{"id":519,"date":"2012-07-03T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T02:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2012-07-04T13:11:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T20:11:06","slug":"pot-plants-stunt-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatedguesswork.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Pot Plants, Stunt Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the big Book of Duh:<\/p>\n

BBC reports<\/a> on a scientific study presented at the Society for Experimental Biology during their meeting in Salzburg, Austria that a researcher with the unlikely name of Hendrik Poorter has used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to discover the following startling truth:<\/p>\n

Plants in bigger pots grow bigger than plants in smaller pots<\/strong><\/p>\n

Umm…<\/p>\n

Did this really need the use of million-dollar pieces of equipment to prove this? Couldn’t they have just asked anyone in the Garden section of Home Depot? Or any gardener at all? I understand that Science insists upon experimental verification rather than listening to old-wives’ tales, but… Really? This is what biologists do today?<\/p>\n

The surprising fact is that the BBC ran this as a straight news story. After all, the British are known as avid gardeners.<\/p>\n

Okay, the researcher actually put his conclusion in a more scientific form:<\/p>\n

“For every species we looked at, pot size was the factor limiting its growth.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can hardly wait for the next big breakthrough. Perhaps we’ll learn that plants which aren’t watered are more likely to die. Or that when it rains, things get wet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the big Book of Duh: BBC reports on a scientific study presented at the Society for Experimental Biology during their meeting in Salzburg, Austria that a researcher with the unlikely name of Hendrik Poorter has used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to discover the following startling truth: Plants in bigger pots grow bigger than plants … <\/p>\n

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