What kind of environment did the extra fertilizer create for the corn's roots?

Keep this in mind: What problem did the distilled bloodstream of the patient create?

The process of distillation involves boiling water, evaporated, and condensing the vapour. This created hypotonic environment in the patient’s bloodstream . The cells were then dissolved in water, until they burst.

The next question is: What type of environment is hypotonic?" Hypotonic environments have a higher water concentration outside of the cell than inside. This is because the interior of the cells is hypertonic relative to the hypotonic environment. The cell's net water flow is the inside.

This is why plants can thrive in hypotonic environments.

Hypotonic environments are preferred by plants because water from the environment is absorbed into the cells and stored in vacuoles. The cell walls will be subject to turgor pressure by the vacuoles, which helps maintain their structure.

Is fertilizer too strong?

Because the fertilizer wasn't dissolved in water, the hypertonic environment was created by the additional fertilizer. This resulted in a surplus of the solvent, but not enough. Hypotonic is the state of the environment around plants when they are watered with 100 percent water solution.