Growing Plants In A Vacuum! Does it work?!

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  • Today we are testing Basil plant growth in various environments including high carbon dioxide, high oxygen, and a complete vacuum.
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Комментарии • 2,6 тыс.

  • @TheKingofRandom
    @TheKingofRandom  4 года назад +415

    Comment what you think will happen before you see the results!

  • @shinsoujuuzou8423
    @shinsoujuuzou8423 4 года назад +1979

    I have an explanation for the co2 and o2 jars:
    for the CO2 jar :even though plants do produce more oxygen and absorb carvon dioxide to make glucose plants also NEED oxygen as like us they do cellular respiration. Since there was not enough oxygen for them to essentially breathe, the cells in the plant died. And I think that bcos the cells died, the chlorophyll in the cells which gives plants the green colour died and it got decoloured.
    For the oxgen container: even though there was no carbon dioxide for the plants to absorb and make glucose which is essentially their food, plants actually store their excess glucose in the stems and other parts of the plant in the form of starch(edit) so since it still had oxygen to breathe the cells did not die and the plant was living on its food storage from the glucose it had produced prior to the experiment
    TLDR: CO2 is for food and O2 is for breathing and like humans, plants can survive longer without food than without breath.

    • @88Timur88Bahmudov88
      @88Timur88Bahmudov88 4 года назад +92

      Right! Just wanted to comment the same thing

    • @allisonm4493
      @allisonm4493 4 года назад +59

      I was wondering if anyone was gonna mention this, cause just from the moment they said they were testing CO2 and O2 I realized what was going to happen. Can confirm. Plants need oxygen too.

    • @vitorkiguchi4670
      @vitorkiguchi4670 4 года назад +24

      Not glycogen. Glucose is stored as either starch or cellulose, with the latter having mostly a structural role, while the former are the actual energy reserves.
      Glycogen composes animal reserves.

    • @theplayermakes
      @theplayermakes 4 года назад +28

      Couldn't have explained it better myself lol... I was yelling at the screen as he was filling the CO2 and badmouthing the O2😂

    • @markinipannini
      @markinipannini 4 года назад +22

      Well by breathing oxygen it also produced some CO2 for itself

  • @drasc9058
    @drasc9058 4 года назад +474

    Actually plants do "breathe" O2 during the night when they can't do photosynthesis. That's why you can put a plant with the right amount of water into a jar/container and have it sealed with the plant still surviving.
    Also the reason why the nearly pure CO2 turned bad and the O2 one not might be that mold grows in anaerobic environments as seen in another TKOR video where they put different food items in a sealed vacuum to test if they would turn stale/moldy which to no surprise did happen to much of the food.
    Another reason could be that because of the high CO2 content some of the CO2 dissolved into the water and made it more acidic which is probably not the best growing condition for basil.

    • @boa_firebrand
      @boa_firebrand 4 года назад +11

      is that why the O2 plant lived while CO2 died?

    • @drasc9058
      @drasc9058 4 года назад +6

      @@boa_firebrand yes i assume thats one of the reasons besides the ones I edited to my previous comment

    • @NoName-kj2vf
      @NoName-kj2vf 4 года назад

      Not mad just curious why this comment has 3 likes and a reply when I commented a similar thing 10 minutes earlier and I have nothing.

    • @boa_firebrand
      @boa_firebrand 4 года назад +5

      @@NoName-kj2vf I just saw his/hers first.

    • @onionpie310
      @onionpie310 4 года назад +2

      Some comments are made to go to the top. This is one of them

  • @culthosmythos
    @culthosmythos 4 года назад +337

    I have a thought/challenge for you guys. I remember being taught once that when a bean or seed sprouts and sends out it's first roots and shoots, gravity determines which direction they grow, ie the plant "knows" to send the root down towards gravity and the shoot up away from it. SO, that being said, what would happen to the emerging plant to be if its orientation to gravity kept changing, like if it was constantly being rotated slowly- how would THAT affect its growth at all?

    • @penelopesteele8976
      @penelopesteele8976 4 года назад +12

      culthosmythos spiral plant!!!

    • @GoProXadventures
      @GoProXadventures 4 года назад +28

      Plants were sent up to the ISS to see how microgravity effects plant growth. I think you can find it on RUclips!

    • @cosxtea
      @cosxtea 4 года назад +4

      Everyone like this so they will see it

    • @sofa-lofa4241
      @sofa-lofa4241 4 года назад +8

      Nice idea, I think you can get a clear gel for starting seeds/cuttings, if a bean was grown in this medium it would work well and you would see the results clearly,
      I would like to see 4 or 5 beans sprouting whilst being spun at different speeds, timelapse would be nice too

    • @jacobharris7278
      @jacobharris7278 4 года назад +5

      They should check this out

  • @henrykeyter53
    @henrykeyter53 4 года назад +100

    My observations as a farmer: the open control obviously lost water to evaporation so that's why it wilted. The open bottle could "breathe" but had less evaporation and a higher humidity around the stem and in the bottle. Plants does well in a humid hot humidity, but so does fungus. In a cool and humid environment you can lose entire crops to funguses. The bottle with the higher oxygen content didn't surprise me either - plants breathe oxygen through the day and if you left the light on 24/7... Furthermore the fact that the CO2 plant smelled like "old grass" didn't surprise me either. Funguses can't grow in a environment with no oxygen so farmers are always using it as a trick to turn grass and corn into silage. The vacuum is also a no brainer - question is why didn't you test a plant in a pressurized environment?

    • @benishborogove2692
      @benishborogove2692 4 года назад +2

      Close, but backwards. Plants take in CO2 through the day and use the light energy to turn it into carbohydrates. At night they give off CO2 and water.

    • @cerberez
      @cerberez 4 года назад

      Great question

  • @manofculture4945
    @manofculture4945 4 года назад +387

    Comments:
    25%: common comments
    75%: plant experts

    • @TronSAHeroXYZ
      @TronSAHeroXYZ 4 года назад +2

      Yep, you're right.

