Re: Product pushers

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"Don Staples" <dstaples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:13un9o1pfsf0555@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Not that it will do much good explaining it.

Auxin; cytokinin; ethylene; gibberellin; abscisic acid. These five chemicals, in extremely minute amounts, regulate the growth of trees. They are termed growth regulators. They regulate growth. Growth regulator is an tree term. Hormone is an animal term. Heal is an animal term. Trees seal and not heal wounds. Fertilizer is a plant term as well.

Where do babies come from? Believe it or not, it was only a short time ago when people thought females were born with small incomplete babies inside. When the male added the "magic" ingredients, a baby grew. Farmers knew that substances called fertilizers made plants grow. So, grow is grow, they thought, and fertilizers must be male ingredients. Until this day people say the male fertilizes the female. (Is milk from the mother a fertilizer? It surely makes the baby grow.) Fertilizer is a plant term that has made its way into animal terms. Fertilizers add elements essential for healthy growth. Fertilizers do not add an energy source. Maybe when some people learn where babies come from the fertilizer myth will go away. Maybe! Just maybe.

In other words. Plant people have used more animal terms than animal people have used plant terms. Here are only a few examples: Hormones are produced by ductless glands. Growth regulators are produced by many plant cells. Babies start when a swimming sperm connects with an egg in the fallopian tube of animals. Fertilizer is a substance that promotes growth. Before we knew where babies came from, we thought that materials deposited by males stimulated growth of a very small already-formed individual. Time to stop borrowing terms! Fertilizers and babies. Hormones and growth regulators.

Back to growth regulators. Why by making trees grow faster does not increase the quality of the wood. When cambial cells produce many new cells very rapidly, the cells seldom mature in the axial plane. Gibberellin can only work so fast. Rapid growth usually results in wider growth increments that have many shorter cells. When cells mature at their normal rate and time, they elongate. We do not know, but we believe, that growth regulators, and especially gibberellin, can only work so fast. They found that out quick when they tried to process very fast growing trees for pulp.

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Sincerely,
John A. Keslick, Jr.
Consulting con artist> http://home.ccil.org/~treeman
and www.treedictionary.com
Beware of so-called tree experts who do not understand tree biology.
Storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions keep reminding us that we are not the boss.


In other words, when your "expertise" does not hold water, you spin off more bull shit. You are not a forester, or an expert in any field conceivable.

Ok, Don Staples, where does a tree manufacture a growth hormone?


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Sincerely,
John A. Keslick, Jr.
Consulting Butter Cup
http://home.ccil.org/~treeman
and www.treedictionary.com
Beware of so-called tree experts who do not understand tree biology.
Storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions keep reminding us that we are not the boss.

It comes from Pixie dust, just like your education and expertise.

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