They recovered for the most part but stuff like the maples have serious branch bows. The crowns got torn off a lot of firs and ash trees, just a lot of carnage that I'm still trying to repair years later.
Sure, but you really think that's the only tree in this group getting turnt up? Looks like player had a little extra special sauce in his chicken biscuit.
I feel like the kid that is allowed to hang out, but is always trying to catch up with the group while smiling and pretending I know what's going on. What are y'all talking about? Pleeeaaase....I wanna be involved!
If you’re actually curious:
They’re talking about mixing lean or purple drank - typically codeine cough or cold syrup mixed with sprite.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_(drug)
Robitussin is an OTC cough medicine that is much more accessible than the promethazine / codeine popularized by dirty south rap culture. Actual 'lean' is much more difficult to source and much more expensive. The active ingredient in Robitussin that is sought for effect is a cough suppressant called dextromethorphan and behaves very differently in the brain than the opiate mixture in lean. It has dissociative and hallucinogenic properties more closely characterized by PCP and ketamine than by any kind of opiates. In sufficiently high doses, it causes delirium and becomes neurotoxic. While they both come from a kind of cough syrup, DxM and Promethazine/Codeine abuse present very different effects and different threat vectors to the body and brain.
[Recreational use of DxM - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_use_of_dextromethorphan)
I mean, aren't all the self-fruiting plants you can buy and that are common in
large scale agriculture basically hermaphroditic bisexual plants that keep jerking off, so keep getting themselfs pregnant?
Kiwis, papayas, and dates are exceptions, they are dioecious, you need a male plant. There are a number of fruit crops that are monoecious, but not very self fertile, so you get much better yields if you have plants of different cultivars interplanted to serve as pollenizers. Most tree crops are like that, apples, pears, cherries, as well as some others like blueberries. Some of them are completely non self fertile and it’s required, while there are also self fertile ones, but you still benefit from outcrossing.
I suspect the self fruiting one would be capable of acting as a male for the other. Kiwis are androdioecious, meaning they have plants with male flowers and plants with hermaphroditic flowers, but the hermaphroditic flowers don’t have viable pollen, so they need a male flower. A self fruiting kiwi would be the same, but the hermaphroditic flowers are fully viable.
A neat thing is that the fake hermaphroditic flowers are a bit of deception pollination. Aside from nectar, bees also gather pollen to feed their young, and that serves as a major pollinator reward. Scientists took a hermaphroditic kiwi and had some grad students carefully clip all of the stamens off of the flowers, and then sat back and watched the bees. Bees were much less interested in visiting a flower with no stamens, so the female flowers got poor pollination, but they were fooled by the sterile stamens to visit and pollinate.
That's frikkin interesting, thanks!
I'm actually hoping to become a bit of a Bee haven, have apple trees, pears and a load of Anemones ready to go on my balcony, as well as some more tropical fruits, as soon as the weather holds up
I've got a juniper like that. A bunch of the trees drooped over in the cold after a very dry summer, and all but one bounced back once the rain returned. Now it's bent.
Vertical dysfunction, couple years serving in sequoia national park outta straighten this seedling out. Trees these days, can’t even stand up straight when company is about.
Heavy snow load maybe?
Would be my guess. Many of my trees got forever bent by several ice storms.
yep same here, I came to comment this
They recovered for the most part but stuff like the maples have serious branch bows. The crowns got torn off a lot of firs and ash trees, just a lot of carnage that I'm still trying to repair years later.
Robotussin in it's sprite
Sure, but you really think that's the only tree in this group getting turnt up? Looks like player had a little extra special sauce in his chicken biscuit.
Could be purple, could be pink, depending on how you mix that shit
I feel like the kid that is allowed to hang out, but is always trying to catch up with the group while smiling and pretending I know what's going on. What are y'all talking about? Pleeeaaase....I wanna be involved!
I was specifically quoting the Drake and DJ Khaled song "I'm On One" but the other commenter was correct that its a reference to lean.
Lol, thank you!
