Editing Guide to hydroponics (section)

== [[File:Vendnutri.gif]] Chemicals ==

A lot of chemicals influence plants - get these from the vending machine, [[Chemistry]] or by growing your own!

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=== Fertilizers ===

* Nutriment: A fertilizer that adds 1u of nutrient to the tray and heals plants. You can get it by putting your plants and regular food in the grinder. Heals the plant.
* [[Ammonia]]: Similar to nutriment, but also increases yield. Get it from the [[Chemist]] or hack the Nutri-Vend to get this.
* [[Diethylamine]]: Even better than Ammonia - this adds 2u of nutrient to the tray, increases yield even more, heals the plant AND also kills pests. Get it the same way you get Ammonia.
* Saltpetre: Heals your plant, increases potency and decreases production time. Doesn't add nutrient to the tray.
* Robust Harvest: Increases plant yield by 30% without mutating it. Doesn't work on plants with 0 yield.

=== Pest Removal ===

* Pest Killer: Kills pests, and adds a small amount of toxicity.
* Weed Killer: Same as above, but for Weeds.

=== Mutation ===

* E-Z-Nutrient: Makes your plant mutate once every time it's ready for harvesting, and has no effect on the yield.
* Left 4 Zed: Makes your plant mutate twice, but the yield will be 1 at best - if the plant's yield is 0, then nothing is produced! You'll have to use another mutagen to harvest the normal yield of the plant.
* [[Unstable Mutagen]]: Used to randomly mutate plants - 5u for a chance to change the plant type, 1u/2u to only change stats.
* Radium and Uranium: Also usable for mutation (10u for plant type, 2u/5u for stats), but damages plants and adds toxicity. Radium is more damaging.

=== Plant Meds ===

* [[Ash]]: Heals your plant and kills weeds, but adds only half a unit of nutrient to the tray.
* Charcoal: Makes your plant less toxic. You can get it by whining to anyone who works in [[Medbay]].
* [[Cryoxadone]]: Heals your plant, via <s>miracles</s> science. Also lowers toxicity. Don't expect the [[Chemist]] to give this to you, but the medbay probably has  extra beakers of this.
* Holy water: If you can get the [[Chaplain]]'s attention and make him bless your water, it will heal your plant a bit.

=== Unorthodox chemicals ===

* Soda Water: Mostly adds water, but also heals the plant and adds nutrient to the tray by a tiny amount. 
* Milk: Adds some water and a tiny but of nutrient to the tray. 
* Beer: Adds a bit of water and nutrient to the tray, but damages the plant a little.
* Blood: Feeds both your plant and pests.
* Virus Food: Adds nutrient to the tray while damaging the plant.
* Nicotine: Kills pests while adding toxicity. 

=== The bad stuff ===

* Sugar: Makes pests and weeds grow stronger. Unless you [[Traitor|plan to use unstable mutagen to unleash giant spiders or Kudzu upon the station]], it's of no use.
* Toxin: Increases toxicity. Good job!
* Plant-B-Gone, Sulphuric Acid, Fluorosulfuric Acid: Damages the plant, adds toxicity and kills weeds. What do you think would happen?
* Fluorine, Chlorine: Same as above, but also drains water.
* Phosphorus: Same as Flourine/Chlorine, but adds nutrients to the tray instead of toxicity. Just use a spade.
* Napalm: Kills weeds, hurts plant and adds toxicity. This is just going downhill. Unless your plant has the fireproof [[#Traits|trait]], you might as well space the whole tray. On fireproof plants it will just kill weeds. 
* [[Guide_to_chemistry#Strange_Reagent|Strange Reagent]]: Is supposed to spawn hostile plant creatures but currently doesn't work. 
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