Master Gardener Course: Eight Basic Rules of Botany

[MindfulChaos]

My new favorite educator on YouTube! I graduated college a few months ago with a psych degree and yet here I am suddenly passionate about gardening. I type this as my indoor plant with three brown, wilted leaves stares down at me with contempt. P.S. if you have ADHD or any trouble focusing on certain subjects for long periods of time, I recommend watching at 1.5x speed :)

[_noizmusic]

I don't know why I decided to watch this, but I'm learning a lot and this lecturer is great and keeps my interest!

[fuxan]

Here is my take away:
1. Diversity: Plant kingdom is diverse and there are diverse responses to stimuli between plant varieties
2. Leaves: leaves absorb sunlight, produce food and perform transpiration
3. Buds: At the base of every leaf there is a bud
4. Balance: energy balance must be maintained between the roots and stems
5. Growth: there are 4 places of growth: terminal, lateral, root tips and cambium
6. Reproduction: it is top priority
7. Dwarfing: pruning is a way to dwarf
8. Control: bud growth is controlled by hormones/chemicals

[jasonb]

This lecture is so fascinating.
How no one laughs at his jokes I don’t know I had a decent giggle

[buzzybee]

My day off from work and I found this gem. Thank you!!!

[Suspect]

What an amazing class! This is the kind of teaching I have been looking for.

I love how the scientific principles are made concrete through the anecdotes and application to plant puzzles. They really helped me understand the science. Thank you!

[jimmyconnor]

Fantastic lecture! I particularly love the case studies the presenter seeds here and there to get to the root of the issue and really plant the idea. Really helps stem the boredom and leafs you guessing!

[phongphong]

I love this class. Rick is such a confident and competent teacher. His calm and soothing voice is easy to listen to. Thank you so much! Appreciated.

[terry]

Excellent training.  I am now in a Master Gardeners Class in Hagerstown, Maryland and this was a very good class.

[Chris-nipv]

This man might be the Manly P. Hall of botany. Maximum <3 and respect.

[jg]

This was an amazing learning experience for me. I also think it's funny that half the time on the left table that lady had to keep all those plants there on her desk space.
Great vid!

[alanlavich]

A thousand thanks! That was s-o-o-o o good. I now consider myself seriously enlightened.
That lecture was really comprehensive, and i will never look at the garden in quite the same way again...made all the intensive studying of botany I have doing all make good practical sense in one moment. Keep those videos coming.

[houseplantnerd]

Great lecture. Shared with the gardening world. A must watch for all plant people.

[harveymilne]

This has been really helpful. I’ve been trying to get into horticulture and botany but have found it quite difficult to find a starting point. This has definitely set me in the right direction

[teehendricks]

I missed sign up by one day in Maricopa County. I have my own nursery and volunteer with the elderly in the wv to help provide quality service to those with fixed budgets. Thank you for giving me a formal resource so I can continue my education, I hate the way the classes are so limited in this county.

[lr]

Currently doing a horticulture course and the notes are too much to take in... Thanku for a wonderful lecture, learnt way more in this vid than i ever would in particular course!!

[christ]

A very pleasant learning experience and simple introduction to botany and the science of it. Thank you

[chromegamercat]

I'm a senior accounting student who now regrets my major but with no schools anywhere near me offering botany, I'm going to learn some basics and then maybe in the future I can go for a bachelors...

[SamHasPlans]

This is a super beautiful lesson, I'm super happy learning about this, you're a super amazing :D

[mr.automation]

Thank you so much for lecture. This professor deals great laymen terms!!! At least for me.