What Do Plants Do With The Excess CO2 and heat? Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Effect. Ep 11 Plantmas

Carbon Dioxide Fertilization Effect is a very real phenomenon we are experiencing. It’s causing a greener earth in the face of rising temperature & CO2 levels. This is because carbon is an essential plant nutrient that is kept present in higher then ever quantities. This is episode 11 of Plantmas the search for 17 essential plant nutrients.

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Ashley is a soil scientist who has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science. 
Some of Ashley’s interests are YouTube, in which she posts informative videos about plants and gardening. The focus of Ashley’s YouTube channel is to bring science to gardening in a way that is informative but also helpful to others learning to garden. She also talks about the importance of having your own garden and the joys of gardening indoors. Ashley continues to study plants in her free time and hopes to expand her YouTube channel as well as her reach to up and coming gardeners.

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[infiniteadam]

Im in zone 9b and its still like a mild summer here...well our summers are usually super hot but this year was mild. I actually planted some tomatoes about a month ago and they are fruiting, I planted some Khorasan wheat just 2 weeks ago and that is already 8 inches tall! Yhe rain finally slowed down a bit, it was a very rainy year...this year I have been studying soil and am really starting to see the fruits of my labor, I started with this dry straight light grey sand with almost zero fertility or organic matter and now it is becoming more soil like, I am so happy to be doing my part to capture carbon and build life in what little soil I have! Thank You so so much for the advice and knowledge, I didn't go to school for any of this but it has become my passion and it has helped me with my depression and anxiety immensely. I realised the other day when I rescued 3 roses and was talking to them as I prepared their new home, that these plants are like my children I love them and I want them to grow up to be all that they want to be, so my love for them is what motivates me to learn all I can so that I can be a good parent and take care of all their needs. I keep seeing how much that translates to my own life and hopefully I can relearn how to love myself and do the same for me. Taking care to create healthy soil is much like taking care of our own microbiome so I am learning more about that as well! Wish me luck, I sure hope I get through this process and grow into all I want to be!

[danielhowell]

Great video! Fellow zone 3 gardener and soil scientist here. Just started looking into greening effect and increased water use efficiency globally, super interesting. Read an article recently about the reduced nutrient concentration under high CO2, I wonder if foliar fertilizers will be effective in helping with this. I think its probably more of a concern in weathered soil with low fertility to begin with, but will be interesting to see how that plays out.

[GardeningInCanada]

Hello plant people! I am hoping to get to comment this weekend! This week has been crazy busy for me!

[chesterhobbs]

In short, another great one. Following you just keeps me stocking up on good, usable information.

[MARILYNANDERSON]

Very important information. Thanks for helping us understand.

[theyweredeadwhenigotthere]

Been banging out great content lately! I truly appreciate your time & effort!!! Ive always wondered how dangerous and how propable getting infected by bad pathogens with something that natural organic fertilizers like bat guano and chicken manure have? Cant the same point be made about bagged fungi like mycorrhizae? Cant spores enter the lungs and potentially do harm? I have a beard and fear even wearing a mask would not help me but Im not sure?! Id love your take on the subject when you have time and if its a worthy topic. 👍🙏👏🌱⛄

[waspjournals]

Zone 10, my growing season is from always to always lol thank you for this unbiased perspective on CO2 fertilization

[nickklassen]

Zone 2b here wouldn't mind a zone upgrade!

[Lochness]

I guess you have to weigh a bunch of different factors. Increased evapotranspiration due to warmer temperatures, decreased water loss from plants due to higher CO2 concentrations, and changes in precipitation patterns (eastern North America is expected to get wetter for the most part, the Great Plains and inland Cordillera region might get less).

[patkonelectric]

I remember back in the 80's reading Omni magazine (did have the internet back them) an article claiming that if we increase the CO2 deserts will turn into forests. Go figure.

[Lochness]

Here in zone 6 southern ON the soil is still not really frozen. It's -4C but we got some snow that seems to have insulated it? Or maybe it just has some thermal mass from the last couple days when it was warmer? I grabbed some snow off the ground and the snow was really wet, I measured the ground temperature at shallow depth and it was around 3C. The grass is still green in some parts of the lawn (especially under the drip line of my Colorado Blue Spruce??). I sowed some winter rye in mid-November and that was still early enough to get seedlings. I even got some fava beans that sprouted in mid-December.

Anyways, we don't really get consistent ground freezes here anymore. We might get some ground freeze for a week or two when an Arctic air mass moves in, but if the Arctic air mass retreats, the ground is still prone to thawing, even in the middle of winter.

I'm currently experimenting to see how long various cold tolerant plants can hold up here. So far I'm not seeing much growth from anything once temperatures are below 10C, even if the ground is thawed and the air is above 0C. But there's still quite a lot that's still alive with minimal frost damage, including perpetual spinach, kohlrabi, younger fava bean plants, bok choy, mustard greens, komatsuna, tatsoi, carrot and parsley greens, rutabaga, broccoli, turnips, salsify, sage and sorrel. Chives, mint and peas got frost damaged, but scallions are still half alive. Swiss chard is half alive too.

[katipohl]

There is a bacteria in all oceans which fixes carbondioxide by a special biochemical pathway (research from University of Marburg). Max Planck published about it fixing gigatons of carbondioxide yearly.

[alberta]

I'm not worried about short growing season here in AZ. 😆

[endoftherope]

I've heard it said by biologists that global warming is really global greening but I don't know I'm just a farmer what do you think

[Lochness]

Do you know what was the cause of reduced greening in certain areas in your "global greening map"? Although the Western US Montane region, Sahel, South Africa, Turkey, Australia and many other semi-arid regions seem to have gotten greener, it seems much of the boreal forest has gotten less green (especially in Eastern Siberia, Alaska, Yukon and the "Taiga Plains" of the Northwest Territories and northern Alberta.

Looks like around Angola and the African Great Lakes Region, as well as northern Argentina and Kazakhstan, have also gotten less green. These are mostly semi-arid savannah/pampas and semi-arid steppe biomes.

Could changes in agricultural practices also have been a factor? Increased use of fertilizers, irrigation using river and ground water?

[victormagdalenothecomptonf]

I like your channel bi been learning been learning alot. & Your also pretty

[isoalma]

Show us what's inside mars hydro😉😉😉

[buckbeaksgarden]

Yes carbon tax credits for us gardeners!

[SzkockiOgrodnik]

I guess if you in Canada global warming is a good think, however, not sure if thats the case in the middle east where the driught damaged a whole ancient forrwst habitat, of the wildfire in Australia, permafrost melting in Siberia relasinh hell lots of metane to the atmosfrere (which is 25time worst the C02) not to mention landslides and floods in Europe

[flutescope]

I find it interesting that you have this sober view on carbon dioxide and its role in plant physiology and ecology and at the same time you are concerned about the environmental impact of shipping coir from the tropics. And I don't mean it in a scornful way or anything like that. I share your view, but I don't care a bit about getting my peat moss all the way from Canada. We're using the stuff for things that are worth it and supporting an industry somewhere. So many morons are burning fuel whimsically and they're free to do so, I'm not accepting any guilt from getting a bale of peat that lasts me years. The world would be a worse place without those imports and the environment would look pretty much the same.