How do plants grown outside compare to those grown inside under fluorescent lamps?
Preliminary results suggest that my artificial lighting system grows plants at about the same rate that they grow outside against an east-facing wall that limits their exposure to morning sun only. The outside growth rate for plants against a south-facing wall painted white is twice what it is under my fluorescent system. What does a super close-up photograph of a trigger hair look like? The most interesting feature of this image is that the ball joint near the hair’s base is similar to the ball joint connecting a spider’s leg to its body. The surface of the inside of the trap is covered with tiny polyps barely 0.001-inch in diameter. Magnified 1000 times they look like mushroom cap shaped raspberries. I’ve photographed these polyps from many angles and they do not appear to be connected to the leaf by a stem. Rather, they seem to sit directly on the leaf’s surface. How many times can one trap be fed? Most references claim that after four feeds the typical trap will die. How does the t
