Lol. I was impressed to see a seedling growing out of a rock just an hour ago… you win.
Some textbook: Marijuana is a hearty plant that will grow anywhere and spread profusely, from where it gets the name “weed”
14yo me failing to grow pot in a clearing in the woods: fuckin liars
How?
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.
I was 1000% expecting to get rick rolled or helled in a cell, thanks for the interesting facts!
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
How the fish?
Birds will sometimes get fish eggs stuck to their feet, and when they try to fish isolated ponds the eggs will break free and populate the water
Ohh that’s pretty cool
Birds of pollination
Life uh…finds a way
Jokes on you, I keep dandelions as houseplants
While aeroponics are cool and interesting as hell, I’m pretty sure this is a bromeliad which are adapted to living on tree branches. They collect and hold water using funnel style leaves, not through aeroponics style root mist.
Neat! I just knew that it was possible for plants to grow pretty much anywhere, but now I know about bromeliads.
They can actually become a serious problem.
Now that’s a shitty job to clean up
Bromeliads are awesome. The whole concept of epiphytes (which many bromeliads are) is cool. They require other plants to survive, but they generally aren’t parasitic.
Cool!! I didn’t know that word! Thank you, bud!
I’ve had plenty of houseplants that are basically immortal.
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.
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.
Hydroponics what
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
Wtf?
This is survivor bias in action.
Fuck i need to water my snake plant
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.
Who throws out a plant
Especially one their kid took care of for that long, that’s just fucked up.
Rainwater typically had less chlorine and fluoride
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
I… Is that true? Can someone with more chemistry knowledge than me confirm?
Boiling removes oxygen, I know that…
Yup it will. In fact well before the water boils the chlorine will have come out of solution.
It used to be more true, when straight chlorine was what was used. Now most municipalities use chloramine, which is more stable. Most plants don’t care, but it’s an issue for fish, so there are “water conditioner” products for aquariums that remove both chlorine and chloramine.
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.
Slip, and your foot touches the other wire though? Yeah, you cooked or in for a drop.
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.
I think it must be a trabslatranslation error or so, because yeah you should NEVER touch live if you’re grounded haha 😅
“As in you don’t touch the live and ground wire at the same time.”
Misunderstanding apparently but the original comment says the same thing you guys just said.
We kidnapped these plants from their homes and keep them prisoner inside some weird unmoist place where the sun is missing. Wat u expect
unmoist
Speak for yourself
Seriously. I wish.
Houseplants: “man I really don’t vibe with this dirt”
*dies*
Wildplants: “what dirt?”
