system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: I planted a seed in a 5 gallon bucket of soil. Now there's a plant with a huge root ball in the space where the soil was, but the soil didn't rise or overflow. Where did that much volume of soil go?
gpt
The soil has pockets where the plant grew. You're not supposed to pat down the soil because these little pockets act as easy areas for plants to grow so they dont meet resistance. The plant grew around these little pockets. It's like filling a glass vase with rocks and then sand. The sand doesnt cause the rocks to rise because it's just going around the cracks of the rocks.