CARBON DIOXIDE: Crowded Cymbidium Plants

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by Robert M. [Bert] Hamilton (Compiler)

Originally published in The Orchid Doctor in 1980 and 1988

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If plants are crowded too closely together, in the daytime when they consume much more carbon dioxide than they release, then the carbon dioxide level drops rapidly, gentle air movement then is essential. AU79-37
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