    • @Proszes2812
      @Proszes2812 4 года назад +3

      Hahahahahahaha so true

    • @akari9616
      @akari9616 4 года назад +3

      70 Subscribers with some videos challenge when they said vacuum i thought they meant the ones u use to clean ur house XD

    • @akari9616
      @akari9616 4 года назад +1

      also true

    • @zacheysflip859
      @zacheysflip859 4 года назад +6

      If there’s more experts then commen comments then isn’t plant expert common and common comments rare

  • @thamires.magalhaes
    @thamires.magalhaes 4 года назад +155

    There's a pretty common misconception about plants, they do breath as well as make photosynthesis, so they need oxygen to live. Microorganisms on the soil already produce CO2 as well, so...

    • @Secr3tYT
      @Secr3tYT 4 года назад

      Those organisms produce oxygen for the roots. Co2 is for the plant body

    • @mary-janecalderon354
      @mary-janecalderon354 4 года назад +2

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    • @Secr3tYT
      @Secr3tYT 4 года назад

      Michorrizae is what theyre called. Very beneficial for roots

    • @mu11668B
      @mu11668B 4 года назад +1

      @@Secr3tYT Idk where you got that piece of information from, but nothing produces oxygen for the roots (other than the plants themselves, if the process of photosynthesis contributes any). The oxygen diffuses into the soil from the atmosphere and get absorbed by plants and micro organisms. In fact, the soil is one of the major natural CO2 producer in the carbon cycle. Moreover, if you submerge soil samples under water, then they will quickly become an oxygen-poor environment, thus micro organisms have to harvest energy from less energetic oxidation reactions, eventually ending up with a reductive environment that produces gases like methane.

  • @brandonogden3498
    @brandonogden3498 4 года назад +157

    Also: vacuum plant lost moisture due to boiling point dropping so low, causing cell death throughout.

    • @FhangMedia
      @FhangMedia 4 года назад +9

      The vacuum probably ripped the plant cells apart as well

    • @Jake12220
      @Jake12220 4 года назад +3

      Depends how strong the vacuum was. If it was a total vacuum the plant would have completely dried out. It seems like in the test it was pretty weak and the water evaporating likely would have returned it close to normal atmosphere after awhile.

    • @simedinson984
      @simedinson984 4 года назад +1

      @@Jake12220 yea the vacuum shouldnt be to bad for the amount of water if you have ever tried removing it even at like 10 mbar it takes heats of like 50 C to go at a decent rate and as you said it is a close system

  • @niagargoyle
    @niagargoyle 4 года назад +350

    Plants don’t breathe CO2; a closer analogy would be to say that they “eat” it.
    All complex life that we know of performs respiration by absorbing oxygen and expelling CO2, even plants.

    • @Vmaster005
      @Vmaster005 4 года назад +3

      Dont forget about algae, not so complex.

    • @niagargoyle
      @niagargoyle 4 года назад +3

      Vic 1 Yeah, but I needed some qualifier to exclude anaerobes.

    • @niagargoyle
      @niagargoyle 4 года назад +6

      Cyrus Antony It isn’t a perfect analogy, but it’s closer than breathing.
      The energy comes from the sun; the material comes from the carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O). The plant combines the carbon and the hydrogen (and some of the oxygen) to form carbohydrates and then expel the remaining oxygen.
      Maybe a better comparison would be herbs, spices, and condiments. It’s not necessarily nourishing, but it makes the food edible.

    • @zachcrawford5
      @zachcrawford5 4 года назад +3

      They have recently found a parasitic jellyfish that does not use respire using oxygen. I'm not trying to contradict your argument as it is the only known exception but I just thought it might be interesting to you.

    • @ahmedyasir8288
      @ahmedyasir8288 4 года назад

      More like... They cook using co2.

  • @nighthawk3045
    @nighthawk3045 4 года назад +70

    At night many plants will “eat” oxygen and put out CO2, so it makes somewhat sense why the sealed oxygen did better then the sealed CO2

    • @dreadsage1759
      @dreadsage1759 4 года назад +3

      That Onion, even if plant consume co2 throughout photosynthesis, they still need some oxygen.

    • @nighthawk3045
      @nighthawk3045 4 года назад +11

      @@ThatOnionispog actually:
      During daytime, photosynthesis is going on faster than respiration, so, normally, plants will produce oxygen during the day. However, at night, only respiration continues, so plants (like other organisms - mice - cats - dogs - people - bacteria) produce carbon dioxide and use up oxygen.

    • @everenjohn
      @everenjohn 4 года назад +4

      @@ThatOnionispog imagine not paying attention in class

    • @abheekrajeev9952
      @abheekrajeev9952 4 года назад +1

      Only during photosynthesis it takes in carbon dioxide to make food nd oxygen to breath at other times it uses oxygen as normal living things

    • @mambasvg
      @mambasvg 4 года назад +2

      not eat, plants literally breathe, they use most of the o3 they produce

  • @therealblobfish
    @therealblobfish 4 года назад +85

    The co2 around the plant can, in a way, “burn” it. The oxygen kind of acts as an air conditioner. That’s why the sealed co2 one didn’t do well.

    • @cmawhz
      @cmawhz 4 года назад +5

      co2 is acidic after all

    • @ram2504
      @ram2504 4 года назад +1

      and plant ned more oxygen then co2

    • @problemsolver3254
      @problemsolver3254 4 года назад +2

      There is only 400 in a million parts of co2 in the air so it was 200 time more co2

    • @MathewZ788
      @MathewZ788 4 года назад +3

      Yes after all co2 does trap alot of heat and is slightly acidic

    • @Unmannedair
      @Unmannedair 4 года назад +2

      No. And no to all the replies also. It's really quite simple. Plants breath just like you and me. They take in oxygen and consum it with sugar to grow and stay alive. The byproduct of this is co2 just like you. Plants only make more oxygen than they consume during the day when sunlight can power photosynthesis. That's why everyone saying that the Amazon creates most of the breathable air is demonstratively wrong. The Amazon is oxygen neutral. At night, the plants and animals consume all the extra oxygen produced during the day. Earth's primary oxygen supply comes from diatoms in the ocean.

