[DallasBiff]

I know, but its a slow political day.

True or false? Have fun, flame away

[Jamestown1630]

Cleve Backster had some thoughts on this...

[DIRTYSECRET]

My plant pretty much died on me. I gave into a mystic woman and it came back to life. She did nothing but left it hanging on a hook. Perhaps I drowned it with too much water but I could tell it didn’t like me-can’t blame it.

[escapefromboston]

Just be worried if the plants talk back

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember this nonsense back in the 1960s. The claim was made by Vaughn Meader, a comemidan who gave us the spoofs of JFK the 1962 comedy record “The First Family”, and was said to have started the “CAROLINE, CLOTHE YOUR HORSE!” when JFK was in the White House. Hard to believe it but 35 thousand people signed a petition for Caroline to “CLOTHE YOUR HORSE!”

Only the old timers who remember those years will know what I am talking about.

[dayglored]

Gardening *ping*

[Tell It Right]

Take two houseplants and put them to the test.
Set 'em both in front of speakers and let the music do the rest.
The first one you play Mozart or something lovely like that.
The second one you play Petra or Megadeth.

Audio Adrenaline's song Houseplant Song was a take on preachers a decade prior slamming rock n roll using a paper written by Dorothy Retallack that rock n roll harms plants. LOL In 1986 my youth pastor planned to take us to the Mylon Lefevre and Broken Heart concert, the head pastor got wind of it and stopped it. The youth pastor told those of us old enough to drive to take the others, which we did. LOL That Sunday the head pastor had a sermon based on Retallack's paper about how wrong loud Christian music was.

The funny thing was that for the closing hymn, the music director had us sing from the hymn book a song recorded by Elvis called Without Him ... written by Mylon Lefevre. LOL

To this day a lot of us are some of the most dedicated Bible readers and church volunteers in different churches. Every now and then we talk about that concert 4 decades ago being one of the main things encouraging us.

[fso301]

Isn’t this something the hippies did in their communal garden plots?

[Da Coyote]

Don’t know about plants, but we can confirm that talking to leftists totally doesn’t work.

[fruser1]

Plants feed off carbon dioxide. Hence, it’s not the sound of your wonderful voice, but your exhale that helps them.

Nevertheless, it appears this kind of attribution to plants is as old as the hills and part of pagan beliefs. It seems to be a fundamental of anthropology and theorized to be how people attempt to figure out and survive in the world around them when there is no benefit of education - as in paleolithic times.

Lots on this subject in the Golden Bough by Frazer. Will help you understand the lunacy of eco freaks.