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Reductionism to the rescue ...
QuoteA somewhat romantic idea has crept into both scientific and popular culture: that forests are cooperative places, where trees communicate or interact with each other through underground networks of fungi, called mycorrhizal networks. Researchers conducted a review of the evidence for interactions via fungi and found inconsistent results and weak testing methodology.
Why this matters: In forests, individual selection favors competition, with trees vying for resources in a way that would prevent group benefits. Tree cooperation, as suggested by some tree scientists, goes against those principles.What the experts say: This controversy is fascinating because “it’s an example of people wanting to project their own values into nature and of them wanting to see in nature a model for human behavior,” says Kathryn Flynn, a plant community ecologist at Baldwin Wallace University in Ohio. -
Slim pickings but better than nothing ...
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https://foodmedcenter.org/study-spotlight-take-away-with-chef-dr-mike-planting-a-seed/
2023 study shows plant consciousness and intelligence ...
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Love the way the colours change throughout the year. But still no clue as to genetics.
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Looking for viable seeds, plant, etc. M. hirsuta or related species.
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Great lecture for anyone interested in music ...
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On 3/23/2021 at 6:43 AM, Halcyon Daze said:
I've long wondered about the history of these 'Ogun' clones, particularly what happened in the time between you guys receiving them in the mail and Ogunbodede's analysis. Approximately how long were they grown out before the analysis took place, or did that take place pretty much immediately after they came out of the post. Do you think the long period in the darkness had any effect on the study's results? There seems to be a popular thought that they were analysed soon after their long period in the dark and therefore placing cuts in the dark may be a beneficial practice. Any other interesting things to add about Ogun's history? It's certainly garnered a bit of a cult following after the awesome study. Cheers
A bit of "legend" I found at another website https://trichopedia.org/clones/ogunbodede/
The ogunbodede clone is named after the lead researcher who compiled a chemical analysis study in 2010. According to legend, Ogunbodede sourced many plants for this study, but one box got lost in the mail. That box had two cuttings from a pachanoi in Matucana, Peru. After almost a year MIA, a beat up box arrived with two cuts that had almost mummified during the journey. One was used in the analysis and the data was an outlier more than two standard deviations above the mean. Instead of looking into the variable that caused the discrepancy, they included it in the report as is. The other cutting was planted, and dispersed throughout the cactus community with the Ogunbodede name. Sacred Succulents did most of the original dispersion. As for looks, it has that smooth Matucana pach vibe. Short spines and a nice green dermis help set it apart from other pachanoi varieties, but it's indistinguishable from other Matucana or landrace pachs.
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2 hours ago, withdrawl clinic said:
i will put some of my pedro cut's, indoors, so they produce slim and etiolated growth.
^ yes, vascular bundle of the core is (generally) too thick on mature-growth San Pedro; it will tend to push the button off the rootstock. Young growth, pups work best.
Tricho seedlings is probably my favourite (most foolproof) grafting method, as you can sit the rootstock (just a few inches) on its own roots in a small glass jar, then hold everything (including the button) in place with a taut layer of cling film, 3 days max.
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I've had success grafting both halves (top and bottom) of various LW buttons to San Pedro pups / tricho seedlings. But these grafts invariably throw new pups rather than grow as a single giant button. +1 on barely watering a LW, even if grafted to a tricho rootstock.
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Spines are a good clue.
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Kratom degrades quickly, in a matter of months after leaf is harvested.
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I seem to cultivate more snails in my garden than I do plants. I don't mind them. I usually throw them over the front fence, onto the nature strip. But wouldn't you know, some of them cross the footpath, climb the brick wall, heading back to their favourite spot in my garden. I've read about snail homing before, so it was interesting to observe. Found this guide to studying snail movements in your garden: http://www.urbanfieldnaturalist.org/resources/guide-to-snail-homing
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I've now watched 2 documentaries based on original post. The Phenomenon (2020) and The Ariel Phenomenon (2022). Both captivating (the latter featuring John Mack, the Harvard researcher mentioned above). Some of the Zimbabwean elders describe a cultural history of observing UFOs.
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On 10/19/2024 at 1:30 PM, saguaro said:
Has anyone else been seeing the large drones that fly in grid patterns lately? I first saw them pop up about 5 years ago, and they have been flying in a grid more or less every day since. They appear at night just as it gets dark, and I have seen them until 4AM, but presumably they remain until it gets light enough and they are not camouflaged with the stars.
Could it be Lord Elon's StarLink satellite train? What a blight on the night sky.
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https://russellbroadbent.com.au/australiansdemandanswers/
Some distinguished co-signatories in this parliamentary letter to Albo, calling for an immediate suspension of mRNA vaccine deployments in Oz, pending precautionary investigation of synthetic DNA contamination claims. Just saying.
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Refuting the reality of a "Wood Wide Web" (Scientific American)
in Pharmacology, Chemistry & Medicine
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Yes, but the charge being laid against the romanticists is precisely that ... of anthropomorphism. The fact that late-capitalist subjects see an iron law of competition (of nature red in tooth and claw; a merciless struggle for existence) could be, by the same token, a symptomatic extrapolation of existing economic and social relations (including a reflection of scientific research cultures). Yet the phenomenon of "mutual aid" is an observable fact, even among human societies: competition and cooperation are complementary aspects of an evolutionary biological process. Perhaps further research is needed, rather than settling back into Darwinian fundamentalisms, and either/or dualisms: competition and cooperation.