digitS'
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They have moved behind the steering wheel! (Yes, the digitS' on the gas pedal are still in woolsocks
.)Steve
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They have moved behind the steering wheel! (Yes, the digitS' on the gas pedal are still in woolsocks
.)Steve
so lucky
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Lots of potential groceries there, Steve.
lesa
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That looks like a nice start!! So much promise...
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digitS'
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Do we ever begin to wonder ..
. who is "running things" after seeds germinate and begin to grow?
Are we still "running things" or is this once again how life takes control of us and our activities?
Steve
. who is "running things" after seeds germinate and begin to grow?
Are we still "running things" or is this once again how life takes control of us and our activities?
Steve
Larisa
Deeply Rooted
You from the beginning were under the "voluntary control". It's like a symbiotic relationship with life, energy exchange. We have invested energy, plants have returned to us more. You gave them another. This egregore for those who communicate with plants. Who is the main controller? Which of the seven notes major in the music?
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digitS'
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Egregore (also egregor) is an occult concept representing a "thoughtform" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. From French égrégore (“spirit of a group”),[1] from the Ancient Greek substantive of ἐγρήγορος (egrḗgoros, “wakeful”) meaning watcher, angel ...
I like that @Larisa ! It was a word first used by Victor Hugo, according to Wikipedia. You are using it for plants -- and, that makes sense to me.
It is an idea that seems to fit well with Aspen trees. Wikipedia: All of the aspens typically grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling, and spread by means of root suckers; new stems in the colony may appear at up to 30–40 m (98–131 ft) from the parent tree. Each individual tree can live for 40–150 years above ground, but the root system of the colony is long-lived. In some cases, this is for thousands of years ...
It is best for me to think of plant species and varieties as collectives and that we are in partnership with our domesticated plants. We may use them for building materials, fiber, food, etc. but we sustain them in their lives and reproduction. Yes, symbiotic!
Steve
I like that @Larisa ! It was a word first used by Victor Hugo, according to Wikipedia. You are using it for plants -- and, that makes sense to me.
It is an idea that seems to fit well with Aspen trees. Wikipedia: All of the aspens typically grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling, and spread by means of root suckers; new stems in the colony may appear at up to 30–40 m (98–131 ft) from the parent tree. Each individual tree can live for 40–150 years above ground, but the root system of the colony is long-lived. In some cases, this is for thousands of years ...
It is best for me to think of plant species and varieties as collectives and that we are in partnership with our domesticated plants. We may use them for building materials, fiber, food, etc. but we sustain them in their lives and reproduction. Yes, symbiotic!
Steve
Larisa
Deeply Rooted
A good example of a wasp! Acacia also help each other.
South African biologist van Hoven of the University of Pretoria, studying the causes of the mass deaths of kudu antelope living in the Kruger National Park. Their deaths occurred due to eating acacia leaves.
Analysis of the stomach contents of dead antelopes showed that the leaves of acacia, which they ate, grew the concentration of tannin - a toxic substance that destroys the liver of animals. Consequently, acacia protect themselves from animals if emits more tannin.
It turned out that not only deters acacia animal itself, but also prevents other trees of the risks they face. When herbivores attack on one acacia, others Acacia are rapidly increasing in their leaves tannin concentration.
When antelope chew the leaves, ethylene is released, which is carried by the wind. A high concentration of ethylene used for other trees to increase signal tannin in the leaves. That is why the "eating of" acacia antelope kudu leads to "poison" the leaves of the neighboring trees, in the direction of the wind, which acts as a physical carrier signal.
"Collecting plants, it is necessary to apologize for the harm caused to them and to assure them that day and your own body will serve them food."
Carlos Castaneda. Journey to Ixtlan.
South African biologist van Hoven of the University of Pretoria, studying the causes of the mass deaths of kudu antelope living in the Kruger National Park. Their deaths occurred due to eating acacia leaves.
Analysis of the stomach contents of dead antelopes showed that the leaves of acacia, which they ate, grew the concentration of tannin - a toxic substance that destroys the liver of animals. Consequently, acacia protect themselves from animals if emits more tannin.
