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

My bad

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’m in if you want a (mostly) noob. Could probably talk my partner into joining.

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.

Your computer is displaying the symbols wrong. The W in your screenshot is a whole note. The dotted capital Is are eighth notes. No suggestions except different browser or app.

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.

For anyone wondering DIMBY is Daycares in my back yard

Rock juice. I didn’t make that up

Yes, kind of, specific proteins (eg casein) in the milk react with rennet (or acid) and coagulate. That leaves other proteins (eg lactoglobulin) in a water solution that we call whey. It isn’t that the rennet or acid is used up, it is that the proteins that will coagulate under those conditions have all coagulated and separated from the whey.