Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1057/en

In plant production, every external application of nitrogen represents a kind of thrust-by-thrust compulsion to grow. In every case, whether administered as fast-acting nitrate or as the more slowly acting ammonium compound, the nitrogen concentration in the soil solution rises — and the plant has no defence against it. The compulsion to absorb an excess of nitrogen salts weakens the etheric organisation of the plant in all its organs. In the root, which reaches downward into the head pole, this manifests as a dulling of its functions. One of those functions is its predisposition toward a kind of sense capacity — not only in relation to the formative forces of the cosmos and the water element, but above all in relation to the element of the earthy-solid. The subtlety of these processes reveals itself in the following phenomena: