Daft_ishHow likely do you think it is that there may have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?
Well just in case this ends up being a solution to some mystery I’ve not come across, here’s a genuine (albeit seemingly pointless) finding from a research project I did a while back:
When saltwater is poured into the soil around the roots of a tomato plant, the plant’s internal electrochemical response oscillates with a 0.1hz frequency.
I’m not sure what mystery that will solve but now nobody can accuse me of not reporting/recording it!
Thats so much cooler than my last work, which can be summed up as “when someone said you can make [substance] via [cheap process] instead of [expensive process] they were fucking lying”.
Unspoken second title: “and all you reviewers fucking suck!”
Thank you. I love you.
So this is related to hydration in the plants. I read this paper about tomato plants being stressed and emitting ultrasonic chirps
Ooh, interesting. That’s a different angle from what we were working on but a similar idea of being able to understand what stresses plants are under.
Here’s an article talking about the project I contributed to: www.engineering.com/story/xzezv
So glad I can’t hear my poor potplants.
They said “Whaaat?”
PromethielI’m hearing that you solved how to get the robot bee fencing problem solved already?
SomeGuy69We know by now that plants talk with each other. You could measure the effect of this on the plant and surrounding plants. Check if the effect is beneficial, like better water retention, growth or taste etc. If any of this is true, install a speaker on your tomatoes field and play some 0.1hz jazz