Coconut water is rich in potassium, various minerals and antioxidants, but what interest us is that it is rich in cytokinin, an hormone essential to the development of plants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokinin
I have prepared three different media.
One with 3% coconut water, a second one with 7% and a third one with 11%.
In each medium I added NAA and IBA too, which are auxins, an other hormone "family"essential to the development of plants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxin
I decided to do my tests with some Angraecum magdalenae's seedlings.
I have transplanted some seedlings in two flasks of each media.
I'll give them the same conditions, light and temperatures, and I'll see in the next weeks, months, the differences.
I shall try, if it is significant, to post photos of the flasks weeks after weeks
To know if the packaged coconut water is as effective as the water from fresh green coconut, I have prepared a 4th media, with fresh coconut water in the same % than the 3rd media, in which I have transplanted A.magdalenae's seedlings too.
Each ice-cube is made with 15ml of coconut water.
Cool, I'll be looking forward to seeing the results! No negative control (i.e. no coconut water)? I'm not sure if you have seen this paper, but you might be interested in it:
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https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/98fa/8a00d274912ccfcb6456b2ea842952b0ebc8.pdf
Phytohormone concentration changes with the different stages of the Coconut maturation.
Hey Gilles, what were your findings from this experiment? Anything conclusive?
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