livelife8345
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NICE!! =) plus rep good stuff
"How plants communicate"
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ChickenChaser
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Plants are amazing things, Anyone seen the Secret Life of Plants programme? Why do they give off that potent smell? Is it to attract insects to they can reproduce?
jberry
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i have the book.... i didnt know it was a program.... i would like to see that!
ChickenChaser
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Yeah you should check it out, some very strange plants out there, they speed the filming up so it shows a weeks growth in one minute.
ChickenChaser
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktIGVtKdgwo Its actually called the private life of plants.
jberry
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i just finally checked out that link and that seems pretty interesting, the guy who invented it has a lot of impressive credentials, and that makes me curious if this could actually work well. do u know anyone who has tried this?
the website kinda reminds me of the "Superthrive" label (crazy)
i will admit that i am intrigued and would like to run some tests with sonic bloom to see what happens.
Funk Doctor
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nice read mate + rep, only thing is with that quote, it can't be significant can it? i mean what about all the scrog growers that yield ridiculous amounts, guess i requires quite a bit of veg so bigger buds anyway but just seems to be a bit overly cautious. just a thought, what do you all say?
Funk Doctor
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yeah makes sense mate 
svchop889
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that's interesting maybe its possible that they can communicate gender by secreting chemicals into the soil possibly effecting the gender outcome of the plant, if there is two males in one pot one might become hermaphrodite just to reproduce or vise versa with two females
a saw something not long ago about how plants that are clones of themselves communicate much more adepty with other clones via chemical messages released in the root zone. apparently a clone under attack from certain things would be better able to prepare another clone for the nescessary adjustments than it could prepare a plant not identical to itself (though even of the same species). clones understood chemical messages of other clones better than from a sister or relative.
so a plant produced from seed may not aide it's mother in fighting off a pest attack... but two clones sharing the same reservoir may be more successfull at sharing useful information.
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so a plant produced from seed may not aide it's mother in fighting off a pest attack... but two clones sharing the same reservoir may be more successfull at sharing useful information.
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that might be an intersting experiment...
with a few thousand seeds you could test germination outcomes for seeds planted individually, in pairs, etc. within a certain proximity... and acheive a statistically significant outcome... if there was one.
i wouldn't put it past possible that by the time sex is shown the plants havn't used certain information from other plants in determining sex. its been shown that certain stressors can increase the likelihood of a plant going 'hermy'. i've also read what seemed to be a fairly straight-forward scientific study which suggested that planting seeds in a container less than 4" deep (marijunana seeds) could increase the number of males in a population by as much as 1% (by impeding the tap root at a young age).
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romano
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Yeah I grow in hempy buckets, that would make it easy to do test gender outcomes for seeds planted individually, in pairs, etc. but i only go through about 20 seeds at a time!! And I know MY outcome of two seeds in one pot ...50/50 , which in my opinion aint that great.
I also grow in a quart sized pot < need to go up to 1/2 gal!! Thanks gambler
I also grow in a quart sized pot < need to go up to 1/2 gal!! Thanks gambler
riddleme
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Calling all experienced growers, looking for others that know how to dial in the perfect enviroment???
let me explain I found this thread and talked about it in mine mentioning a hypothetical (quote comming) Then I had an experience that made me think I was on to something, here is what happened
let me explain I found this thread and talked about it in mine mentioning a hypothetical (quote comming) Then I had an experience that made me think I was on to something, here is what happened
Wonder if anyone has had a similar experience or could dial in a perfect enviroment and test my theory???Quote:
Originally Posted by riddleme
(can't ever seem to stop researching)
this one in advanced forum
"How plants communicate"
Edit, here I found it interesting that plants give off oders to protect themselves and warn each other
Matilda has no odor what so ever (must not be in danger) wouldn't it be cool if a perfect enviroment was the real answer to odor control?????
WOW, I may be on to something here, I put what I said earlier in the thread in quotes to make my point.
Yesterday I had Matilda out of her home for watering (and adjusting LST) now she is in her 6th week with out a single ounce of odor and I mean no smell at all even if I put my nose right on her.
When I went to put her back I accedentally bumped her into a chair back and she shook hard and boy did she give off a hard skunky odor, I actually thought I had been sprayed by a skunk. I put her back in her home and within ten minutes the smell was gone and has not been back since.
I am thinking that to her the bump on the chair was like a predatory animal walking past her, so she gave off the skunk odor to protect herself.
Wouldn't it be interesting if that skunk odor that everybody likes only comes from improperly grown plants???
Food for thought
