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After concluding on how to proceed in terms of a demonstration, the Dirty Lads continued to collect samples of the Japanese Knotweed, this time retaining a sample in a fish tank, while keeping a neighboring plant in another fish tank to serve as a control. Even if conditions in the laboratory were not ideal, it would be made possible to reference the performance of the knotweed with another plant after a few weeks. As the Dirty Lads conducted the extraction, it was observed that there was snow on the ground and the stalk of the plant had nearly completely withered. The leaves were withered as well, producing an overall brown, decomposing appearance to the plant. It was believed that there would be no possible way that the plant would recover, but the Dirty Lads collected the sample regardless, taking it back to the laboratory to give it a chance to regrow. To reiterate, the largest focus of using a fish tank would be to show the roots. Based on the digging effort, it was clear that the root ball was not a ball, but rather a far-reaching network of thick rhizomes that had embedded themselves deep into the soil. Any plant life surrounding the knotweed was clearly withered and fading, not only because of the poor weather, but due to being “choked out” by the Japanese knotweed. Rather than using the botany greenhouse that was on campus, the Dirty Lads considered the danger that the knotweed would pose to common, noninvasive species living in the greenhouse and ultimately concluded that it would be safer to store and grow the plant in the sanitary laboratory. Publication efforts for the project continued, as the Facebook page and Twitter account began to accumulate posts and tweets.
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the Dirty LadsThe group was first formed in late August of 2018 and since then, founded Shogun Knot Swat Oct. 2018 at Norwich University. The members consist of Brian Betz, Alonzo Hilario, Vincent Nguyen and Pat Ryan. ArchivesCategories |