I think something about the trauma makes them focus. There are experiments where they determined plants were "scared" of certain people because they'd ripped out their compatriots by the roots. These traumatized plants performed better than a control. If I have a plant that's not producing, I threaten it. "You better give me a flower or I'll replace you!" That works, but so does talking sweet to them.
My grandma would go out to her apple cherry orchird on the coldest day in winter and bend and break branches. She’d wound the trees and slice up the bark with a machete in a certain pattern. Those trees would produce year after year. They were planted in the early 20s.
***I think something about the trauma makes them focus. There are experiments where they determined plants were “scared” of certain people because they’d ripped out their compatriots by the roots.
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It must be why the dandelions in my yard go nuts...the more I weed them, the more they pop up.
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