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Post by darrenabbey on May 18, 2015 15:32:40 GMT -5
I would say that anything could be grown in vertical mode. Different varieties of any given crop would do better than others and breeding could improve them for the mode of growth.
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Post by blueadzuki on May 18, 2015 18:39:04 GMT -5
Most things I suppose. Though, in the case of any crop that is wind pollinated (corn and I suppose most of the other grains) you'd probably need to come up with alternate methods of pollination (maybe set the plants in frames that can be mechanically agitated).
Actually, if you could work out a way to pull it off, growing grain that way could be a very efficient method of doing crosses. You'd put you pollen donors on the top level, your recipients on the lower ones, and then just let gravity do the rest. Heck if you wanted to get really fancy you could use the fact that the plants in a vertical setup are basically in big pots to rotate varieties you wanted to cross in and out. Instead of doing maybe 2, 3, 4, or so field wide crosses in a year, you could theoretically do hundreds.
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