AboutRobin Expertise I can answer questions relating to the identification, growing and ethnobotany of native plants in the Midwest and East Coast of the United States, particularly the Great Lakes Region.
I am not so good with grasses and I cannot answer questions related to the West Coast or the deep South. Please, don't ask me about nursery ornamentals. I have no interest whatsoever in keeping up with the nursery trade.
Experience I maintain a half acre woodland garden in Michigan. I have attended many native gardening workshops and I studied field botany in college. I have taken groups on native plant walks.
Organizations Michigan Native Gardeners
Wild Ones
Education/Credentials I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology with a Biology minor.
Question Hello
This year I am doing a project on corn
Mine is about the effect of the different types of water on a corns plant growth?
Can you tell me what nutrients a corn needs from water?
Answer Well corn needs water and water is water. It's H20 and I'm not sure there's different kinds or at least I don't know what you mean by that. Most of the nutrients it gets is from the soil and it must be dissolved in water. It's the usual phosphorous, nitrogen, & etc. The real value of water is in the fact that the nutrients from the soil dissolve in it and also in the fact that it evaporates from the plant's leaves. This evaporating action causes a vacuum like reaction that draws more water up from the roots with whatever happens to be dissolved in it. Some things are more helpful and some more harmful. For example, if salt is dissolved in the water, the plant could die.
I suggest you look up plant fertilizers. There are fertilizers specially made for just about any kind of plant, including corn, with just the right amount of nutrients. That will tell you exactly what the "experts" say that corn needs and it what ratios.
