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We had good germination with Bell Peppers and Tomatoes and gave the plants we could not use to a friend with an allotment, he planted what he could and gave the surplus to other people, they gave him different veg plants and we have been given the tastiest Lettuce in 25 years with more to come.
12th June 2020 Home Stafford UK
13th Red Lettuce and Rhubarb delivered. Mind I have been asked to deliver a crumble with some of that. He likes my crumble.
I have always been fascinated by strangler figs. Strangler fig is the common name for a number of tropical plant species (particularly of the genus Ficus) that share a common "strangling" growth habit. This growth habit is an adaptation to growing in dark forests where the competition for light is intense. Strangler figs suck up the nutrients from their victims, causing them to die eventually. These plants are spending the first part of their life without rooting into the ground. Their seeds, often bird-dispersed, germinate in crevices atop other trees. These seedlings grow their roots downward and envelop the host tree while also growing upward to reach into the sunlight zone above the canopy. An original support tree can sometimes die, as was the case here, so that the strangler fig becomes a tree with a hollow central core, tempting this guy to climb up on the inside.
'Tropisme' is a natural will to go towards something. Germinating plants will reach for the faintest light, moths will fly to the artificial moon of a patio light, roots will almost smell and hear groundwater, woodlice monitor for damp shade... instinctive compulsions.
For man, 'tropismes' became a matter for debate, with the magnetic pull of a bold sign, a sugary or fatty comfort or a charismatic smile being the choppy seas for our cerebral calculations and navigations.
Early man was still pushed and pulled by the seasons and by innate desires, but could decide if and how. Some of the extreme politics of history have formatted options for man or trawled for data of the keys that make man think and act. 'Heavily moustached man' has imagined a tropism of a 'will to power', and whilst keys to the minds of man can and do exist, they are too fickle, ephemeral and delicate to play with, and the jesters and clowns who meddle are often the ones who can look at a mess and find philosophy, look at a cold order and find attractive light.
As a child, I used to put out trays of wet cotton wool and place different seeds and fruit onto the surface to see which blooms of fungi and algae would result. Most of the time these varied and strange species are hidden from view, and over time I got some colourful and unusual results. Some seeds would germinate in the living abstract expressionism and on one occasion the alchemy produced a negative 'tropisme'. The root pushed high towards the light and the leaf pushed down into the cotton wool - a strange sight. As the cotton wool was damp, the plant managed to live, and I took the result to my biology teacher. Here, meddling with nature produced utterly unnatural results, and nature, like man, needs the time and the space to employ the common sense that is within. Man's space is not simple a room with a screen that sees the world, or a cerebral inner thought - rather a living planet, a unify-er that is at a distinct distance from all mankind.
AJ
Wishing everybody a happily blooming 2014!
This is a shot of a germinated bean seed. The cotyledons are open to show the baby plant - the embryo with its leaves, stem and root.
Asian greens germination outside during temperatures in low 20s F under Agribon 19 and frost blanket materials
Extraordinarily beautiful and intoxicatingly poisonous!
Datura stramonium has been used as a mystical sacrament in North America and South Asia. In Hinduism, Lord Shiva was known to smoke Datura. People still provide the small green fruit of Datura during festivals and special days as offerings in Shiva temples. Although lay devotees smoke marijuana as a devotional practice during religious festivals like Shivaratri (the Night of Shiva), they do not smoke Datura because its effects can be unpredictable and sometimes fatal. Aboriginal Americans in North America, such as the Algonquin and Luiseño have used this plant in sacred ceremonies. The genus name is derived from dhatura, an ancient Hindu word for a plant. Stramonium is originally from Greek, strychnos στρύχνος "nightshade" and maniakos μανιακός "mad".
All parts of this plant are poisonous. Effects from ingestion range from flushed skin, headaches, hallucinations, convulsions and even coma. Datura stramonium, known by the common names jimson weed, devil's trumpet, devil's weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkweed, locoweed, datura, pricklyburr, devil's cucumber, hell's bells, moonflower and, in South Africa, malpitte and mad seeds, is a common weed in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family. Parts of the plant, especially the seeds and leaves, are sometimes used as a hallucinogen. Due to the elevated risk of overdose in uninformed users, many hospitalizations and some deaths are reported from this use.
It is an erect annual herb forming a bush up to 3–5 ft tall. The leaves are soft, irregularly undulate, and toothed. The fragrant flowers are trumpet-shaped, white to creamy or violet, and 2.5 to 3.5 in. long. The egg-shaped seed capsule is walnut-sized and either covered with spines or bald. At maturity it splits into four chambers, each with dozens of small black seeds. The seed is carried by birds and spread in their droppings. It can lie dormant underground for years and germinate when the soil is disturbed. People who discover it growing in their gardens and are worried about its toxicity have been advised to dig it up.
