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Selectively breeding for mineral tolerance?

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Selectively breeding for mineral tolerance?#347464

By k_sze -  Wed Jan 08, 2020 4:16 am
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- Wed Jan 08, 2020 4:16 am #347464

Given that it is possible to selectively breed VFT to create different cultivars of varying appearances, has anybody thought about selectively breeding VFT to increase mineral tolerance so that growers don't need to rely on RO/distilled water/rain water?

Re: Selectively breeding for mineral tolerance?#347466

By Artchic528 -  Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:51 am
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- Wed Jan 08, 2020 5:51 am #347466

I highly doubt this would work. Flytraps evolved to grow in low nutrient soils and are so highly specialized at what they do to survive around there low nutrient conditions (catching prey) that any other way to grow them would be impossible to do.

Besides, getting distilled water isn't that difficult and flytraps practically grow themselves anyways that there really isn't a need for such a thing as "mineral tolerance".

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