Chili crisp. Easy, cheap (homemade to make it as cheap as it gets), delicious

Don’t bother. I tried it. 1 star.

There are plants that don’t photosynthesize, though most do. Check out ghost pipes if you want to see one of the exceptions. They’re pretty cool

Tell me you don’t communicate science often without saying it. Know the audience is rule 1.

But ok, ‘tell’ is useful anthropormophism to get an idea across. Sensing though? In what way is reacting to a stimuli not sensing? It is the word scientific papers use. What would you say instead?

A little, the stretching house plant demonstrates how plants can sense the direction light is coming from. They can also sense qualities of light. They can tell if light is filtered through other leaves, for instance. I would speculate that refected light also has a unique color (wavelength) distribution that a plant could sense and respond to

That’s not a demon. That’s an angel.

It isn’t common, and explode is an exaggeration for what I have seen - just cracked bark (though the crack was probably abrupt and loud). Montana gets some every now and again, so I am guessing at least some parts of Alberta do too. Nobody has made a big deal about it in the past outside of folks interested in trees. This is some weird media hype.

This isn’t the same plant as the op. Op is poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum).

Or PFD

Having worked growing native plants for restoration efforts, I can say that this is 100% true. Our focus was on getting plants that will survive without any extra help after being put in the ground, so no fertilizer and limited water. A scraggly leaved plant with good roots would make it where something with lots of soft new growth would get eaten.

For others, in my accent drawer rhymes with door and or. All spelled differently to get the same sound. None of the three are spelled phonetically by the ‘rules’ of English. They should be drore, dore, and ore.

I updated with some of the details on the original post in case you’re curious, but reinstalling the app was the winning ticket. Thanks for the willingness to help

Yep it was the app. A reinstall fixed it. Thanks for the help.

Clearing cache didn’t work, but total reinstall did. Thanks for a point in the right direction.

At that point you will have smoked 4% of 100 joints. Hey, math is easy.

Yeah, it usually used to indicate unwanted flowering, but in lettuces (and to a lesser extent, basil) it indicates the beginning of the flowering attempt by the plant. Most people will cull their lettuce after it bolts (stem starts to elongate into an inflorescence), but way before there are any open flowers or even buds.

Broccoli is weird though. We want it to bolt, but not really flower. That’s an odd thing for most plants.

Not exactly. It is bolting when it starts sending up a flowering stem, the very beginning of flowering. Every broccoli I’ve ever eaten has bolted, but not many of them have bolted and flowered.

I think the best bet would be following recipes. That means finding recipes that minimize ‘to taste’ instructions. A lot can be done by look and texture, so you can be decent enough for anyone who’s not a snob. Also, err on the side of too little salt and put some on the table.

You can look at wildlife/pollinator gardening. There are different focuses like rewilding or even restoration. There are also a lot of companies willing to sell incredibly invasive plants while calling them nice things, so buy from a reputable source if you do buy plants or seeds.

Also, donate your time to review papers, an absolutely critical part of “peer reviewed journals”, for the people charging you both.