Aspirin

FLRedHeart · January 17, 2015

saltmarsh, if you don't get suggestions I wouldn't bother, because IMO the experiment won't prove anything except plants can take 1, 2, or 3 and call you in the morning. If we are dealing with something anecdotally considered a plant vaccine for anything, that would be a mighty big conspiracy of the agrichemical/pesticide/fertilizer businesses not to offer a commercial product.

A good study would randomize varieties or use all the same one. There would be a measurable result for each exposed level per plant and per control plant, preferably double blind. And you need a concrete assertion to test. Like "Aspirin adds one extra week to the season after attack by Late Blight". So you would then inoculate the whole field equally with Late Blight

.and then do the data collection.
Serendipity only goes so far, but according to Wikipedia, aspirin has been in everyone's medicine cabinet since 1899 and isn't any documented remedy for cultivation. And in 1918 there is anecdotal evidence that the over application of aspirin was deadly to some other species, and a bunch of scientists enjoying an argumente over it (some things never change):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_fl...irin_poisoning

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FLRedHeart Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: FL 8b/9a Posts: 262	saltmarsh, if you don't get suggestions I wouldn't bother, because IMO the experiment won't prove anything except plants can take 1, 2, or 3 and call you in the morning. If we are dealing with something anecdotally considered a plant vaccine for anything, that would be a mighty big conspiracy of the agrichemical/pesticide/fertilizer businesses not to offer a commercial product. A good study would randomize varieties or use all the same one. There would be a measurable result for each exposed level per plant and per control plant, preferably double blind. And you need a concrete assertion to test. Like "Aspirin adds one extra week to the season after attack by Late Blight". So you would then inoculate the whole field equally with Late Blight.and then do the data collection. Serendipity only goes so far, but according to Wikipedia, aspirin has been in everyone's medicine cabinet since 1899 and isn't any documented remedy for cultivation. And in 1918 there is anecdotal evidence that the over application of aspirin was deadly to some other species, and a bunch of scientists enjoying an argumente over it (some things never change): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_fl...irin_poisoning Last edited by FLRedHeart; January 17, 2015 at 02:29 AM. Reason: spelling