Two roommates with little botanical knowledge thought they could make a quick profit by growing ferns for the commercial florist market. They thought it would be very easy. All they had to do was collect the thousands of spores produced by a fern on their desktop and plant these like tiny seeds in individual pots. If they placed the pots in the sun, fertilized and watered the spores, and waited about a year, they would have plants that they could sell. Why are they doomed to failure

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Alfonso Vega

Biology

10 April, 12:52

Two roommates with little botanical knowledge thought they could make a quick profit by growing ferns for the commercial florist market. They thought it would be very easy. All they had to do was collect the thousands of spores produced by a fern on their desktop and plant these like tiny seeds in individual pots. If they placed the pots in the sun, fertilized and watered the spores, and waited about a year, they would have plants that they could sell. Why are they doomed to failure

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Julian Bauer · Answer 1

They made a mistake to place the pots in the sun. All Ferns thrive in light to heavy shade.

Explanation:

Ferns evolved in the shadows of the giant conifers and they are generally fond of indirect light.