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Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant The mystery of the mimic plant (Vox) Mimicry in Plants (Wiki)
minus-squareNegativeLookBehind@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 years agoSo if you have plants in your bathroom, they’re watching you poop. Neat!
minus-squareJay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 years agoThat kind of explains why I can’t keep plants alive… I’m traumatizing them so bad they want death.
minus-squarelol3droflxp@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 years agoFor 90% of people it’s watering issues. Mostly overwatering.
minus-squareJay@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoYa, usually I either overwater or forget about it entirely for extended periods of time. That’s why I have mainly plastic plants now. Much less fussy.
minus-squarefossilesque@mander.xyzOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years ago5 words: Beer bottle drip feeder attachments.
minus-squarelol3droflxp@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoDrip feeders can in fact be excellent. Unless you’re already the kind of person who will forget about those as well.
minus-squareblackbrook@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoBut wouldn’t they be, like, “yum, fertilizer!”?
minus-squareblackbrook@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 years agoPlants: “Eat more phosphorus and potassium!”
minus-squareEufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoNot if they have to see that guy with his pants off!
minus-squareNarrrz@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoplants are farming us all for food. playing the long game.
minus-squareOmega_Haxors@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·edit-22 years agoThey smell the food, they can see the food being made, but by the cruel hand of fate, they just can’t get the food.
So if you have plants in your bathroom, they’re watching you poop. Neat!
That kind of explains why I can’t keep plants alive… I’m traumatizing them so bad they want death.
For 90% of people it’s watering issues. Mostly overwatering.
Ya, usually I either overwater or forget about it entirely for extended periods of time.
That’s why I have mainly plastic plants now. Much less fussy.
5 words: Beer bottle drip feeder attachments.
Drip feeders can in fact be excellent. Unless you’re already the kind of person who will forget about those as well.
But wouldn’t they be, like, “yum, fertilizer!”?
Probably not with my diet.
Plants: “Eat more phosphorus and potassium!”
Not if they have to see that guy with his pants off!
plants are farming us all for food. playing the long game.
They smell the food, they can see the food being made, but by the cruel hand of fate, they just can’t get the food.