Anyone do any "twin studies"?

[Ray]

ES gave a good response, but don’t forget that your plant, having lived in bark, will now need to grow an entirely new root system that is optimized for the S/H conditions.

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by Ray

ES gave a good response, but don’t forget that your plant, having lived in bark, will now need to grow an entirely new root system that is optimized for the S/H conditions.

Luckily for the integrity of this study, the plant arrived to me in sphagnum. I'm not sure if that is more similar to S/H conditions or bark, but it will at least be "different" for both root systems.

[tmoney]

yes, we have a couple of these going now, though admittedly our terrarium (which i the variable for one particular comparison) is a total piece of crap and not set up well so its not a valid study.

a new one for this year is 2 fdk after darks which came to us nearly identical but from different nurseries. this year we put one in s/h and kept the other in our normal media. we water our s/h plant the same as our others (even down to soaking the whole media for 15 minutes a week, same bottle of watering fert solution, and they live right next to each other). well, that will be controlled, but we only repotted them and havent started watering them yet!

our seedlings have many comparisons with 2 groups of compots placed in 2 different locations in the room, but all other conditions the same (including number of plants per pot, size of pot, spacing, etc.). not seeing much difference in any of our trials, but only 6 months going at most.