Low and zero gravity can affect how roots spread/dig and later can cause issues with how water and nutrients circulate through the stalk since they evolved to circulate with Earth level gravity. Space station experiments have proven it’s not impossible, the plants can adapt, they’re just a bit different. Trees would probably struggle, most crops would be fine. What’s really difficult is pollination. You’d probably have to hand pollinate, set up a wind system in your greenhouse, or get self-pollinaters. Bees would struggle to adapt because low gravity would mess with their flight, their dance communication, and probably their honeycomb structure and larval development.
Kudzu isn’t as virulent as people think. It looks like it eats entire forests when seen from the highway, but it’s actually only covering the trees on the edge.
How would the moons gravity affect the growth of crops?
That’s what you don’t get from this simulation.
My uneducated guess is that 1/6th gravity would still be a great deal more like earth than 0 gravity.
Low and zero gravity can affect how roots spread/dig and later can cause issues with how water and nutrients circulate through the stalk since they evolved to circulate with Earth level gravity. Space station experiments have proven it’s not impossible, the plants can adapt, they’re just a bit different. Trees would probably struggle, most crops would be fine. What’s really difficult is pollination. You’d probably have to hand pollinate, set up a wind system in your greenhouse, or get self-pollinaters. Bees would struggle to adapt because low gravity would mess with their flight, their dance communication, and probably their honeycomb structure and larval development.
I imagine they would grow taller, possibly faster
That makes me think that we shouldn’t bring potatoes there. They’ll become too strong, unstoppable.
We will send Irish astronauts to tame the tuber threat
This made me ask “has there ever been such a thing?”
The answer is apparently “not yet,” but Dr. Norah Patten will potentially be the first, sometime within a year or so.
For sure don’t bring kudzu.
Kudzu isn’t as virulent as people think. It looks like it eats entire forests when seen from the highway, but it’s actually only covering the trees on the edge.