[RobbieG83]

heres a photo of a pea seed i am growing 'out of soil'!






im happy with the current results as its only been in the pot 72 hours

[DD.]

What are your arrangements for nutrients & light?

[JayG]

So now it's a nude model, albeit a globally famous one, what is going to happen to it next?    

[RobbieG83]

at the moment it is simply sunlight from my kitchen window (south facing) and good old severn trent tap water

And as for what next...
... I'm going to try and grow it as close as i can to full size in no soil its currently in shredded tissue paper the rough high school style tissue paper (only because it doesnt disintegrate like your leading brands

[DD.]

Nutrients?

The object of the exercise?

[arugula]

Why?

[RobbieG83]

there are no nutrients and the object is really just to be able to study the root system more than anything (i have just bought a book on botany) and i'm going to eventually dissect it and look at it under a microscope (although that depends on how well it grows)

[arugula]

OK, that's interesting. Would you conduct a control experiment by growing one in soil and perhaps one in nutrient gel to observe differences?

[RobbieG83]

i have already i have on in ordinary general purpose compost (which hasn't shown signs of germination yet!) and one in vermiculite (which is slightly smaller than the picture)

[arugula]

That's great then. You'll let us know the results, won't you?

[Mr Rotavator]

I hope these are all Birds Eye peas so this experiment is a fair test.