Horticulture Crossword

the art or practice of garden cultivation and management.
An acid or sour substance has a pH below 7.0.
Refers to soil with high ph; any pH over 7.0 is considered alkaline.
The base structural unit that plants are made of; cells contain a nucleus, that houses it's dna.
A complex carbohydrate that stiffens a plant tissue: tough stems contain cellulose.
Chemical used to purify water.
Green coloring matter of leaves and plants, essential to the production of carbohydrates by photosynthesis.
A mixture of decayed organic matter.
Deliver nutrient to the plant via roots or foliage.
Pistillate, ovule, seed-producing.
The leaves or more generally, the green part of a plant.
High Intensity Discharge.
.Light or colorless, odorless gas; hydrogen combines with oxygen to form water.
The external part of a plant attached to branches and stems for the purpose of taking in light from the sun s energy, they do this with chloroplasts in the cells which contain chlorophyll.
A series of growth stages through which a plant must pass in its natural lifetime; the stages for an annual plant are seed, seedling, vegetative and floral.
Made of, or derived from or related to living organisms. In agriculture organic means "natural." in chemistry organic means "a molecule or substance that contains carbon."
A plant's egg found within the calyx, it contains all the female genes; when fertilized, an ovule will grow into a seed
A scale from 1 to 14 that measures the acid to alkaline balance of a growing medium (or anything); in general plants grow best in a range of 5.5 to 6.8 pH
Their purpose is to anchor a plant and provide a means in which to feed and hydrate a plan
Male, pollen-producing
Complex carbohydrate; starch is manufactured and stored in food.
The main or primary root that grows from the seed; lateral roots will branch off the tap root.
Strain, phenotype (see strain).
Light with very short wave lengths, out of the visible spectrum, pass the blue-violet.
Electronic instrument or chemical used to find where soil or water is on the pH scale.