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- From: Bill Scheffler <pureprairie AT gmail.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett
- Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:00:50 -0600
Thanks Bill,
My understanding is that available minerals optimize sugar production creating
the buffer that I referred to.
Bill
Minerals play less of a role than energy balance. Sugar is raw energy to the plant. What we harvest is surplus to respiration, which consumes sugar. As Mike notes, it is low in the morning after the plant respires all night with no photosynthesis. It rises during the day as photosynthesis creates more reserves. Other metabolic processes are important, but these two are primary. So the variation is quite normal, though less in C4 plants, like maize.
Bill
Does the sugar content of our veggies vary from morning to afternoon,
like our hay crops? The sugar in hay is higher in the afternoons, so we
try to cut at least later in the morning to capture that higher sugar.
Mike
Hi Mike,
I'm new to the list.
The more mineralized a plant is, the less the variation, with calcium
being the lead.
Bill Scheffler
Chicago area
pureprairiefarm.com
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Allan.Balliett, 02/18/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Marty Kraft, 02/18/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
BarbaraJ, 02/18/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett, Allan.Balliett, 02/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
BarbaraJ, 02/18/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Marty Kraft, 02/18/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 02/18/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Bill Shoemaker, 02/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Mike Rock, 02/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
William H Shoemaker, 02/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Bill Scheffler, 02/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett, William H Shoemaker, 02/19/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett, Bill Scheffler, 02/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Bill Scheffler, 02/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
William H Shoemaker, 02/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Mike Rock, 02/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Bill Shoemaker, 02/19/2010
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Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett,
Allan.Balliett, 02/18/2010
- Re: [Market-farming] article by Allan Balliett, Bill Scheffler, 02/19/2010
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