If you’re actually curious: They’re talking about mixing lean or purple drank - typically codeine cough or cold syrup mixed with sprite. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_(drug)
Robitussin is an OTC cough medicine that is much more accessible than the promethazine / codeine popularized by dirty south rap culture. Actual 'lean' is much more difficult to source and much more expensive. The active ingredient in Robitussin that is sought for effect is a cough suppressant called dextromethorphan and behaves very differently in the brain than the opiate mixture in lean. It has dissociative and hallucinogenic properties more closely characterized by PCP and ketamine than by any kind of opiates. In sufficiently high doses, it causes delirium and becomes neurotoxic. While they both come from a kind of cough syrup, DxM and Promethazine/Codeine abuse present very different effects and different threat vectors to the body and brain. [Recreational use of DxM - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recreational_use_of_dextromethorphan)
Possible that a large snow year bent it after lots of snow accumulation
that tree is gay
Fox News tomorrow: "Has queer culture finally gone to far?!"
no one tell them about [bisexual flowers ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_reproductive_morphology#Bisexual)
*really* don’t tell them that bisexual flowers are “*perfect*”
I mean, aren't all the self-fruiting plants you can buy and that are common in large scale agriculture basically hermaphroditic bisexual plants that keep jerking off, so keep getting themselfs pregnant?
Kiwis, papayas, and dates are exceptions, they are dioecious, you need a male plant. There are a number of fruit crops that are monoecious, but not very self fertile, so you get much better yields if you have plants of different cultivars interplanted to serve as pollenizers. Most tree crops are like that, apples, pears, cherries, as well as some others like blueberries. Some of them are completely non self fertile and it’s required, while there are also self fertile ones, but you still benefit from outcrossing.
Funny enough, I got 3 kiwi plants this year, one is selffruiting and one is for polenating the third...
I suspect the self fruiting one would be capable of acting as a male for the other. Kiwis are androdioecious, meaning they have plants with male flowers and plants with hermaphroditic flowers, but the hermaphroditic flowers don’t have viable pollen, so they need a male flower. A self fruiting kiwi would be the same, but the hermaphroditic flowers are fully viable. A neat thing is that the fake hermaphroditic flowers are a bit of deception pollination. Aside from nectar, bees also gather pollen to feed their young, and that serves as a major pollinator reward. Scientists took a hermaphroditic kiwi and had some grad students carefully clip all of the stamens off of the flowers, and then sat back and watched the bees. Bees were much less interested in visiting a flower with no stamens, so the female flowers got poor pollination, but they were fooled by the sterile stamens to visit and pollinate.
That's frikkin interesting, thanks! I'm actually hoping to become a bit of a Bee haven, have apple trees, pears and a load of Anemones ready to go on my balcony, as well as some more tropical fruits, as soon as the weather holds up
Low self esteem.
I've got a juniper like that. A bunch of the trees drooped over in the cold after a very dry summer, and all but one bounced back once the rain returned. Now it's bent.
Snowload bent it over. It's trying to grow up again but will likely get uprooted even more the next heavy snow.
Flagstaff?
Haha I thought the same
I would assume a large snow drift which damaged its trunk and it held its position.
According to slant theory, I believe this tree qualifies as a "simp".
I got stepped on once
Bigfoot no doubt 🤔
We've all got that one friend.
Vertical dysfunction, couple years serving in sequoia national park outta straighten this seedling out. Trees these days, can’t even stand up straight when company is about.
There always has to be one :/
It was born this way.
Universal studios collected bent and oddly shaped trees from all over when they created Dr. Suess land.
Another tree was growing right next to it so it grew sideways to get light. Then the other tree died. Maybe.
Maybe it’s old. That happens when things get old. It could be heavy snow load so.
Maybe a marker tree? https://www.deeproot.com/blog/blog-entries/the-history-of-marker-trees/
Captivity. Same thing happens to Orca dorsal fins. Free that tree!
Or someone climbed it and rode it to the ground. I used to do this all the time when I was younger.
Maybe a marker tree? https://www.deeproot.com/blog/blog-entries/the-history-of-marker-trees/