The point I want to make is that, in caring for plants of any kind, anywhere, we shouldn’t look for one-size-fits-all advice. Instead, seek answers based on how plants actually work. The question of ‘how often should I?’ shows a very different approach. It says, let’s keep this simple, give me a schedule and I’ll follow it. Often it also means, I can’t be bothered to know more than that; if it can’t be that simple, I don’t want the plant. (Incidentally, this is why I say just water your plants when they’re clearly getting dry, because at least that’s relatively simple.) https://dirtwise.substack.com/p/why-is-houseplant-advice-so-bad
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Why is Houseplant Advice So Bad?
In a realm with no experts, everyone's an expert
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Study finds California condors can have "virgin births"
A new study says endangered California condors can have “’virgin births.” Researchers with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance say genetic testing confirmed that two male chicks hatched from unfertilized eggs in 2001 and 2009 were related to their mothers.
good points about the complexity of environmentally conscious decisions https://twitter.com/Botanygeek/status/1455074854017933316?s=20
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Wrapping broccoli in a material that slows down its respiratory rate doubles it shelf life. Going for the unwrapped version not only potentially doubles food waste (probably the greatest environmental threat to humanity), it can cause a nutrient decline of…
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Planting new forests with high functional diversity helps improve productivity | Phys•org
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Planting new forests with high functional diversity helps improve productivity
As forests age, differences in species functional traits become more important and reliable in predicting forest productivity, according to an international study led by Prof. Ma Keping at the Institute ...
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Literally every year this website posts an article about that
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And the one I posted earlier is from today
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And that's just for phys.org.
There's more information about this available and it's not as if it was an issue that wasn't discussed often in the scientific community and outside of it as well.
There's more information about this available and it's not as if it was an issue that wasn't discussed often in the scientific community and outside of it as well.
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How many times will environmental scientists have to repeat that monocultures and poor biodiversity are harmful to our ecosystems until governments do something about it