Q: I grow batches of #sequoia. About one quarter of seedlings form little water drops on the tips of the first leaves / cotyledons. These stay in place for about two weeks. The rest of the seedlings do not show any of this.
I assume this is some type of guttation. Any I'm loosely theorizing it has to do with how the cotyledons were split, maybe damaged. But frankly, I don't know :-)
A casual observation, #mastodon for me has settled into something that resembles what "good" Twitter used to look like. I can only thank the devs and the community at large.
I think there is a bit more space for the academic component to grow, but much of that has moved to LinkedIn (keeping business and fun separated). Fair enough for me.
Larger and larger groups of what are essentially #poachers encroaching on protected land have invaded the forest and are cutting down trees and pulling up plants at a rapid rate. Whole patches of the tree-dense area are now bare.
Field work is essential to the career of many #biologists; however, when working in the field while #black (FWB), everyday tasks conducted while in the field can be life-threatening..."
My kid just asked me if backbones give you eyelids. I was as confused as you would expect, but he explained:
While some vertebrates do not have eyelids, he couldn’t think of any invertebrates that do have them, so his conclusion was that having eyelids requires a backbone.
Now I’m definitely no #biology expert (this kid probably knows more than I do) but I do know that eyes evolved independently in different animals. Now, #biologists, I am curious. Do any #invertebrates have eyelids?
A lot of what we do here at Plant Humboldt has nothing to do with cannabis.
This is our lined, rainwater collection, irrigation pond. It's about 500 ft/sq and 16' at the deepest. Floating in the middle is a salvaged standup paddleboard converted into a floating island.
I set it up last August as an experiment. While the plants are growing (see photos from last year's planting time), they aren't thriving. I need to figure out what's going on.
Once I get it dialed in, the plan is to bolt five or six paddleboards together to make a large habitat island that will also support enough root mass below it that it will reduce the nutrient load in the water. Ideally this will reduce the planktonic algae that gives the water its pea soup color.
In the next post, I'll give a little info on why I think the plants aren't doing so well and ask for advice. Any aquatic #biologists who understand #pond chemistry out there?
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