02 July 2010

Plants (but no Zombies - they are alive)

Golly geepers, I'm learning stuff about plants. This is amazing. My pepper wilts in the afternoon, and I just learned this is because it can't draw enough water from the soil to keep up with what's evaporating from its leaves. If it recovers by late afternoon, it's fine, but if it doesn't that means it needs watering. My dude is recovering already (the sun's gone in). This is so cool. I never imagined plants were so reactive.

I just wrote the title of this post and it made me wonder what an undead plant would be like. I'll bet you could write a weird sort b-movie about it.

2 comments:

  1. That is amazing. You really must be keeping a close eye on that pepper. Wow i'll have to sit down now next to my peppers and see if they do that too. Cool. :D

    So your pepper is doing well then?

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  2. well it's right beside my desk and every time i look out the window i see it. yea - it seems to be doing well. one of the leaves likes to wilt in the afternoon, but otherwise it's doing well.

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