Sentences with phrase «like plant stems»

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Cut off and discard any fennel stems and fronds (the green, thread - like tops of the plant).

These physical barriers need to stay around the plants until (like peppers and tomatoes), the stems become somewhat thick and woody.

Over wintering is a fickle affair but you can improve your chances of success by: - Growing species that are more cold tolerate like Pubescens - Improving climatic conditions by bring plants indoors - Removing ripe pods before over wintering - Cutting back woody stems and removing dead or diseased growth to keep pest & disease at bay - Controlling water regimes If your attempts at over wintering are littered with more failures than success all is not lost.

The water in the vase travels up the stem of the flower like a drinking straw and is distributed to all of the parts of the plant that now need water.

Also, the stems of DNQX - treated plants grew twice as fast as those of untreated plants — like seedlings pushing through the soil.

Modern insects like the sawfly deposit their eggs inside a plant's leaf or stem so that the larvae will have plant cells to feed on when they hatch.

The team used a bidirectional freezing technique that they previously developed to assemble a new type of biomimetic graphene aerogel that had an architecture like that of the plant's stem.

«These are actually siliceous replacements of roots and stems of plants like petrified wood,» Sharp says.

They look more like plants than animals, with branches, stems, and leaflike structures.

Still, he says, the whole plant has a distinct structure that includes a root - like holdfast, a stem, and blades.

«We investigated whether coiling wire around the lower part of the plant stems to reduce the capacity of xylem to transport water to the shoot would result in low shoot moisture conditions and increase the sugar concentration of fruit like salt and water stresses,» the authors said.

«Intriguingly, the teosinte plants grown under past conditions exhibit characteristics more like corn: a single main stem topped by a single tassel, a few, very short branches tipped by female ears and synchronous seed maturation.

As many plants take up a cylinder - like shape, the most important axis becomes the apical - basal (shoot - root) axis, i.e. the apical (top part) develops into shoots, containing flowers, stems and leaves, and the basal (bottom part) grows into roots.

The fastest - growing plant on earth, bamboo can shoot up as much as three feet in a single day, and moso stems can reach 75 feet high and seven inches across — making Chinese bamboo farms feel more like forests than fields.

Under the water, the plant's stems hold tiny bags, or bladders, that look like tilted teardrops.

Using processes like steam distillation or cold - pressing (in the case of citrus fruits), we harness these compounds from the roots, leaves, stems, bark, fruit, flowers, and rinds of plants and pass their protective powers along.

No special scissors needed for tender plants like basil, just pinch off the tops of the stems with your fingers (being careful not to tug on the plant and dislodge the roots).

Tomato plants can grow up to six feet (2 m) tall and half as wide, producing a vine - like stem with lobed, hairy leaves that wrap around other plants to support the weight of its fleshy fruit.

The nettle plant's sting doesn't come from spikes like a thistle, but hundreds of tiny, hollow hairs lining the stems and undersides of the leaves.

Also I personally hate when people tout a product with fancy ingredients and you have no idea what it means, like «Lilac Plant Stem Cells».

This algae has long central stems with leaf - like organs growing from the stems, and small, spherical gas bladders that are filled with nitrogen and enable the plant to float.

Otherworldly in color and form with towering stems and spindly tendrils, these predatory animals are easily confused for flowering, alien - like plants.

Not all virtual power plants work exactly like Stem's aggregated network of buildings, which use batteries and energy management systems.

The third model of virtual power plants is, like Stem's approach, a mixed bag of assets such as battery storage, solar power, and energy efficiency systems that both reduce consumption and supply clean power in targeted ways.

Neonicotinoids have been linked to colony collapse in the past; the incredibly effective pesticide works by spreading throughout the seeds and stems of treated plants; making its way into nectar and pollen supplies, where it is picked up by pollinators like bees; and, finally, attacking the nervous system of the exposed insects.

Like hemp, flax fibres need to be separated from the pithy core of the plants stem.

To get back to the criminal case that stems from what's the classic case is someone will get one of those RED cards, and they will get like a 36 plant RED card.

The Beaucarnea recurvata or pony tail palm is a striking, structural plant with a bulb - like base that holds on to water and slender leaves that cascade around the stem.