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Re: Crown shyness

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post #10

Another crown phenomenon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krummholz And something that prevents many trees from being grown indoors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wood Trees will lead you down a glorious wikipedia black hole.

What does reaction wood have to do with growing plants indoors?

There's typically no wind indoors.

http://awesci.com/the-role-of-wind-in-a-trees-life/

Re: Crown shyness

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post #7

>Plants are able to sense the proximity of neighbors by sensing backscattered far-red (FR) Plants can see ? I had no idea.

They also can "scream" by giving off a pulse (that humans can't hear) when attacked and can "talk" to each other by giving off chemicals when attacked by insects, thereby warning neighboring relatives to start creating protective chemicals to defend themselves.

Re: Crown shyness

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post #12
post #7

>Plants are able to sense the proximity of neighbors by sensing backscattered far-red (FR) Plants can see ? I had no idea.

They also can "scream" by giving off a pulse (that humans can't hear) when attacked and can "talk" to each other by giving off chemicals when attacked by insects, thereby warning neighboring relatives to start creating protective chemicals to defend themselves.

I will never again feel safe in the woods.

Re: Crown shyness

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post #13
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also can "scream" by giving off a pulse (that humans can't hear) when attacked and can "talk" to each other by giving off chemicals when attacked by insects, thereby warning neighboring relatives to start creating protective chemicals to defend themselves.

I will never again feel safe in the woods.

I stopped obsessing about the supposed morality of eating meat after I learned these things. Just because you can't hear your veggies scream doesn't mean they aren't suffering.

(There are lots of really good reasons to limit meat consumption. But, the touchy-feely appeal to "think about the suffering of the animals" is species-ist (for lack of a better word).)

Re: Crown shyness

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Another crown phenomenon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krummholz And something that prevents many trees from being grown indoors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wood Trees will lead you down a glorious wikipedia black hole.

You could say that you go down a tree of exploration on Wikipedia. https://xkcd.com/214/

Re: Crown shyness

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Another crown phenomenon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krummholz And something that prevents many trees from being grown indoors https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_wood Trees will lead you down a glorious wikipedia black hole.

Why is Wikipedia incapable of seeing that I'm on a desktop computer from my User-Agent and redirecting me to the desktop site? Gah!
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