Touch your plants to increase calcium

[ninjadip]

Plants can distinguish when touch starts and stops

Even without nerves, plants can sense when something touches them and when it lets go, a Washington State University-led study has found.

phys.org

This article is wild!!! Solve calcium deficiency by touch? Jk , but still very interesting

Within 30 seconds of the applied touch to a cell, the researchers saw slow waves of calcium ions, called cytosolic calcium, travelling from that cell through the adjacent plant cells, lasting about three to five minutes. Removal of the touch showed an almost instant set of more rapid waves that dissipated within a minute.

@Moe.Red I know you will like this article. Just hope it doesn't make you want to start another experiment, groped vs nonmolested plants

 

[MDK]

Imagine the buds if you gave it a little tuggie

 

[steamroller]

I touch my plants~!

Imagine the buds if you gave it a little tuggie

When I grew outdoors we used to yank the whole plant to break some of the smaller roots before harvest.
Maybe if we had named it it would have caught on?

 

[TomH]

Ok, who wants to admit what they have to do to get those 20’ tall tree like plants? LOL

As long as it doesn’t end with a cigarette, alls well!

 

[Rootsruler]

Imagine the buds if you gave it a little tuggie

Will a reach around suffice?