In the United States the plant is called Jimson Weed, or more rarely Jamestown Weed, taking this name from Jamestown, Virginia where British soldiers were drugged with it while attempting to suppress Bacon's Rebellion. They spent 11 days generally appearing to have gone insane.
Datura metel
Biscayne Park FL
Nelumbo nucifera, also known as Indian lotus,sacred lotus, bean of India, or simply lotus, is one of two species of aquatic plant in thefamily Nelumbonaceae. The Linnaean binomial Nelumbo nucifera (Gaertn.) is the currently recognized name for this species, which has been classified under the former names, Nelumbium speciosum (Willd.) andNymphaea nelumbo, among others. (These names are obsolete synonyms and should be avoided in current works.) This plant is an aquatic perennial. Under favorable circumstances its seeds may remain viable for many years, with the oldest recorded lotus germination being from that of seeds 1,300 years old recovered from a dry lakebed in northeastern China.[1]
Native to Tropical Asia and Queensland,Australia,[2][3] it is commonly cultivated inwater gardens. It is also the national flower ofIndia and Vietnam.
A stray germination beneath one of our feeders has produced this solitary ear of Barley, thanks to the messy feeding habits of the local gang of House Sparrows
January 2025, Lucky 400 SHD bulk roll, stand developed. Ricoh 35 ZF. A little avocado growing on our window sill.
A few neighbors are still working their fields. . . the winter wheat which germinated in the warm autumn will lie dormant until spring. . . .
How do I know
if there are rocks in your field,
plow it and find out.
If the plow strikes something
harder than earth, the point
shatters at a sudden blow,
and the tractor jerks sidewise
and dumps you off the seat—
because the spring hitch
isn’t set to trip quickly enough
and it never is—probably
you hit a rock. That means
the glacier emptied its pocket
in your field as well as mine,
but the connection with a thing
is the only truth that I know of,
so plow it.
--James Hearst (my first poetry teacher, a friend of Frost and Sandburg who was a farmer-poet in Cedar Falls, Iowa, hearstarchive.uni.edu/)
This plant would have germinated from seed after a fire, when there was adequate heat and moisture. At this site now, the forest understorey is shaded by rainforest plants. Today, eucalyptus and their allies would not survive as seedlings in this shady situation.
This individual is 28 metres tall. Taller than the average height. Which is around 15 to 25 metres. I've measured the same species at 45 metres tall in the upper Lane Cove river valley. Sometimes mature examples of this species may grow to a full height of only 5 metres.
Gerard made 3 of these teddies & they looked great in August. Destined as compost now but sitting in the rain the barley seed had started to sprout. I think they have a certain charm. If he leaves them there for next few weeks I will def try to take some more pictures of how they change with time.
It took these chives nearly six weeks to germinate, which has to be some sort of record, but now they've arrived, they're making up for lost time rather quickly!
I thought they'd make a nice addition to my Abstract Nature series for this month! :)
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In a manner of speaking this is true. Sunflower seed borne to this location and dropped. Subsequently germinated and grew into beautiful plant, and flower.
This is a desiccated branch of an otherwise healthy Bishop Pine, it is probably infected by pine pitch fungus which is prevalent in the area at the moment. I took this shot on the side of Mount Vision. In 1995, the entire area was decimated by a massive fire, which was a blessing for the Bishop Pine, which can only germinate through wildfires. As you can see their cones are sealed, they remain sealed up for decades if necessary, and then wildfires melt the resin and the heat updraft lifts the seeds up and distributes them. The fire not only unlocking the seeds and distributing them, but also clearing the area of competing mature growth trees. In this particular area Bishop Pines were sparse before the fire, and now they dominate the regrowth, reactivated from the dormant seeds.
This pine tree is one of California's coastal natives, with a very restricted distribution.
Today is day 151 of Project 365 (Monday).
This small valley had quite a few wildflowers growing 1/2 year out of season, almost exactly opposite their normal peak. The triggering event was apparently heavy rain in August, about 3 months earlier..
We'll be back here in April 2022, a more "normal" time for wildflowers to potentially bloom, if the rain deficit through January and into February didn't prevent them from germinating this season.
Germinating sycamore seed, Acer pseodoplatanus. 16 March 2023. Ealing, London, England, UK.
When Mother Nature says, “Wake up, the time is now.”
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Our Daily Challenge 6-12 February : Patience
Every year I grow quite a few things from seed, and this can require quite a bit of patience!
This is a Ricinus seedling, and in a few weeks will become a striking exotic looking plant.
Every part of which is poisonous!
Some of you may remember the Bulgarian envoy killed by a poisoned umbrella tip whilst waiting for a bust on London Bridge. This was the culprit.