Plants and vegetation

It has been proven that plants can communicate, also that they can show different emotions, i.e. fear. After spending quite a bit of time contemplating this, I started to think about several things. So I will pose these questions to all of you and see what your conclusions may be.


When you mow the lawn, does your grass see it as regular maintenance like a hair cut? Or does your grass tremble in fear each time there is the sound of the lawn mower?

When you trim a hedge, does that hedge feel joy at the fact that you are keeping it in shape? Or does it dread everytime you come near it?

Just got done mowing the lawn, and I have to tell you, within a few days of mowing the grass has tons of new bright green growth, so I happen to think it likes getting a haircut.

I saw that Mythbusters tried to prove it, but I was pretty sure it was unproven.
Though, I may be wrong and there is actually a high possibility I am.

Mythbusters cannot disprove scientific experiments that took years to complete. I like that show, but in the time they have they have disproved things that are actually true and proved things that are false. So I wouldn't take their word as the end all beat all.

I also know what episode you are talking about, when they played the different types of music in controlled groups of plants in separate greenhouses.

However with time lapsed photography they have shown how trees act when another tree close to them is getting cut down. First the trees tremble, then they lean in towards the tree that is being cut down, and right before it falls they lean back.

Also there was a study done about how plants communicate and what they might communicate, the whole movie "the Happening" was based on that study.

Just because the show is only an hour doesn't mean it only takes an hour for their experiment.

No, they take a week to do their experiments.


Here is an article about a study done with sagebrush.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0619171244.htm

Actually a lot of there experiments take months

PiAlpha is gonna come in here flailing about if he finds anyone dissing Mythbusters!

I will agree with abracax on this one though...I've seen a lot of their shows where the premise of their experiment was already faulty. They will say "Ok, how would we go about creating Greek Fire?" and they'll discuss it and say "Well, they might have used pitch, but we don't have any pitch. What we DO have is some road tar, so let's try that!" When it doesn't work out, they say "Myth Busted!" and I can only think that had they done the experiment the way they KNEW they should have, it might have worked.

The guys are good, but they are SPECIAL EFFECTS spe******ts. Not scientists publishing years-long double-blind studies in peer-reviewed journals of prestige. As entertaining as the show is, I cannot hold them up as proof or disproof of anything.

While I agree (Pialpha, don't kill me) with you both on the fact that you must take everything they say on a thread (Seriously, don't kill me...) I also would like to say that they have been right a lot of times as well. So while sometimes they are wrong, they are also sometimes right. I think the easiest way to say what I'm trying say is that just because you find something on the internet, or saw some photos means nothing. With all our new advanced technology, seeing really isn't believing anymore.

I disagree.

Let's assume plants can feel.

I don't know any creature that likes to generally have LIVING parts of itself cut off.

Egro.

Grass cutting is grotesque totalitarian cruelty by the lawn care oligarchy in order to appease the status quo to enforce uniformity among the masses!!

HEIL LAWN HITLER!

That was kinda weird but um.. Okay..