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First bloom of the Sharry Baby (my first orchid), and the dendrobium phal is coming in nice.
It's every young orchid grower's dream: a terrarium for miniatures and small plants! I still need to get a couple grow lights, so the plants are only for reference right now. But I have a fan and thermometer/hygrometer so far!
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I now have three big Vanda orchids. Vandas are my absolute favorite orchids, but they're a pain to grow in Michigan without a real greenhouse because of the cold season. That's why I like the smaller vandas that I have, like Ascofinetia (Vanda) Cherry Blossom and Neostylis (Vandachostylis) Lou Sneary 'Blue Bird' because they don't need as much light and are easier to grow under grow lights due to their small size. Pictured (from left to right) are: Vanda Robert's Delight 'Red Berry', Vanda Pakchong Blue, and Vanda Pachara Delight 'Pink'
I now have three big Vanda orchids. Vandas are my absolute favorite orchids, but they're a pain to grow in Michigan without a real greenhouse because of the cold season. That's why I like the smaller vandas that I have, like Ascofinetia (Vanda) Cherry Blossom and Neostylis (Vandachostylis) Lou Sneary 'Blue Bird' because they don't need as much light and are easier to grow under grow lights due to their small size. Pictured (from left to right) are: Vanda Robert's Delight 'Red Berry', Vanda Pakchong Blue, and Vanda Pachara Delight 'Pink'
I now have three big Vanda orchids. Vandas are my absolute favorite orchids, but they're a pain to grow in Michigan without a real greenhouse because of the cold season. That's why I like the smaller vandas that I have, like Ascofinetia (Vanda) Cherry Blossom and Neostylis (Vandachostylis) Lou Sneary 'Blue Bird' because they don't need as much light and are easier to grow under grow lights due to their small size. Pictured (from left to right) are: Vanda Robert's Delight 'Red Berry', Vanda Pakchong Blue, and Vanda Pachara Delight 'Pink'
I now have three big Vanda orchids. Vandas are my absolute favorite orchids, but they're a pain to grow in Michigan without a real greenhouse because of the cold season. That's why I like the smaller vandas that I have, like Ascofinetia (Vanda) Cherry Blossom and Neostylis (Vandachostylis) Lou Sneary 'Blue Bird' because they don't need as much light and are easier to grow under grow lights due to their small size. Pictured (from left to right) are: Vanda Robert's Delight 'Red Berry', Vanda Pakchong Blue, and Vanda Pachara Delight 'Pink'
Idk what kind of orchid this is but I think it's a Dendrobium Phalaenopsis and wow this time's flowers are PERFECT. Almost award worthy maybe.
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And on your phone! golly I have so many plant pictures on my phone.
This is a plant from the genus Trachyandra, specifically known as a Crassula succulent. They are mostly found throughout southern Africa and Madagascar.
I am reblogging so I can look into this more closely. Because 1. That looks kind of like polymer clay; and 2. Crassula is a genus of succulent, containing over 1400 species of plant, and I’m on mobile.
I can never tell if succulents I haven’t seen are real or not because all succulents look fake in the first place
Here to tell you HAPPILY cause i love these plants that they are in fact real BUT the actual name of the plant is Trachyandra tortilis! They also come in a flat leaf version with curled or wavy leaves!!
These are delightful i need twenty
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So my Grandma apparently is running a plant hospital and rehabilitation center. She can get anything to grow abundantly, so in the past few decades people have literally started dropping off sick and dying plants to her and she would nurse them back to health and return them. She only charges a single clipping from each of the plants she nurses. 🌱🌿🍃I’m so proud of my Plant Doctor Grandma! 😌
This is amazing! Does she take notes of her work?
Yes she does. She has a whole journal that details care for certain diseases and plants. She takes it so seriously.
Does she share her notes at all? I want to get better at recognizing the frailties of plants in different conditions and if they are public at all I would love to read your grandmother’s work.
I will to her about getting her plant research published. She has the funniest notes in there too. Reminders about which plants belong to who, Recipes for natural bug-be-gone, and elaborate descriptions of blooms and even some pressed flowers in there. She’s so important in our community and she also grows sugar cane and vegetables she just gives away.
This is incredible.
She says she has over 250 potted “tenants” at her home right now. Between 30 to 40 belong to other people and she’s just nursing them. And countless “permanent residents” in the ground.