  • @Deez-Master
    @Deez-Master 4 года назад +60

    I have a degree in plant science and I can shed some light on why the CO2 plant died and the Oxygen plant did just fine. Basically plants still need oxygen. Yes plants use CO2 + Sunlight to make sugars to store the energy of the sun for later and oxygen is a by product here. The important part is that in order to release and harness the energy stored in the sugar they need to use oxygen in the process, creating water and CO2 again. So it's theoretically a closed loop, but in actuality the plant needs both Water and Oxygen and CO2 to be supplied to it in order to thrive in the long run. Reason being that all the pieces need to come together at the right time, all of them need to be plentiful enough to randomly interact in the chaotic mess that is the life of a cell.
    It's a fine tuned process that has been evolved over millions or billions of years so it is especially adapted to deal with the concentrations similar to those found in nature. In nature O2 makes up ~20% of the atmosphere where as CO2 is 410 parts per million or 0.041% so the plant is going to be a lot more sensitive to the oxygen level going to 0 than the CO2.
    Another way to think about it is taking away the CO2 stops the plant from storing new energy while taking away all the O2 takes away its ability to release any of its stored energy so it doesn't matter how much more energy it can store with all that CO2 available.
    Final point here, the marginal amount of CO2 released in the process of the plant breaking down its sugars would be much more significant to the plant because it is used to such low levels. Comparatively the marginal amount of O2 released in photosynthesis is going to seem like nothing when the plant is used to a 20% O2 atmosphere.

    • @truffles.xenpai5388
      @truffles.xenpai5388 4 года назад

      Forgetting H2O for the photosynthesis

    • @PJPEE
      @PJPEE 4 года назад +3

      It may have also undergone photorespiration from the excess oxygen causing rubisco to fixate oxygen and output CO2. So the oxygen plant was probably just slowly dying and while the root system was doing just fine.

    • @panda3166
      @panda3166 4 года назад +1

      ive never heard about anyone with a degree in plant science until now

    • @kenobi94
      @kenobi94 4 года назад +1

      XD bc it isn't a thing it has a different name or may just be a biologist

    • @PJPEE
      @PJPEE 4 года назад +5

      @@kenobi94 what you mean? Plant science is a real degree. It may not be something you've heard of but it's still a thing

  • @dalemoore2359
    @dalemoore2359 4 года назад +89

    Plants need oxygen to break down glucose. They can’t survive in an environment without oxygen. Thank you High school biology.

    • @nathanh8583
      @nathanh8583 4 года назад +2

      they need carbon dioxide

    • @janiexiong4560
      @janiexiong4560 4 года назад +4

      The plants can use photosynthesis to convert the co2 into oxygen as well as obtain glucose for respiration, so the problem shouldn’t be a lack of O2.

    • @druup3488
      @druup3488 4 года назад +5

      @@janiexiong4560 yes they need co2 for photosynthesis to create sugars, but they need o2 to break the sugars down for energy. It's very much more complicated than it looks.

    • @airestith5309
      @airestith5309 4 года назад +2

      @@janiexiong4560 it is though plants need oxygen and CO2

  • @giovannirosado8611
    @giovannirosado8611 4 года назад +71

    5:50 What most likely happened is that the “control” was set inside a mason jar where humidity was able to concentrate creating a perfect environment for mold to grow. This is exactly why you did not get the same results with the plant that was left out in the the open or the ones that where closed and/or vacuumed. Most fungi and mold need air and humidity to grow. Of course the spores were already in the environment and/or in the plant before you started. You just gave it the perfect environment to thrive. Hope this was helpful.

    • @MrJever180
      @MrJever180 4 года назад

      @@wesleybrame6846 the jar keeps the humidity better

    • @MrJever180
      @MrJever180 4 года назад

      And then the gasses to yes

    • @verde5268
      @verde5268 4 года назад

      Prime Shadow because the closed jar keeps in the moisture

    • @kenobi94
      @kenobi94 4 года назад +2

      @@wesleybrame6846 CO2 woulda suffocated any mold

    • @kenobi94
      @kenobi94 4 года назад

      Yeah I think they know already....

  • @finarfin1989
    @finarfin1989 4 года назад +59

    *sees poor basil plants not used for cooking*
    [screams in Italian]

  • @azjves
    @azjves 4 года назад +7

    6:41 because plant didn't need CO2 to breath, they need O2 to breath.
    Plant using CO2 as one of the ingredients for them to make food (carbohydrate), not for breathing.

  • @verasinha7863
    @verasinha7863 4 года назад +159

    TKOR: looks at a plant
    Plant: (chuckles) I am in danger

    • @coolstufffoundhere9687
      @coolstufffoundhere9687 4 года назад +3

      That is from @timtom

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      @gioambrogio4194 4 года назад

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  • @DIYGarage_SoCal
    @DIYGarage_SoCal 4 года назад +31

    You guys need to test the effects of temprsrily placing large neodymium iron-boron magnet (N45), 2"x2"×1", South side facing the root of the plants. Wrap the magnet in cellophane wrap to protect the magent plating from leaching into the soil. Remove the magnet at the end of the growing season. Veggie/ fruit plants that have a magnet placed below their root system loke this will grow bigger and healthier.

    • @Ebiko
      @Ebiko 4 года назад +3

      Huh , that's sounds interesting
      No clue how it's supposed to work biologically , but I'm interested to find out

    • @gieljannoe6404
      @gieljannoe6404 4 года назад +4

      Can I switch the polarity to make them a bit smaller....

    • @DIYGarage_SoCal
      @DIYGarage_SoCal 4 года назад +2

      @@gieljannoe6404 idk let's see what Nate and Calli find out!! :)

    • @Masterpouya
      @Masterpouya 4 года назад

      If that works, that is insane !! Really wanna see that ! Great idea Justin !

    • @Waterpassion
      @Waterpassion 4 года назад

      Justin: kinda like the banana peel and the rose bush?

