• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    We kidnapped these plants from their homes and keep them prisoner inside some weird unmoist place where the sun is missing. Wat u expect

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    I got a spider plant at a school fundraiser when I was in first grade. It lived until I moved out of my parents’ house at 18. My mom said she’d take care of it. She threw it out one day. I was sad.

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    It’s not dead. You can crawl around on a single live wire as much as you want with proper grounding when getting to it. As in, you don’t touch the live and ground wire at the same time.

    Slip, and your foot touches the other wire though? Yeah, you cooked or in for a drop.

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      You absolutely can not touch a live wire if you’re grounded. Birds (and this plant somehow) do it by landing on the live wire without being in contact with ground.

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        10 months ago

        I think it must be a trabslatranslation error or so, because yeah you should NEVER touch live if you’re grounded haha 😅

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      It appears to be some sort of bromeliad. Many bromeliad species don’t really have roots, but instead grow on top of rocks or other plants like trees. They get their water and nutrients from the atmosphere directly rather than from their roots. Some species even have leaf shapes that make like a bucket in the center to capture water to use. Anyways, they’re cool plants. And some have absolutely beautiful flowers.

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        10 months ago

        I was 1000% expecting to get rick rolled or helled in a cell, thanks for the interesting facts!

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      Possibly a seed that survived a bird’s digestive tract and had enough shit and nutrients to get that far. Not long for the world, though.

      Bonus: fish populating an isolated pond can be caused by a birds as well

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      The trick is to have a living soil. Without bacteria, mycelium, wild yeasts, and other microbes, you may as well be planting plants in moon dust.

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        10 months ago

        I have well over 100 plants all planted in lechuza pon and they are thriving! It’s an absolute game changer for aroids. No soil in this household.

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          I love Hydroponics specifically because it removes soil. And it turns out that a very large majority of pests basically need that soil to set up shop so when you get rid of soil you get rid of a lot of common pest problems.

          Also be careful if you do it with tomatoes, turns out that being a plant made up 90% of water means that you absolutely love being in a giant bucket of water and grow fucking out of control

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      10 months ago

      If this is a legitimate concern, my grandmother used to tell me to boil the water and then let it cool down, this will remove the chlorine.

      I’m always done it I’m not sure if it actually helps plants much. She also said to always use room temp water

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        10 months ago

        I… Is that true? Can someone with more chemistry knowledge than me confirm?

        Boiling removes oxygen, I know that…

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        10 months ago

        It doesn’t matter to us but it’s harder on plants

        Having said that I’m sure (from experience) you can keep plants alive just using the tap