Grandmother of the garden. I love it!!! 🌱🌳🌿💚
is it possible that plants have consciousness?
this is actually a small sub branch of botany thats been growing and gaining some recognition in the past 5 years or so called plant cognition! we’ve been thinking about if plants can possibly be intelligent to any degree for centuries, but the main paper that started up this huge discussion in the modern era was one called Experience Teaches Plants to Learn Faster and Forget Slower in Environments Where It Matters by Monica Gagliano, a plant researcher in Australia who specializes in it. because the results indicated that plants were possible of learning and retaining information in a kind of memory in response to environmental changes, it received a lot of backlash and denial- generally in science, that kind of intelligent reaction to an organism’s environment is a good indicator of cognitive behavior in the organism. it got rejected by 10 different journals before being published in 2014.
the experiment worked like this. i’ve talked before about mimosa pudica, a tropical plant that curls its leaves back when touched (they go back to normal in a few minutes):
this is to help deter predators among other things. but in this experiment, Gagliano used it as an indicator of stimulus and to test cognitive function. It’s well known that pudica has a rudimentary nervous system that can even be temporarily inhibited using anesthetics (just like ours can!). she hooked up a ton of these plants in pots to identical rail systems that allowed them to be lightly dropped in an identical way, juuuuust heavy enough to trigger the stimulus so all the leaves drop down when they hit the bottom (a piece of foam so they wouldn’t actually hurt the plants). every time the plants would be dropped, they would close up.
but after the plants were dropped about 60 times each, they stopped responding to the drop.
they remembered that no harm was coming from this action and decided that it was against their best interests to keep expending energy closing their leaves. they 200% learned to stop.
she decided to test it further. she put some of the plants in a shaker and let them receive a more jarring response; the plants closed up as usual. then, she put them back in the droppers and dropped them again. they didn’t close up. they had remembered that response. this dispels the obvious rebuttal to this experiment of the plants just being tired; they still closed up when stimulated differently.
they just chose not to close up when they hit a stimulus they remembered.
it turns out that not only could they remember to keep their leaves open when dropped on the apparatus, but they remembered after 28 days when she kept testing it!! apparently by the end of the experiment, all the plants had decided to keep their leaves open when dropped!!!!
how do they do this?? we literally dont know. they have no central brain, only a basic nervous system. can other plants do this???
well, adding onto that, venus fly traps can count! like. they have three hairs inside their traps, and all three must be touched within 20 seconds for the trap to close. once closed, those three trigger hairs must continue to be stimulated by thrashing prey, or the trap will reopen.
so yeah like. basically ‘are they sentient’: apparently to an extent???? we dont know exactly why or how but they are??? maybe???? sort of????? at least some of them are?? but they dont have a brain so everyones like????????????????????? maybe its through a signaling network????????????????? but like how would that even work?????????
plant consciousness is still new enough to be dismissed as crazy by a lot of biologists but like. the evidence is there. we don’t know a whole lot and its clearly a radically different kind of intelligence than we know in animals, but it’s there and we 200% dont know how it works yet or even the full extent of how plants use this intelligence (for example: does a redwood have the same intelligence as a venus fly trap?? how does it learn things and use that knowledge???)
national geographic wrote an awesome article visualizing the experiment here if you want to read more!
I’m really suspicious of the conclusion presented here because you could also use that to argue that single cells, including bacteria, are cognizant because they can store information. Like, some bacteria can take pieces of phage (viruses that infect bacteria) DNA and “remember” that DNA sequence to target for destruction if it or its progeny is ever infected with a similar phage again. But that’s not really how we think of cognitive memory. Our immune system also has ways of storing information for decades, but I doubt most people would argue that our immune system has consciousness.
I just think it’s useful to distinguish between stored sensory responses signalling and what the practical definition of cognition is.
I think at this point, it kind of gets into a discussion on scientific philosophy; at what point is something intelligent? Is replicating stored information, as you brought up, just something that happens? You could also call a calculator intelligent, if replication and learning behavior = cognition. Overall I think that’s a really good point.
The fact of it is, we need more information. We know that plants send signals around at a level we don’t understand, using methods we don’t understand. A lot of people would ask the question, “well, can they feel things? Like emotions?” Because that’s a common indicator to us of higher cognition. Basically, “are they like us?”
So when challenging this argument, I think there are two broad sides: 1. Plants are intelligent but have a different form of cognition than us so we don’t think of them as conventionally intelligent, or 2. Plants have behaviors that allow them to survive, and some of these behaviors include complex communication.
Moss is not a weed, moss is not undesirable, moss in the grass is not bad. Mosses are the best plants there are, and yet, the garden centres only sell stuff that rids you of moss. But who’d say no to a lawn made out of this soft and vibrant green plant?
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A perfect 10 months old seedling. Had to move some of them out of their pot to give the remaining seedlings room to grow even bigger.
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