  • @tunarjalilli4376
    @tunarjalilli4376 4 года назад +38

    Plants don’t breath with co2 they breathe with o2 too, they use co2 , water and sunlight as energy source

    • @DanielBohnen
      @DanielBohnen 4 года назад +2

      Sunlight is the energy source the CO2 is the material uses to grow

    • @DanielBohnen
      @DanielBohnen 4 года назад +2

      It needs oxygen

    • @tunarjalilli4376
      @tunarjalilli4376 4 года назад +2

      Daniel Bohnen yes sunlight is used by plants to convert water and co2 into a Glucose

    • @alexaipaw
      @alexaipaw 4 года назад +6

      @@tunarjalilli4376 and then it uses glucose and oxygen to produce the byproducts Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen Monoxide, as well as the compound Adenosine Triphosphate, which is used as energy

    • @problemsolver3254
      @problemsolver3254 4 года назад +1

      He needs to make a apology video

  • @Da1ienx
    @Da1ienx 4 года назад +6

    Its a common misconception, plants only use c02 when actively photosynthesizing, at night they switch to using o2.
    without o2 they sufficate, without co2 they just cant grow larger

  • @FPSWildlifeAngler
    @FPSWildlifeAngler 4 года назад +33

    Nate 2019: this taste weird
    Nate 2020: this smells weird

    • @sunkencubam5752
      @sunkencubam5752 4 года назад +2

      Grant Thompson 2019: AHHH
      Grant Thompson 2020:

    • @FennecFelix.memento
      @FennecFelix.memento 4 года назад +3

      @@sunkencubam5752 get out. It's not an offer... Leave

    • @asagillespie4588
      @asagillespie4588 4 года назад +2

      @@sunkencubam5752 what is wrong with you

    • @naxzed_it
      @naxzed_it 4 года назад

      @@sunkencubam5752 Lmao

    • @Lara-dr8is
      @Lara-dr8is 4 года назад

      @@sunkencubam5752 distasteful joke but I chuckled. please refrain from making similar jokes since it's still a difficult situation for his relatives

  • @alexandram.2714
    @alexandram.2714 4 года назад +73

    Today on TKR we'll put plants in an oxygen tank
    Cali"It's kinda mean.."
    Also Cali "BUT..."
    Also Cali "Sorry buddy"

  • @joshuamc96
    @joshuamc96 4 года назад +19

    Too much water, probably fungus gnats, and fungal spores from the air either in the lab or from where you got them could be contributing factors to the health of plants.
    The pure CO2 one suffocated the roots of the plant and the aerobic bacteria and fungi, acidified the soil, and decreased the ability of the plant to use water. The pure O2 allows the roots to breathe and gave the cells enough fuel for respiration (burning stored energy, like animal cells) which may temporarily make up for the lack of photosynthesis, plants are massive carbohydrate/sugar stores afterall. But the pure O2 is probably more reliably explained by creating an atmosphere that's great for the roots and the aerobic bacteria and fungi present in the soil, which then produce carbon dioxide and other nutrients for the plant to use to grow.

    • @TronSAHeroXYZ
      @TronSAHeroXYZ 4 года назад

      Exactly Correct. Need more thumbs.

  • @pirateskeleton7828
    @pirateskeleton7828 4 года назад +4

    Plants don’t “breath” CO2. They use it as a precursor to the photosynthetic process to generate carbohydrates. Technically they do breathe oxygen as part of cellular respiration. It just so happens that oxygen is also a byproduct of photosynthesis.

  • @dazedconfused5072
    @dazedconfused5072 4 года назад +8

    Part of the issue is that herbs don't like wet roots. The sealed containers held onto too much water

  • @Charles.Spillman
    @Charles.Spillman 4 года назад +28

    I love the king of random it's the best show to watch during quarantine I love how the random happens

    • @urbanmonkey48
      @urbanmonkey48 4 года назад

      It's not that random that plants die with out breathing. It's not a hard question to answer.

    • @Jermioo
      @Jermioo 4 года назад

      fax

    • @zeroluxio3541
      @zeroluxio3541 4 года назад +1

      @@urbanmonkey48 it's a experiment

    • @Charles.Spillman
      @Charles.Spillman 4 года назад

      @@urbanmonkey48 I meant the random thoughts

  • @marlorulon5479
    @marlorulon5479 4 года назад +143

    Nate: calli I have a video idea
    Calli: not gushers
    Nate: killing plants!!
    Calli: 🤦🏻‍♀️

    • @thirstyladd69
      @thirstyladd69 4 года назад

      Lol 😂

    • @christianheichel
      @christianheichel 4 года назад +4

      I'm sure she'd be thrilled to watch them burn though 😲😁😎🔥

    • @XyritzchMadela
      @XyritzchMadela 4 года назад

      Don’t you mean👀
      👅

    • @frostkitten457
      @frostkitten457 4 года назад +1

      Just making sure I wasn't the only one who noticed that they said their next video was about gushers. I was so excited but I guess I misheard.

    • @hydracdxv
      @hydracdxv 4 года назад

      Marlo Rulon wrong emoji sorry 🤦‍♀️+👩🏻‍🦰

  • @brendankiyohara771
    @brendankiyohara771 4 года назад +40

    The King of Random Video Idea: Freeze dry cheese and butter. What will happen?

  • @Robot831
    @Robot831 4 года назад +81

    When raid shadow legend DOSENT sponsor this video
    *happy noises*

  • @DanielFrostable
    @DanielFrostable 4 года назад +3

    If there's no drainage fungus will form. For jars(anything with a closed bottom) you have to create a drainage layer to prevent fungus.

  • @dannyd02
    @dannyd02 4 года назад +58

    The Oxygen plant seems to show that maybe the Oxygen theory is correct for why plants grew so big in prehistoric times.

    • @Techtradragon
      @Techtradragon 4 года назад

      Nope

    • @altersami9660
      @altersami9660 4 года назад +4

      Plants need oxygen to produce energy. They only need need CO2 to create food, mostly carbohydrates. Like human, plants can survive longer with no food than they could with no oxygen. It can't survive long enough to turn that CO2 into oxygen.

    • @FennecFelix.memento
      @FennecFelix.memento 4 года назад +1

      @@altersami9660 I really appreciate this comment like I'll rembered that but you could ask what I did in my biology class and I couldn't tell you 😂. But really like idk if you looked that up and that's not for me to judge but if not your smart.

