jippsy
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Post by jippsy on May 1, 2009 16:26:57 GMT -5
I have a large planter where I planted nasturtium & fennel seeds earlier in the year. They're now coming up, along with other weeds including some nettles. While examining them today, I caught an odd movement out of the corner of my eye. One of the nettle seedlings was moving!!! Not as moving-in-the-wind, but the whole little plant was moving from side to side & round about! It's about an inch & a half tall. I squatted down & observed it. It continued with this strange movement for about a minute or so, then stopped. I didn't see it move again, although I kept going over to look. Is this the plant 'growing'? I had watered the planter about half an hour earlier, and the sun was on it. It reminded me of slo-mo videos of plant growth, the kind you see on the TV! But I never thought you could see this with the naked eye in a short time span.
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Post by Debbie on May 1, 2009 16:56:46 GMT -5
WOW I have never seen anything like that.
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Post by phatcats on May 1, 2009 21:26:23 GMT -5
Cool! ;D Maybe it was a big worm crawling around under the dirt that made it move?
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jippsy
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Post by jippsy on May 3, 2009 7:21:35 GMT -5
Maybe it was a big worm crawling around under the dirt that made it move? I don't think so; that had occurred to me too. But this is a planter filled with special earth, and as far as I'm aware, there are no worms in it at all. Ants perhaps! Could ants make this happen? None of the seedlings round about (and there were lots!) were moving...I watched them all carefully. My google research finds that plants do grow in spurts, rather than just growing slowly all the time.
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Post by basha on May 7, 2009 17:01:03 GMT -5
your google search theory sounds logical to me!! can you imagine the odds of a person actually seeing it? how cool is that!!! you made botanical history!!! lol
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Post by pebbles on May 7, 2009 20:18:43 GMT -5
Call a garden shop and see if anyone knows.
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