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Shocking news about plant communication

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Mon Jul 13, 2020 12:27 pm

Detection of electrical signaling between tomato plants raises interesting questions

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-electrical-tomato.html

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Mon Jul 13, 2020 3:13 pm

Interesting! I've known for years that trees communicate and remember seeing experiments about beans' musical preferences (they love classical!) I bet if we could just listen that our lawns & gardens are probably pretty chatty!!
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Mon Jul 13, 2020 7:26 pm

That explains a lot... :lol:
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Tue Jul 14, 2020 10:00 pm

I wonder if tomatoes talk to trees, and the trees talk to future generations of tomatoes, and so on so that they have a lot of information about previous tomatoes you've grown.
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