  • @connorthegreat206
    @connorthegreat206 4 года назад +16

    The O2 sealed plant is acting like an unbalanced terrarium where the microbes/ little bugs in the soil use the oxygen to breathe and then exhale CO2 for the plant to convert to O2 over and over again.
    Great video 👌

  • @kazutokirigaya8840
    @kazutokirigaya8840 4 года назад +28

    As a landscaper I just thought of this:
    Infusing some piece of land with liquid nitrogen and seeing how well a plant in that area does

    • @Cragified
      @Cragified 4 года назад +5

      Temperature and pressure difference would just result in the nitrogen turning into a gas and returning to the atmosphere. Also plants use Nitrate NO3 not N2. N2 is very unreactive. This is why legume are called 'nitrogen fixing' they take N2 and through a complicated process convert it into NH3. Then bacteria can turn that into NH4, then other bacteria turn that into NO3 and other bacteria turn it into NO3 which plants can use.
      The other method of nitrogen getting into the soil is from animal urine and feces and decomposers of dead plants.
      So in effect, other then largely sterilizing the soil for a short term due to the thermal shock and lack of O2 nothing would happen.

    • @squidcaps4308
      @squidcaps4308 4 года назад

      @@Cragified "N2 is very unreactive. " Now here is an understatement and a half ;)

  • @chantalallanson1274
    @chantalallanson1274 4 года назад

    The mould on your open control is called botrytis. It's a greyish mould caused, normally by dampness.
    Basil is actually very prone to it. My family owned a garden centre in the Uk and overwinter or a particularly wet and cold summer we'd lose a lot of our basil plant to it. It's caused by damp air and cold or watering late in the day when it's cold overnight. The best way to prevent it is to water the plant's first thing in the morning so they have all day to dry off and keep them somewhere warmer overnight (if memory serves me correct above 10°C.)

  • @carlaguzzardo2424
    @carlaguzzardo2424 Год назад +1

    I actually did a similar experiment in middle school and used ammonia (cleaning liquid in a dish), carbon monoxide (exhaust from a car), and chlorine (bleach in a dish) as additives to the sealed atmosphere in an aquarium. Oddly enough, the chlorine exposures (I had three plants for each trial) did the best, even better than the control.

  • @shxdowaditya3617
    @shxdowaditya3617 4 года назад +33

    Whoever is reading this, have an amazing day

  • @chloelouise466
    @chloelouise466 4 года назад +15

    4:42
    They still have so many Oreos left😂

    • @ComputerSchool101
      @ComputerSchool101 4 года назад +3

      I didn't even notice!

    • @gameplaydesigner7329
      @gameplaydesigner7329 4 года назад +2

      3 packs is only enough for 1 day in quarantine what do you mean

    • @abd1x7
      @abd1x7 4 года назад +1

      Fluffi hahaha(I didn’t eat one Oreo for the whole quarantine 😭😭😭😭😭😿😭)

  • @guncrafta8848
    @guncrafta8848 4 года назад +5

    Little correction: Plants need both, CO2 and Oxygen but more CO2 than Oxygen. At day they consume CO2 and at night they consume O2. That has to do with missing sunlight at night so they can not do photosynthesis but when they do "breath" they can live without it.
    That's what I learned in school

    • @truffles.xenpai5388
      @truffles.xenpai5388 4 года назад +1

      Plants take in O2 all the time for aerobic respiration but they only take in CO2 in the day as it is needed in photosynthesis along with water and sunlight

  • @verisimilitudo1
    @verisimilitudo1 Год назад +2

    Plants create co2 in their respiration cycle. The o2 provided the plant what it needed to continue a proper cycle. It's evolved to grow in a higher o2 to co2 environment.

  • @robbiev9296
    @robbiev9296 4 года назад +2

    Although plants DO use CO2 for photosynthesis, it does not go directly to energy. Photosynthesis merely creates glucose, which is basically food. On order to turn that glucose into ATP (energy), it needs oxygen for cellular respiration. In all, you generally need significantly less CO2 than oxygen, because actually being able to use food is better than just having it.

  • @purebread3898
    @purebread3898 4 года назад +36

    Other people: commenting suggestions
    Me: nice haircut nate

    • @calthoun
      @calthoun 4 года назад +1

      At least I wasn't the only one to notice, although I was distracted by the plants breath CO2

  • @brendankiyohara771
    @brendankiyohara771 4 года назад +8

    Who is excited when the king of random posts a new video?

    • @stevie5944
      @stevie5944 4 года назад

      Meeeeeeeesseeeeerere

  • @Tah-.
    @Tah-. 4 года назад +10

    This is by far the earliest I’ve ever been to a video

    • @rhalenejohnson3418
      @rhalenejohnson3418 4 года назад

      Me too

    • @BoxFrrog
      @BoxFrrog 4 года назад

      Same dude we should all chat on this comment

    • @Peytonthefeyton
      @Peytonthefeyton 4 года назад

      Rhalene Johnson *me 2*

    • @zoeryan6523
      @zoeryan6523 4 года назад

      Same

    • @yingxiawei821
      @yingxiawei821 4 года назад

      This is the second earliest I’ve ever been. My earliest was 1 minute. This time I got here in 6 minutes

  • @riccardosarcone9072
    @riccardosarcone9072 4 года назад +4

    Actually plants also breath like us. Plants can do photosynthesis, where they use water and CO2 to produce O2. But they can also do the opposite, use the oxygen to survive, usually this breathing process is something that plant do during the night.

  • @LukeLamana
    @LukeLamana 4 года назад

    Gardening has been big during the lockdown-so much so I saw my first ever Lowe’s billboard sign advertising its Garden Center.
    What about a test of different types of rooting methods/powders? Rooting being the trimming and replanting of plants to create more plants-give them away as gifts, make your garden bigger.
    Rooting can be done with simple vegetables-like onions and radish-by sticking the root or leafy portion into water for a few days.
    But with fruit trees or other plants, rooting can be more difficult, and so they have powders that you can use to sterilize the soil (prevent rotting) and promote root growth on the cut branches. You can use purchased rooting powder, as well as a variety of other methods like honey, cinnamon, aspirins tablets, etc.

