted, will turn and grow towards the sky, regardless of where the light source is. Light sources adjacent, or even below will have no effect on this phenomenon.
The result of the constant rotation is compaction, with unusually strong growth in all directions. We call this phenomenon “ORBITROPISM”. For example, basil with stalks more like bamboo than basil. Tomatoes and peppers standing straight up without hanging or sagging, and holding firm throughout their rotation. Seeming to defy gravity
