Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

So this is what happens barely 48 hrs after chucking a leftover base into the GB.... This thing isn't going to come upstairs and start gnawing on my ankles in the middle of the night is it?

Electric fence to be on the safe side, cheers

it's alive...!

I hope you have a gun under your pillow....


Classic AP.... growing stuff.

Rockmelon scares me. Actually, any running/climbing type plant scares me. I planted a rockmelon in my wicking bed and its sent out about 5 runners, each of these runners are all heading towards the nearest stake or thing to climb up. How do they know where to go? Ive even moved some in a different direction only to come back the next day to see them turning back towards that 'thing' they want to climb or grab on to.

So weird.

And now you are beginning to understand why Vegans are so effed up - they think killing animals clearly put here to help us live is wrong but happily kill and eat the voiceless superior organisms that are plants.

Google 'rupert sheldrake plants scream'

Maybe it is projecting shade onto some of the plant at different times of the day?





Apparently plants can communicate through pheromones and such, will warn other plants of disease and pests. Dr. Karl says that plants on the other side of an orchard can get these signals and prepare itself for being attacked.

Rupert Sheldrake offers proof that plants can detect even the intent to harm them, and more strangely, detect intent to harm other species with which the plants have been only loosely associated. i.e. spent time in the same room.

Yea, im a little sceptical about the "intent" thing, but ive seen the mythbusters episode.

Vegetables aren't food. Vegetables are what food eats....

"If God hadn't intended us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat."

Yeah, I don't have too many friends who admit they're vegetarians around me anymore...

Try cutting the top off a banana plant ,go and have a coffee and see how much it grew while you were away,you might be surprised.

*grins* I LURVE Vegetarians - they taste GREAT with gravy!!!

And meat wouldnt taste so good

http://www.ted.com/talks/stefano_mancuso_the_roots_of_plant_intelligence.html

I didn't crawl to the top of the food chain... just to eat a lettuce salad everyday...

And hey... I luv Vegans.... more meat and eggs for me to eat...