  • @sundaygeeker
    @sundaygeeker 4 года назад +64

    Cali: Plants need cO2 to live
    Me who doesn’t know what a botanist is
    Who is he who is so wise in the ways of science

  • @chrislazaridis5214
    @chrislazaridis5214 4 года назад +12

    Plats can use O2 to breath if they can't photosynthesis

    • @ammonit3042
      @ammonit3042 4 года назад

      They ALWAYS breath O2. Not just at night or something. Assimilation/dissimilation

  • @connerk3960
    @connerk3960 4 года назад +45

    King of Random Video Idea: Which type of hydrogen peroxide will make the tallest elephant toothpaste stream

    • @ALPHATHEREAL
      @ALPHATHEREAL 4 года назад +8

      The most concentrated one 😉

    • @denisesansel
      @denisesansel 4 года назад +1

      They did in Brazil! Check Manual do Mundo

  • @clusterhunt
    @clusterhunt 4 года назад +2

    I like that there is a picture of Grant in the background :')

  • @Cragified
    @Cragified 4 года назад

    For those pondering the one in the vacuum. Plants utilize water to do the job our blood does. At the leaves there are very small openings just large enough for water molecules to evaporate from. This causes a negative pressure (possible in liquids) that pulls water up the plant bringing sugars and minerals up to the leaves. When you put it into a vacuum the water in the soil undergo a phase change into a gas. So the jar was actually filled with water vapor (Hence the water droplets on the inside of the jar) because of this and the conditions it was then impossible for water to evaporate from the leaves and 'pump' up sugars and nutrients since the water vapor atmosphere within was already at its maximum pressure.

  • @MoonFlux
    @MoonFlux 4 года назад +70

    Most people: Yeah, Science!
    Me: RIP plants :(

    • @Rosyna
      @Rosyna 4 года назад +1

      No science here. There was no hypothesis being tested and the “control” plants couldn’t be kept alive and healthy.

    • @NuttyCuts_
      @NuttyCuts_ 4 года назад

      Rosyna Keller why couldn’t the control be kept alive?

    • @MoonFlux
      @MoonFlux 4 года назад +1

      @@NuttyCuts_ looked to me both a mix of under water and not enough sun, plants like that need a lot.

    • @NuttyCuts_
      @NuttyCuts_ 4 года назад

      @@MoonFlux so it wasnt anything to do with the jar? it just needed more sun and water?

    • @MoonFlux
      @MoonFlux 4 года назад +1

      @@NuttyCuts_ maybe there could have been. I am just saying how it appears to be. The mold one was because of being to warm and wet, not able to easily dry its leaves.

  • @Linda-cw3jg
    @Linda-cw3jg 4 года назад +10

    Plants in vacuums to humans:
    Plants in vacuums to themselves: *GASP*

  • @Deez-Master
    @Deez-Master 4 года назад +7

    I have a degree in plant science, hard to say about the mold in the control jar. Completely possible that it(the mold) just enjoyed the elevated humidity from the moist soil + less airflow into the jar compared to a natural setting.
    No soil is gonna be sterile and plant are constantly fighting fungi so it could just be random chance the fungi in the soil or spores landing on it just happened to be something it couldn't face, or it could be that something about the experimental condition tilted the battle in favor of the fungus

  • @illusiveman6891
    @illusiveman6891 4 года назад

    About a year ago, I suggested to do a video like this. I'm so happy and excited that you did it!!

  • @kartvyasheth2087
    @kartvyasheth2087 4 года назад +2

    Do more plant video's . It's very interesting!✌🏼

  • @ALPHATHEREAL
    @ALPHATHEREAL 4 года назад +20

    Cool experiment. Keep Inspiring 🔥

  • @halbnacht8134
    @halbnacht8134 4 года назад +15

    Next: Will a human thrive in an oxygen only environment

    • @LordBlee
      @LordBlee 4 года назад +1

      Or a CO2 only environment. But first, we are going to need bigger jars and vacuum....

    • @kalebdye4378
      @kalebdye4378 4 года назад +2

      Ironically, a completely oxygen environment would actually suffocate you.

    • @drdrums1
      @drdrums1 4 года назад +2

      It depends on the pressure. If the O2 partial pressure is too high, O2 becomes toxic - it will cause seizures and retinopathy, among other bad things. I don't remember the charts (you study this stuff when learning about O2-enriched mixtures for diving, called a "nitrox" blend), but I think 100% pure O2 at sea level pressure is pretty close to, if not above, the oxygen toxicity level. It's also a function of time as well as pressure, so the longer you spend in a hyperoxic environment, the closer you get to oxygen poisoning.
      Fun fact - diving below 184 feet on regular air will result in oxygen toxicity, because at that depth the gas pressure is enough to increase the O2 partial pressure past the toxicity limit. At that depth, you have to use a hypoxic mixture (less than 21% O2), such as a trimix (air + Helium).

    • @LordBlee
      @LordBlee 4 года назад

      @@drdrums1 02 actually isn't toxic until much deeper, but for recreational diving, there isn't any reason to put yourself at risk. On 32% nitrox you don't usually want to go below ~110 feet.

  • @jared-roblox2661
    @jared-roblox2661 4 года назад +6

    I love plants I'm growing a aloe vera one it's doing great

  • @gluuuuue
    @gluuuuue 4 года назад

    Having researched a bit of hydroponics and aeroponics,
    1) Plants definitely need oxygen and that’s one of the reasons aeroponics and hydroponics with aeration into the nutrient solution works as effectively as it does: oxygen availability to the roots.
    2) Earth’s base atmosphere is ~20% oxygen whereas CO2 exists in very small amounts relatively.
    3) When you’re smelling the sealed jars, you’re not smelling only your test basil plant but any and all soil bacteria that was also trapped into the environment with the plant during your test period. Aerobic bacteria growth vs anaerobic bacteria growth (or suppression/absence) are affected by the sealed environments as well.
    (Also, sealing and temp affects things like humidity, which definitely affects plant growth and would be much more difficult to control for.)

