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The Secret Life Of Plants

PepperDaddler

PepperDaddler

Anyone else ever see this? Is a classic and rare documentary, and one of my favorites.
 
"This is a higher resolution version of the classic and rare 1979 documentary.
Even on the lower levels of life, there is a profound consciousness or awareness that bonds all things together.
A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man." Essentially, the subject of the film is the idea that plants may be sentient, despite their lack of a nervous system and a brain. This sentience is observed primarily through changes in the plant's conductivity, as through a polygraph, as pioneered by Cleve Backster. The book also contains a summary of Goethe's theory of plant metamorphosis."
 
Skip to 6:50 to pass the intro.
P.S.:  Love this song when I am out gardening. Its a love song about plants!
 
 
 
 
I read the book but never knew there was a movie.  There is a great episode of "the nature of things" about the intelligence of plants and how we're just understanding how much they interact with the environment.  Things like sending out chemical signals to attract the predators of things that are eating them, hunting behaviour where plant growth seeks out prey, related seedlings not competing with one another, the coolest was how trees share nutrients are sugars through mycelium to help young trees that aren't getting enough light.
 
http://www.cbc.ca/player/Shows/Shows/The+Nature+of+Things/ID/2214084211/
 
That exact thing was just on the newest episode of Through The Wormhole (Science channel). Just saw it yesterday actually, very interesting stuff. Crazy how they give off those signals when being attacked, and how a specific vine "smells" out its plant victim.
 
Give the movie a watch. Its old but pretty good. Science with a little Stevie Wonder mixed in. Whats not to like about that?
 
PepperDaddler said:
Was it called "What plants talk about"?
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That's it.  I DVRed it a few weeks ago.  Some interesting ideas to experiment with.  I suspected my tomatoes were "telling each other" to ripen as the ones closest together would ripen pretty close to the same time.  I also suspect they "reach out" to each other because their branches would constantly intertwine (but that might just be because I put them too close together).
 
Here's a link.
 
 
So the obvious question, has anyone changed any of their gardening practices because of watching these vids?  I've always talked to them,  after reading the book the first time I started explaining and apologizing to them when I had to prune/transplant/kill one of them.  Since seeing the newer documentary I've actually been toying with the idea of planting sibling seeds together so their roots don't compete with one another, but I worry about increasing their vulnerability to pests/pathogens.
 
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