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If you listen very closely...

YYCannabis said:
Interesting article about the noises that plants make when stressed. Make me rethink defoliating 🤣

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...plants-emitting-ultrasonic-squeals-180973716/
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If you somehow collected all of the screams of agony that have emanated from living organisms over the 3.5 billion year history of life what a calamitous sound it would make. Echoing, and reverberating through the uncountable aeons, doesn't one long for a comforting silence? I just whacked a fungus gnat , but I do not give a damn if it screamed!
 
I haven’t tread that one. I’ll send off an email to Santa and see if it’s not too late to make an amendment to my wish list.
I had read yrs ago that putting bright read plastic sheets around the base of tomato plants caused them to make larger leaves and fruit. The theory...”plants detected the red reflection as being underachieving, compared to neighboring plants, and had to increase in size to be better than the plants beside it.” (I’m paraphrasing that comment)

While the theory implies a sentient awareness of its surrounding environment, the reality is that the bright red plastic sheets just reflected red light up into the underside of the plants leaves. Whether that was enough extra photons to cause larger fruit, or if the plant really is sentient of it’s neighbors growth, it’s interesting results would be worth investigating further.
 
They have always known plants make sounds. Just never had instrumentation that could define it. Welcome to the future.
The noises are believed to be cavitation. If you have ever had the pleasure of listening to a pump experiencing cavitation then it’s not so amazing. Lol.
 
My inner nerd/sadist is wanting to make a device to listen to the plants and make recordings. Then play it back on loop in my tent...kinda along the lines of “The beatings will continue until morale improves” type of incentivizing to the other plants.
 
Toker1 said:
They have always known plants make sounds. Just never had instrumentation that could define it. Welcome to the future.
The noises are believed to be cavitation. If you have ever had the pleasure of listening to a pump experiencing cavitation then it’s not so amazing. Lol.
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This phenomenon of cavitation is amazing beyond human imagination, and still a mystery. I have been researching sonoluminescence for a number of years. http://acoustics-research.physics.ucla.edu/sonoluminescence/
 
Sort of a botanical Camp X-ray, or Abu Ghraib. I believe PaganRich has beaten you to the mark. His Amputation Alley is thoroughly immersed in blood curdling screams!
 
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I was thinking more along the lines of a Monty Python type of skit. Abu-Ghraib level would be inhumane even to weeds.
 
Aaaand I’m back and medicated....
Always recite the following when squishing a bug: “let that be a lesson to the rest of ya!” My grandma swore it worked at keeping ants and spiders out of the house.
 
What a plant knows. Another great book to read. maybe now we can hear what they’re saying to each other. Because they definitely communicate.
 
YYCannabis I think it's a little more complex than that, but I can't be scientific about my senses of the situation, because it's a sixth sense. There's this relationship that forms between the human caretaker and the plants. From seedling to curing buds; it continues to when I vape the bud. It's like Cannabis envelops me in a blanket of cannabinoids and terpenes, she really loves me and I love her.
 
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