  • @dedalosthegreat2823
    @dedalosthegreat2823 4 года назад +3

    Try dipping a mango seed in acid... Most healthy seeds grow in a week or two if you want to cultivate a sapling

  • @williamzoellerv870
    @williamzoellerv870 4 года назад +8

    Freeze dry potatoes and then try to make french fries with them

    • @koustubhgosavi6780
      @koustubhgosavi6780 4 года назад

      Well it will become instant French fries in either way
      (Either): drying/freeze drying

  • @bizzarehumanoid-1519
    @bizzarehumanoid-1519 4 года назад +26

    Everyone: *quotes people for weird things they say*
    Me:
    Cali: *breathes*
    Nate: *blinks*

  • @rafaelgcpp
    @rafaelgcpp 4 года назад +5

    The "open control" got too much water. The glass mason jars hold the water for much longer than the planter, and allows fungi to develop...

  • @oliverstotts4302
    @oliverstotts4302 4 года назад +4

    The reason that the oxygen one grew so much was because of the mitochondria being able to make more energy therefore making it grow more. Even though CO2 is also important I guess oxygen is too.

  • @ultrainstinct2175
    @ultrainstinct2175 4 года назад +1

    Plants also respire at night in absense of sunlight . So the plant with oxygen it respired at night produced energy from the stored starch.

  • @nyx7860
    @nyx7860 4 года назад +5

    So about the plant sealed in the oxygen jar: plants can do cellular respiration as well, so is that why it's still relatively functional?

    • @leahbone69
      @leahbone69 4 года назад

      think of carbon dioxide as food and oxygen as just air, thats why the oxygen one did slightly better than the co2 one

    • @adamwheeler1391
      @adamwheeler1391 4 года назад

      exactly right it probasbly just had food stored up in the form of starch and was able to convert it into energy using the oxygen. The plant in the CO2 could make more food but it couldn't use the food that it made.

  • @elliotmarks06
    @elliotmarks06 4 года назад +18

    Now just factor in grant's rice theory, and put nice words on the jars!

  • @subscribetoanegg4035
    @subscribetoanegg4035 4 года назад +10

    TKOR makin everyone's quarantine better

    • @heckerv7624
      @heckerv7624 4 года назад +1

      Youtoub

    • @aaronsimpson8329
      @aaronsimpson8329 4 года назад +1

      Quarantine is over for most of America TKOR is just making life better RIP Grant!

    • @notjustanotherguy739
      @notjustanotherguy739 4 года назад +1

      @@aaronsimpson8329 Idiots, fooling yourselves that the pandemic is over!

    • @calico8274
      @calico8274 4 года назад +1

      mk dudes

  • @jordannunez123
    @jordannunez123 4 года назад +1

    Using different types of soil additives to see how they effect everything. Orange peels, fish, compost, sand, or Epsom salt. Wonder which Will work best

  • @alacard84
    @alacard84 4 года назад

    The vacuum one mostly likely did the worst because all the cell walls will burst causing the plant to become mushy. Nice vids. Keep them coming.

  • @BombedNevada
    @BombedNevada 4 года назад +19

    Someone skipped class during the unit on photosynthesis.

    • @taylorsherrill1721
      @taylorsherrill1721 4 года назад +1

      The growth light is meant to supplement sunlight for the photosynthesis process

  • @SteelCurrent
    @SteelCurrent 4 года назад +5

    Independent variable: The growth enviroment
    Dependent variable: If it works or not
    Controlled variable: The pot

    • @aliyahwist5593
      @aliyahwist5593 4 года назад

      Why do I feel like this comment was just a school assignment that you were forced to do

  • @L0c0Glono
    @L0c0Glono 4 года назад +35

    The best environment? *Raid Shadow Legends’ battlefields*

  • @kylongstaff1210
    @kylongstaff1210 4 года назад +1

    I totally comment this about a bit ago and I'm so happy that it's here

  • @Trebmal1990
    @Trebmal1990 4 года назад

    For the CO2 jar Nate commented that it looked pickled. When lacto fermenting vegetables you put them in a sealed oxygenless environment and try avoiding air contact and the bacteria generate a lot of co2 in the process, so it may have kinda fermented in a way.

  • @blakelelm9545
    @blakelelm9545 4 года назад +5

    Plants still get their energy from oxygen and glucose but they make their own with co2. That's why the plant did so well

  • @fredsilva8076
    @fredsilva8076 4 года назад +6

    IDEA: try growing plants in a faraday cage and see what happens.

  • @CaptainMug
    @CaptainMug 4 года назад +25

    They picked one of the least resistant most picky plant out there xD

    • @averthewin1689
      @averthewin1689 4 года назад +4

      My basil plants took off like a rocket idk what your talking about them being picky

    • @jannaj2719
      @jannaj2719 4 года назад +1

      That’s what I thought.

  • @RosettaAceAlmaak
    @RosettaAceAlmaak 2 года назад

    My take on why the O2 jar did so well: you forgot about the microorganisms living in the soil. They'll produce enough CO2 for the plant to hang on to life. Plus, just like animals, plants undergo cellular respiration, where oxygen goes in and carbon dioxide goes out. It just used the CO2 it put out to continue living.

  • @SavageGreywolf
    @SavageGreywolf 4 года назад

    Here's a factor you may not have thought about, Nate: There are other living things in the soil besides just the plant, like microorganisms. Some of those things may have a symbiotic relationship with the plants. They may also rely on oxygen to survive. It's possible strongly oxygenating the atmosphere of the O2 jar made those creatures thrive, which in turn made the plant thrive. Conversely, filling the sealed CO2 jar may have made those do badly, which led to the plant doing poorly. The open jar still had access to atmosphere so likely despite the CO2 doses such organisms might still be able to survive.
    It's even possible that the factors of O2, water, etc formed the right mix to allow the jar to serve as a complete closed ecosystem. It's even possible the other jars are as well, but such might not necessarily include the plant: We wouldn't be able to tell unless you let them sit for some time though.

