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Old 03-23-2009, 06:00 AM   #10 (permalink)
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at the end of the roots is an area called the mychorrizza (lol, something moderately close to that) it's like tiny tiny hair like roots, they only extend a few mm's from the root but increase the surface area by 1000-10,000x, this is where most transfer of nutes etc takes place. if a plant is root bound there is nowhere for nutrient transfer to take place, all the space is taken up. or something like that.
thanks for finding this slunt, I hadn't seen it.
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