The 4 Types of Plant Roots

This video is an excerpt from my conversation with Robert Pavlis about his new book: Plant Science for Gardeners.

Robert's published books:
Garden Myths, Soil Science for Gardeners and Building Natural Ponds
Blogs: Garden Myths and Garden Fundamentals
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Owner of Aspen Grove Gardens

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[drewsenthused]

Plant growth is so cool, never realized that about a nail in a tree.

[moonovermiami]

Extremely enlightening !
Always wondered about all these differences discussed. Always worried if I risk killing the plant if I moved a large plant and damaged roots. Thank you!!

[lindataylor]

Two questions:
1. I’ve heard it said that leaf mould is good because the leaves have a lot of minerals in them since tree roots go down deep enough to get these minerals. Not really true? Minerals are coming from the top 6-12 inches
2. In the experiment where a tree was grown in a pot for 10 years and the soil weighed almost the same at the end how do you account for the minerals taken out. Negligible weight for the minerals or just replaced with carbon?

[jangrouwstra]

Interesting topic. I also wonder whether a specific root system can be the result of climate conditions.
Honeyberries have a very shallow root system. It makes them way easier to move place if needed, so that's what I like about them, since I've been moving places a few times, but I wonder whether their shallow root system has anything to do with them being arctic. They only know very northern conditions, and I was thinking, maybe deep roots aren't helping that type of bush in those conditions.

[antiowarr]

This was a very good content, I guess it's all good but not every thing can keep my attention for long...lol lol