Wet hair smashes against the scalp, dry hair is frizzy.
toshgiles on
My tropical plants that I have in air tight containers do this, which is pretty cool. They also do it in water and soil but are harder to see.
knottycams on
Still fluffy in water just can’t see it
chickswhorip on
It’s probably humid in the jar, and the “ hairs “ on the root is to capture moisture from the air?
benbentheben on
Same thing happened to my turnips in the fridge. They start growing little fuzzy roots after a few weeks in a ziplock bag.
Vast_Chipmunk9210 on
Why do you keep it in a closed jar with no water? I’ve propagated plants but I’ve never seen/heard of this method?
PescaTurian on
I see a lot of people saying it’s either that the water ones are also hairy and you just can’t see it in the water, or that it “fluffs up” to get more moisture out of the air, but on the majority of plants, the white hairs you see on the roots are actually mycelia, aka fungus “roots”! Plants and most fungi have a symbiotic relationship, and in dirt, air and water the mycelia help turn the nutrients into versions of the nutrients that the plant can actually absorb properly, and in dirt with multiple plants, the mycelia will turn into a mycelium network, spanning across multiple plants and fungi, transferring nutrients to all the plants, and even having a sort of communication network, so that way they can send extra nutrients to the plants in the most need of it! Mycelium networks can span an entire forest! Also, the kinds of roots that plants grow in the air, dirt and water are all physically different, which is why sometimes they take a while to acclimate to the dirt after growing in water, cuz they have to physically change the kind of root it is from a water-root to a dirt-root!
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Oh my god i don’t fucking care
Mold?
Root hairs go limp and cling together when wet.
Wet hair smashes against the scalp, dry hair is frizzy.
My tropical plants that I have in air tight containers do this, which is pretty cool. They also do it in water and soil but are harder to see.
Still fluffy in water just can’t see it
It’s probably humid in the jar, and the “ hairs “ on the root is to capture moisture from the air?
Same thing happened to my turnips in the fridge. They start growing little fuzzy roots after a few weeks in a ziplock bag.
Why do you keep it in a closed jar with no water? I’ve propagated plants but I’ve never seen/heard of this method?
I see a lot of people saying it’s either that the water ones are also hairy and you just can’t see it in the water, or that it “fluffs up” to get more moisture out of the air, but on the majority of plants, the white hairs you see on the roots are actually mycelia, aka fungus “roots”! Plants and most fungi have a symbiotic relationship, and in dirt, air and water the mycelia help turn the nutrients into versions of the nutrients that the plant can actually absorb properly, and in dirt with multiple plants, the mycelia will turn into a mycelium network, spanning across multiple plants and fungi, transferring nutrients to all the plants, and even having a sort of communication network, so that way they can send extra nutrients to the plants in the most need of it! Mycelium networks can span an entire forest! Also, the kinds of roots that plants grow in the air, dirt and water are all physically different, which is why sometimes they take a while to acclimate to the dirt after growing in water, cuz they have to physically change the kind of root it is from a water-root to a dirt-root!