Plants Are Smarter Than You Realize

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Plants can do some amazing things.
But how do they respond to their environment with no brain?
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Learn more/references:

Galil, J. "An ancient technique for ripening sycomore fruit in east-mediterranean countries." Economic Botany 22.2 (1968): 178-190.

Gerbode, Sharon J., et al. "How the cucumber tendril coils and overwinds."Science 337.6098 (2012): 1087-1091.

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Guy: man these flowers sure do smell nice
Flowers: this homo sapien sure does smell nice

kirtil
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Two things about them being "deaf": study after study has shown that plants grow better with sound. However it doesn't matter what sound. In fact screamo works best just because of how noisy it is. Second: what about the telegraph plant?? It's literally been nicknamed the "dancing plant" because of the fact that its leaves move around when there is sound.

I think plants can detect vibration, and that impacts its growth, and in the case of the telegraph plant, causes movement.

mksabourinable
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I don't even understand how anything works anymore. Nature is awesome!

breannabeck
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Soon, plants will make a video called:”can humans think?”🌿

nnnkmk
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beethoven was deaf too. Didnt stop him from loving music.

nathanmanning
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My hippy mate once said to me we all look at trees like their big solid things that sit in the ground and don't move, but from their point of view trees live for hundreds of years so to them their roots are wiggling around at normal speed and we zoom past at ridiculous speeds and die within a few minutes like bacteria

bigbrendo
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a study actually shows plants do react to sound as long as its loud. There was an increase of growth in a pea plant when loud sound was being played vs ones with no sound.

stealthassasinday
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I never heard about the classical music trick, but I did hear if you talk to a plant it helps it grow. That may be because you are breathing carbon dioxide out on it.

evangelion
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4:48 In my country we call those makahiya plants, meaning "shy"

csgoplayer
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Many years ago there was a Mythbusters episode in which they experimented with the effects of sound/music on plants. Their results showed that plants exposed to music or any type of sound grew better than the group of plants without any exposurer to music/sound. Their results also showed that the plants didn't care if it was heavy metal or someone screaming or classical music. Perhaps plants sense vibrations of sound and not the sound itself.

americanhindi
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Title: Do plants think?
Video: No!
The end

ernodios
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I for one welcome our knew plant overloards

IulianusTabernarius
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1. Plant have gravity sensing cells that orient the roots & shoots even in darkness
2. Plat shoot tips have photo-sensitive cells that guide them to light
3. Plan leaves can sense the wavelength of light, and detect seasons by measuring the length of days & nights
4. Ethylene is used to ripen fruits, coordinated ripening attracts more animals to disperse seeds
5. Plants signal to each other when harmed using volatile chemicals
6. Plants have thermal, pain, and pressure receptors

IndrajitRajtilak
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For anyone wondering about what plant was the one with the closing leaves... it's called a mimosa tree and mostly grows in warmer places. It even blooms beautiful pink flowers. 🌺

addysonshelton
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Person: **Smells flowers** Ah... Fresh O2 and some nice blooming aroma **Waters the plant**
Flower: **Smells person** Ah.... Fresh CO2 and some nice H2O

volksmann
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wow how cool is that crazy theif plant! also should have included those fly trap pants they're fun to play with :)

upandatom
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About that Mozart thing, I figure the plants would feel the vibrations in the air and respond to those. Now whether that reaction is significant or positive is what I'd be interested in

FarronMoon
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Fascinating. A few years ago I remember being alone in the living room when the small-to-medium potted plant with spiky leaves we had suddenly started trembling. As I watched, all of its body began violently shaking, and although this wasn't strong enough to move its heavy pot, it was enough to create a loud rattling noise for a short while. This freaked me out so much I jumped straight up and ran out of the room. For ages after I was convinced it had been possessed or something. To this day I have no idea what happened and I haven't experienced it with another plant since.

Has anyone had something similar?

YetAnotherPianoWhore
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Plants actually aren't deaf (though they certainly don't hear the way we do). Researchers have done experiments where they played a recording of caterpillars eating plants and plants exposed to the sounds of predators released chemical defenses as well as distress signals.

Radhaun
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5:56 we always called it sleepy grass in the playground.

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