If i had a pot with 100g of soil, and grow a 20g plant, will i have less soil?
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Interestingly enough, most of the matter comes from the carbon in the air. Through photosynthesis the plant splits the CO2 molecules, keeps the Carbon as a building block and throws out the O2 for us to breathe.
It absorbs carbon dioxide from the air and converts it to oxygen and glucose (sugar basically) through a process called photosynthesis. Basically all of the plant’s mass is from carbon in the atmosphere and water in the soil (and a tiny portion of minerals and micronutrients that are dissolved in the water in the soil)
Slightly less soil, but most of the plant is made up of carbon, from the carbon dioxide it breathes. Water is also part of the weight and can be considerable
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