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Post by feather on Dec 11, 2019 0:20:24 GMT
I think I'd like a microphone for the tomatoes, just to make sure we are watering and they are comfortable.  |
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Post by Woodpecker on Dec 11, 2019 15:03:46 GMT
I can relate to only house plants with the above signals etc. I have one day, one room at a time per week that I water my house plants, until the water comes out of the bottom. I talk to my plants  . I touch their leaves...I have plants started in the 70's, 80's & 90's. They're my babies. I don't route anything anymore, I simply will fill in a plant with cuttings that have routed, but will not make another plant. I love house plants and they love me, but enough plants is enough! They do like when I talk to them  |
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Post by feather on Dec 11, 2019 15:59:53 GMT
Dh thinks we've done fairly well without a microphone.  I also talk with my outside plants and cheer them on when they are doing 'oh so well', 'good job!, 'look at you' Dh brags about the tomato plants' accomplishments, 'did you look at that one, it has 30 tomatoes on it'. We try not to argue in front of the plants.  |
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Post by mogal on Dec 11, 2019 16:12:33 GMT
I talk to my plants too, indoors and out. They respond well but the good light, adequate water, "weakly, weekly" fertilizer might have a little to do with it as well. If I didn't love them, I wouldn't have them and I use the same phrases Feather does.
My mother complained that she also talked to her plants but they died anyway. One of her favorite things to say to them was "Grow, d*** you!" But then she had very little light in her house and didn't pay much attention to their other needs. I had a beautiful Norfolk Island pine for my apartment, maybe 2 1/2' tall that I decorated with miniature ornaments for Christmas one year. When I moved to another town, she demanded the tree and insisted that it would survive the winter planted in her flowerbed. It didn't.
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Dec 11, 2019 18:00:00 GMT
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Post by feather on Dec 11, 2019 18:16:12 GMT
It is cool, isn't it. I wondered how a butter fly knew to find the particular plant it likes the best. Like the monarch and the milk weed. Maybe the milk weed plant sends out a certain scent, or gives off a certain peaceful sound, that the monarch can detect, but we can't.
We are deaf to any sound above 20 kilohertz. If we are deaf but animals/insects/bugs aren't, then we are missing a lot of signals. I also wondered, when people have migraines that are not triggered by anything they know, if maybe they are triggered by sounds or smells most of us can't detect.
Like children that go into anaphylactic shock, from another kid in the classroom eating a peanut butter sandwich. Just a few molecules in the air that no one would notice, except the child sensitive to peanuts.
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Post by mogal on Dec 11, 2019 21:13:45 GMT
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Post by feather on Dec 11, 2019 21:26:10 GMT
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Dec 11, 2019 21:38:52 GMT
Oh my word! That was so fantastic and hilarious - I still have a smile on my face whilst I am typing this. Boy oh boy, now I'll never look at the veggies in my garden the same way either. I thought about preparing roasted vegetables tonight. Now, I'm not so sure as I would be imagining the agonizing screams that I cannot hear emanating from my oven. Thanks so much for sharing mogal, I'm really looking forward to sharing that with my husband tonight. I love it when we laugh together... ~Mari |
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Post by Woodpecker on Dec 12, 2019 15:03:21 GMT
HA!!! Whenever I told people I talked to my plants and touched their leaves, they thought I was nuts! I've been talking to them, every one of them when I water, for years. As a matter of fact, I just realized, while walking to go upstairs, I touched "thief" a loving pat. Thief was a plant that someone was throwing away at the curb. It was spring time, as my daughter and I went to her house and saw it.
Once we left, we were hoping the plant was still there...bingo! we stopped and put it in the trunk. I have no Idea what type of plant it is, it has two tall stems & on the top a lot of dark green and white stripes on the leaves. We've had it here since 2011 and it's doing great, just has another stem with little leaves coming up. I will never forget that day!
Plants are like people, they need a lot of love and care.
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. I touch their leaves...I have plants started in the 70's, 80's & 90's. They're my babies.
