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Phil Leapeo
Level 2: 93 points
Last Logged In: December 18th, 2011
TEAM: PD0 Biome Rank 1: Hiker


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The Taking Tree by Phil Leapeo

January 26th, 2010 6:09 PM / Location: 41.582271,-85.83443

INSTRUCTIONS: Hide ten objects in ten trees.

Taking a hint from saille, I thought tomyself what is it that the trees would want from me. Light? Water? Food? As much as I'd like to invent a small renewable outddor resistant lighting source or a mini C02 generating terraformer, neither of those are really practical. But food? Food, I can do. Specifically fertilizer. And since basic fertilizer is Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphate that was my inspiration. Since procuring large amounts of nitrogen might get me added to the Do Not Fly list, I figured potassium and Phosphate would be best.

Behold, fake salt! A combination of Potassium Chloride and Calcium Phosphate, that just needs to be liquified, concentrated into a super-saturated salt solution and Potassium Phosphate crystals will form. (Calcium chloride will absorb water from the air, so if I'm getting my inorganic chemistry right, it should stay in solution.) A few weeks later, I've got 10 unique crystals full of botanically appreciated goodness. Each time it rains or snows a small amount of the crystal will dissolve and fertilize the tree.


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Substrate
Close up
Nothing like pyrex, q-tips, hemp rope and surgical tape to get the job done.
Just outside my door
One for the hospital
And the moss covered tree gets one
Can't forget about the evergreens
The fruit tree by the train tracks needs some love
This tree's all alone in the foreground
And the library
Even a unique center of gravity
This trees going to need some love once the snow melts
And one for outside the used bookstore

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posted by Samantha on January 26th, 2010 8:06 PM

happy happy trees.

Thoughtful and Cool.
posted by Rego Hemia on January 27th, 2010 12:00 AM

Very nice tasking!

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posted by saille is planting praxis on January 27th, 2010 9:32 AM

yay! green-positive Biome tasking!

Nerd... ;-P
posted by Camel O'Rama on January 30th, 2010 9:22 AM

that is a grand amount of scientific smarts you used there....
I do not normally give 5 when I vote ....but i am a science geek...

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posted by Wolf on January 30th, 2010 8:21 PM

Now that's some compassionate science.