Fascinating exploration of growing plants on Mars! The possibilities for future space farming are endless. 🌱🚀

Vivax would prob be the best. or red margin these are the most vigorous especially red margin but vivax get auite a bit bigger. If u want a aursulcata go with spectabilis since spectabilis is the most hardy type of yellow groove

Main issues you have on Mars are less the temperature and the CO2 levels and more the lack of magnetic field, as well as just how thin the atmosphere is. These are interrelated, of course, as a lack of magnetic field means the solar wind scours off Mars' atmosphere faster than it could be replaced. Terraforming efforts would need to address this problem before any other-- though there would also be the matter of toxins in the Martian soil that would need to be sequestered and removed, such as perchlorates.

First come the bamboo poles, quickly followed by discount carpet stores 😬😬🌿🌿

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I've had that in me eye 😬

I think the authors of this kind research are trying to demonstrate that such mosses could in fact withstand the Martian conditions, not grow in them. In some research, though by no means all, they do make it clear that the mosses do not actively grow in the conditions and do go into a dormancy, but then do grow if, and only if, the favorable conditions returned allowing the moss to revive itself. I think this is the point more than what is being pointed to by people who have just taken the fact that the moss can withstand conditions in a state of dormancy and have said "oh well therefore the moss can grow on Mars". Enduring in a dormant state and actively growing are major differences where life is concerned, with any organism failing to grow eventually dying no matter how long it can stay dormant. The fact such organisms do go dormant in such conditions in the first place tells us more about how really inhospitable Mars will be to Earth life; even the most hardiest of organisms will go dormant pretty much as long as they can do in what are considered the normal conditions there. Observing any change to that independent of restoring Earth conditions is the more interesting next step and as with tardigrades it has not been demonstrated.

We've got a bit like that too Alan 🙂 Check your doggie for ticks if he went in the long grass, ours were always getting them when the grass was long 😬😬🌿🌿

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Lovely flowers ! 💖

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I have been looking for motherwort Lycopus cardiacus? Supposed to be anti spasmodic and a heart tonic. I am in Cornwall.

Moss, lichens and tardigrades!

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This is the kind of thinking we need. See if we can seed other planets with organisms other than humans. Organisms that are more adaptable, more resilient, and less stupid.

Not sure what you were aiming at there .. but the earth went from anaerobic to an oxygen atmosphere.. but if you putting in a plug for the global warming cow fart hoax… you would think that the planet would be warmer with all that co2.

Is the CO2 toxicity based on the percentage of the atmosphere, or on the partial pressure of the gas? Even though Mars has 95% CO2, it is only 15 times higher than the CO2 partial pressure on Earth. So what could be done to test that, is to try to grow this moss in a vacuum chamber, where the CO2 level is 5%, but the pressure is 100 mb. There should of course be sufficient water there as well, to make sure the moss doesn't dry out.

There are too many other factors of soil chemistry, alone. it would be a good experiment, though

Cor, that much CO2 and no greenhouse effect 🤔 Reckon Tardigrades would give it a go 😁😁🌿🌿

Pappus got a brand new goat 😁🌿

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I've got some seeds for you when you come down Alan 🙂🌿

do the rhizoids store water or just conduct it

yes is probably advantageous to break up easily. most succulents have evolved fragile limb joints for this

You sure about the rainfall Alan? Done nothing but rain all winter down here, had to cover my outside cactus bed for the first time. CO2 has risen by 0.02% in the past 200 years but it's been thousands of times higher in the past when plants grew huge like the coal measure ferns the size of trees. Might be a factor, but nitrogen fixation by thunderstorms is a more likely culprit in the short term, grass grows mental 4 days after a thunderstorm. We tend to notice it when we've got 3 acres to cut 😬😁

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We've got some of that 😬

Wot no epilobium😮

Very nice Alan 🙂🪴

The dry seed pods makes a nice sleepy tea

Flowers are very interesting close up Alan 🙂🙂🪴🪴

This is amazing

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2:55 Tansy Leaved Phacelia

Plant at 2:15 is Buckwheat

Epilobium parviflorum Small flower willow herb powerful curing ability of mens genitalia from shrinking prostate to healing forth stage cancer of mans genitalia experienced on several cases documented by medical doctors as miracle never seen before and if not experienced actual visual and in their practices would never believed

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Think you'm right with seed mix Alan, maybe someone has lobbed a butterfly mix in. That one with the fluffy buds has got leaves a bit like feverfew but we can't ID it either. The wheat is a modern one, very short so probably in with the mix. We sowed loads of cornflowers, only a few came up 😁

Amazing flower

I've seen them go red a lot, esp on the tops of walls 🙂🙂

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Beautiful sharing

Really nice flowers

Dear come my home

He likes that 🙂

Mrs Zigs found a big one in her flower bed today 😬

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Beautiful 🌻☀️🌻🇳🇴🇳🇴