  • @mrcrazyclever
    @mrcrazyclever 4 года назад +49

    *Me: Ahh, I’m Only 3 Minutes Late!
    Video: 4.9K Views*

  • @alarren_
    @alarren_ 4 года назад +6

    0:26 he should’ve said what happens if I lick the plant 🤪

  • @icecubes_for_the_boiling_frogs
    @icecubes_for_the_boiling_frogs 4 года назад +8

    Any "closet horticulturalist" could have told you how this would turn out.....
    I've said too much

  • @fathomisticfantasy2681
    @fathomisticfantasy2681 4 года назад

    I grew a lot of basil one year. It turns out they are really easy to grow. That is if you don't get mold. Basil enjoys a lot of heat during the summer and prefer to be dry enough that bacteria does not grow. I actually love to put fresh cut basil in my morning eggs. If anyone wants to grow basil be mindful not to buy more than two plants unless you really enjoy basil. These things can go crazy in the middle of the summer and you do not want to let them get too big. The stems get extremely hard and keeping them pruned ensures that you can chop them up easily. I recommend growing basil and tomatoes together. They both are very forgiving when it comes to growing them in pots. Use a 5 gallon bucket for the tomatoes and paint the buckets black. Otherwise the sun will scorch them. I personally want to master growing oregano. Its a little more difficult, but totally worth it for canning your own spaghetti sauce.

  • @bradybutler551
    @bradybutler551 4 года назад +1

    The CO2 Sealed plant was probably lacking Nitrogen. That's why trees near salmon spawning grounds are very healthy. The Salmon that are dragged into the forest degrade into Nitrogen, which the trees consume.

  • @EntangledQuarks
    @EntangledQuarks 4 года назад +5

    Plants absorb oxygen at night, but they use carbon dioxide to photosynthesize in the day, so it’s not that much of a surprise that the one in oxygen did well!
    Just saying!

  • @TRBenjiSwiss
    @TRBenjiSwiss 4 года назад +19

    “welred beyond belief”
    Welted beyond beLEAF
    I’ll see myself out
    (i know its wilted, but i want to tick off more grammar/spelling nazis)

    • @ragnaroksangel
      @ragnaroksangel 3 года назад

      Wilted* not welted, wtf

    • @TRBenjiSwiss
      @TRBenjiSwiss 3 года назад

      @@ragnaroksangel ah yeas, thancce four thi speeling corerection (whoich i was actually going to correct a while ago but forgot), i woill noet corerect eet four nou

    • @ragnaroksangel
      @ragnaroksangel 3 года назад

      @@TRBenjiSwiss Hurrr durrr don't talk to me.

    • @TRBenjiSwiss
      @TRBenjiSwiss 3 года назад

      @@ragnaroksangel mission success

  • @BL4ST001
    @BL4ST001 4 года назад +4

    Comments in 2019:
    30% talking about the video
    70% RiP tHe KiNg Of RaNdOm

  • @raikupwns243
    @raikupwns243 4 года назад

    If you guys plan on doing experiments like this again, I suggest using something like duckweed since it’s small and has fewer requirements, eliminating some of the factors that effected your Basil

  • @adamart8719
    @adamart8719 4 года назад

    Plants take in oxygen as well Nate when the sun's down, maybe your grill light doesn't provide enough UV light to trick the plant into turning on food production mode, it's still in sleeping mode where it takes in oxygen

  • @jayanthijames2045
    @jayanthijames2045 4 года назад +10

    Me: sees notification
    My Mind: Go Go Go!!

  • @Robot831
    @Robot831 4 года назад +5

    So in today’s video we are taking away the main necessity the human needs and locking it away in a jar :D

  • @sammy2502
    @sammy2502 4 года назад +5

    Hey guys can you plz like this so they can see?
    Can you guys test out the martinelli apple juice tik tok stuff. Does it actually work?
    Again. Please can you like this so they can see

    • @sammy2502
      @sammy2502 4 года назад

      Thx to those two person who liked

    • @calico8274
      @calico8274 4 года назад +1

      exactly 5 people liked your comment

    • @sammy2502
      @sammy2502 4 года назад

      Sry. I don’t get updates any more

    • @sammy2502
      @sammy2502 4 года назад

      THANKS TO THOSE 4 PEOPLE. ONE OF THEM WAS ME XD

  • @ADRdaniel
    @ADRdaniel 4 года назад

    My hypothesis for the success of the oxygen jar is, the oxygen was able to sustain the basil's roots and tissues in a high humidity stagnant environment. the overall issue with this test is plants do regular cellular respiration as in, Burning carbon to produce atp and sustain life (primarily plants use photosynthesis but are not limited to this mechanism). From what I understand plants do this primarily in their roots. Therefore when in a small sealed space plants will 'drown' beacuse without oxygen at the roots plants struggle to maintain their roots health and often are prone to root rot mold and other natural decomposing processes.
    In order to properly test the effects of atmosphere changes plants will require a suitable Sealed environment were the is enough room for a water cycle. This is usually accomplished by creating a drainage layer where the water in the ecosystem can collect without contacting the main root mass and especially the rhyzome.

  • @NoName-dc4kj
    @NoName-dc4kj 4 года назад +3

    Nate: something attacked this plant
    Me: are you accusing this mold of murder?

  • @leahzukovsky3201
    @leahzukovsky3201 4 года назад +16

    Yo I actually can’t believe that I’m this early 😂

  • @yingxiawei821
    @yingxiawei821 4 года назад +15

    Hello, random person scrolling through the comments!

  • @accountname6841
    @accountname6841 4 года назад +4

    I was watching the king of random

  • @FmlitsAJ
    @FmlitsAJ 4 года назад +2

    The one thing I’ll remember from my high school horticulture class is when my teacher told us that plants need oxygen to survive too.

  • @bobfrediii2131
    @bobfrediii2131 4 года назад +1

    Plants actually do take in oxygen, plants do respiration as well, without oxygen plants can’t grow, plants also store starch so all their carbon needs for the week could come from those stores (btw I’m not a plant biologist)