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Related: About this forumNASA encouraging everyone to grow chile plants
https://www.krqe.com/news/space-news/nasa-encouraging-everyone-to-grow-chile-plants-after-space-experiment/]Theres a link to get seeds. Pretty cool.
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) Months after growing green and red chile on the International Space Station (ISS), the projects organizers said they are still seeing success. Engineer and Plant Scientist Jacob Torres explained how the experiment is working out.
Torres said they found the crop very adaptable but growing plants in space takes longer, which can be a setback. He also explained that instead of growing straight up, the plants grew into a sphere, making the physiology of the plant unique.
Now, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has decided to fund a new project aimed at growing chile around the world to show that the crop can adapt to many different environments as well as space.
The team working with NASA will send chile seeds for you to grow the crop, and Torres said that even though the crop is usually grown in New Mexico, they also want New Mexicans to take part. Schools are also welcome to grow the plant in their classrooms. As of July 1, 2022, there have been 110 entries for the Space Chile Grow a Pepper Plant Challenge.
Torres said they found the crop very adaptable but growing plants in space takes longer, which can be a setback. He also explained that instead of growing straight up, the plants grew into a sphere, making the physiology of the plant unique.
Now, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has decided to fund a new project aimed at growing chile around the world to show that the crop can adapt to many different environments as well as space.
The team working with NASA will send chile seeds for you to grow the crop, and Torres said that even though the crop is usually grown in New Mexico, they also want New Mexicans to take part. Schools are also welcome to grow the plant in their classrooms. As of July 1, 2022, there have been 110 entries for the Space Chile Grow a Pepper Plant Challenge.
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NASA encouraging everyone to grow chile plants (Original Post)
Ponietz
Aug 2022
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dweller
(25,113 posts)1. The plants
grew into a sphere
🤔
Interesting
✌🏻
WheelWalker
(9,201 posts)2. Absent gravity, no negative geotrophism.
dweller
(25,113 posts)3. Had to look that up
Geotropism, phototropism etc
doesnt explain spherical growth
But growth into a sphere is not clear also
circular? Globular ?
🤔
✌🏻
Ponietz
(3,322 posts)5. So, no apical dominance then?
Indoor cannabis growers basically wrestle against this tendency with low resistance training or deal with it drastically with pruning. Its a ridiculous idea but space cannabis may have a market. Yet Bransons Private Stash might make a good sci-fi comic or anime.
More on the experiment: [link:https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-second-pepper-harvest-sets-record-on-space-station
BigmanPigman
(52,318 posts)4. My red peppers are finally getting ripe and they're 6 months old!
I doubt my gardening expertise would be helpful to science.
NJCher
(38,004 posts)6. just sent this
to my science teachers at the schools where I have gardens.
Thanks, Ponietz!