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black-tea · 2018-11-11 11:14:15

You talk to a plant at work?

cscurmudgeon | karma 2720 | avg karma 1.34 · | 2013-03-17 15:19:50+00:00

Ah. I did not know I was talking to a plant. My bad.

JasonCEC | karma 486 | avg karma 2.88 · | 2022-01-15 13:06:29

I do not currently (yet?) talk to my plants; we use them as names to refer to the plant and to prescribe them personalities.

helpfulContrib | karma 317 | avg karma 0.74 · | 2023-09-12 14:26:03

Talk to the plants! They'll tell ya!

badrabbit | karma 7868 | avg karma 1.33 · | 2022-01-14 15:54:12

Do you talk or whisper to them or is it to introduce them to friends or to other plants?

carapace | karma 9859 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2022-04-11 09:52:39

Some people are really friendly with plants, and the plants tell them how to do these things.

doggodaddo78 | karma 409 | avg karma 0.96 · | 2021-05-12 00:32:15

Damn plant halo effect biases. Ugly plants have great personalities if they'd try chatting with them.

Frazmatazz | karma 26 | avg karma 1.13 · | 2021-10-13 21:13:12

Its literally what plants do.

mousetree | karma 698 | avg karma 2.74 · | 2024-06-16 11:20:01

Plant

truegoric | karma 103 | avg karma 5.42 · | 2023-11-14 05:01:58

Or perhaps we could tune in and learn to communicate with the plants.

DigitalDesignDj | karma 0 | avg karma 0.0 · | 2014-07-29 22:28:22+00:00

This is an excellent presentation in the same thread.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/what-plants-talk-abo...

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johgoy | karma -5 | avg karma -1.0 · | 2023-09-09 20:02:05

Isn't it what plants do?

bartmika | karma 242 | avg karma 3.9 · | 2022-09-29 09:06:34

Meanwhile:

Ginkgo Tree: “Hey plants, how come no one told us this idea?”

Kentucky Coffee Tree: “Wait, what’s an animal?”

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Pe1er | karma 1 | avg karma 0.5 · | 2021-07-26 10:30:17

So maybe it makes sense to speak with your plants ; ) Anyway don't find it that surprising. Basically it seems a natural advantage to have such warning mechanism.

kirsebaer | karma 539 | avg karma 3.41 · | 2014-11-12 14:49:09+00:00

PBS documentary "What Plants Talk About" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrG-42uCDj4

nullindividual | karma 1961 | avg karma 1.71 · | 2024-02-03 10:09:23

We know plants communicate with each other via chemicals. Perhaps we need a chemical -> sound translator.

nnash | karma 139 | avg karma 0.86 · | 2010-07-18 18:13:25

Cleve Baxter did a lot of research on this, and his experiments were even featured on an episode of myth busters. His research indicated that plants can sense a humans intentions. He figured this out by attaching polygraphs to plants and then directing negative thoughts towards the plant (cutting, burning etc.). The polygraph then went haywire, but when he thought nice things about the plant the polygraph stayed normal.

cyberferret | karma 9059 | avg karma 5.08 · | 2016-08-07 21:37:36+00:00

Very cool. Coincidentally, I watched this fascinating talk by Suzanne Simard only yesterday, on how trees 'talk' to each other... http://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_ea...

hammock | karma 21036 | avg karma 3.03 · | 2022-05-14 23:01:29

You mean like what a plant does?

rdedev | karma 610 | avg karma 2.17 · | 2022-06-26 14:49:09

Isnt plant communication an active field of research ? I remember reading about how plants in a field can communicate changes in environment (like a bug infestation) with one another.