It turned out that not only deters acacia animal itself, but also prevents other trees of the risks they face. When herbivores attack on one acacia, others Acacia are rapidly increasing in their leaves tannin concentration.
When antelope chew the leaves, ethylene is released, which is carried by the wind. A high concentration of ethylene used for other trees to increase signal tannin in the leaves. That is why the "eating of" acacia antelope kudu leads to "poison" the leaves of the neighboring trees, in the direction of the wind, which acts as a physical carrier signal.
"Collecting plants, it is necessary to apologize for the harm caused to them and to assure them that day and your own body will serve them food."
Carlos Castaneda. Journey to Ixtlan.
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digitS'
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Nearly every single plant out there and the greenhouse furnace failed yesterday morning. It was only 30°f but everything was white when I looked out the kitchen window at 4 AM. It was freezing fog ... the greenhouse was 41°.
! It was probably just my imagination but the tomato seedlings looked a little purple after the morning sun burnt through the fog ... everything else seemed fine.
I tried restarting with turning the thermostat off and on - fail. Turned power off at the breaker box ... back on ... it started! I think my 2 bathroom heaters would work but, soon, I will need one or both for the hoop houses!
I was up 3 times to check the thermometer last night and out to the greenhouse to confirm at 3:30am. The Weather Service says it isn't freezing but there is frost on the pickup.
And so, my early morning/overnight life will be for the next 6 weeks. I sleep better on warm nights and I knew that it would be warmer after a sunny day, yesterday. I'm Sleepy.
Steve
! It was probably just my imagination but the tomato seedlings looked a little purple after the morning sun burnt through the fog ... everything else seemed fine.
I tried restarting with turning the thermostat off and on - fail. Turned power off at the breaker box ... back on ... it started! I think my 2 bathroom heaters would work but, soon, I will need one or both for the hoop houses!
I was up 3 times to check the thermometer last night and out to the greenhouse to confirm at 3:30am. The Weather Service says it isn't freezing but there is frost on the pickup.
And so, my early morning/overnight life will be for the next 6 weeks. I sleep better on warm nights and I knew that it would be warmer after a sunny day, yesterday. I'm Sleepy.
Steve
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Do you have some sort of low temperature alert, besides your own inner alarm?
It would be nice for you to be able to sleep if you didn't need to get up and out.
It was pretty cold here overnight Monday. Yesterday morning the animal water and the birdbaths were iced over. If the window thermometer is to be believed it was 20 degrees.
It would be nice for you to be able to sleep if you didn't need to get up and out.
It was pretty cold here overnight Monday. Yesterday morning the animal water and the birdbaths were iced over. If the window thermometer is to be believed it was 20 degrees.
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digitS'
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No alarm, @thistlebloom , just 3 remote thermometers.
Three? Yeah, but same as last year. The big, expensive one's sensor cannot by relied on when it's in the greenhouse. Right now, that sensor is only signaling the outdoor temperature through the air and kitchen wall. Maybe it will work again for sending through the plastic film of the hoop house. Haven't tried it yet in '16.
The oldest one must be reading the neighbor's. It's a mystery. The 2 sensors I had for it gave up the ghost years ago. With fresh batteries it shows indoor and outdoor temperatures. Whose outdoors
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Frost on everything right now but the furnace is running. The next few nights look lots warmer and I should only really need to check before sunrise. I'd prefer that many of them come nowhere close to freezing.
Steve
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Three? Yeah, but same as last year. The big, expensive one's sensor cannot by relied on when it's in the greenhouse. Right now, that sensor is only signaling the outdoor temperature through the air and kitchen wall. Maybe it will work again for sending through the plastic film of the hoop house. Haven't tried it yet in '16.
The oldest one must be reading the neighbor's. It's a mystery. The 2 sensors I had for it gave up the ghost years ago. With fresh batteries it shows indoor and outdoor temperatures. Whose outdoors
.Frost on everything right now but the furnace is running. The next few nights look lots warmer and I should only really need to check before sunrise. I'd prefer that many of them come nowhere close to freezing.
Steve
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