Botany

[Anonymous No.14490624]

Is gardening really a science? Which plants are best?

[Anonymous No.14490633]

>>14490624
Mango is the best plant. I have eaten 14 mangoes in the last 3 days.

[Anonymous No.14490665]

>>14490633
that's a substantial number of mangos.

[Anonymous No.14490673]

>>14490665
Man goes to toilet

[Anonymous No.14490676]

>>14490665
>>14490673
My mom bought a huge box of them.

[Anonymous No.14490703]

>>14490633
>>14490665
>>14490673
>>14490676

Fuck mango

Instead

Try

Passionfruit.

[Anonymous No.14490760]

>>14490624
it's not gardening, it's study of plants.
best plants are bryophytes (moss), they literally terraform nature

[Anonymous No.14490763]

>>14490760
how do they stack up against lichen?

[Anonymous No.14491670]

>>14490624
>Is gardening really a science?
You could consider it as applied biology.
>Which plants are best?
I like fruit trees and bushes, I have about a dozen in my garden. Very comfy.

[Anonymous No.14491681]

>>14490633
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anz_v3gfVBE

[Anonymous No.14493509]

>>14490665
The saying "... don't grow on trees" exists for a reason.

[Anonymous No.14493849]

>>14490624
weed bro, it opens your third eye

[Anonymous No.14493894]

>>14490624
>name literally means study of plants which is responsible for modern agricultural practices that have allowed the human population and society to evolve rapidly
>proceeds to call it gardening
Leave it to scifags to be the most ungrateful and insufferable faggots on the planet holy

[Anonymous No.14493898]

>>14490703
No
Mango is better

[Anonymous No.14494811]

>>14490624
sativa without any doubt
/thread

[Anonymous No.14494916]

There's some crazy shit like using plants to clean/harvest contaminated soils with a lot of chemicals.

There's some that can harvest shit like I think silver into their leaves and other industrial minerals.

Some people are looking to use them as low cost massive form of ecologically friendly form of mining in places with low concentration of some mineral and therefore not economically viable for traditional mining.

Also china is basically planting massive forest to containt their massive deserts and terraform them.
China is based and plants are based for this.

[Anonymous No.14495028]

>>14494916
Mining silver using plants seems very far fetched; even if the plants work, the yield per acre must be abysmal compared to virtually any other cash crop. And you best hope this silver harvesting plant doesn't need nitrate fertilizer to grow well in this silver soil, since nitrate mining is very destructive and should probably be reserved for growing food and other materials we need more than silver.

also
>china is based because tree farms
pic related

[Anonymous No.14495038]

>>14495028
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/science/metal-plants-farm.html

No, but is extremelly low cost compare to traditional mining, enviromentally friendly and can yield on places where the concentration in the soil is so low it's not economically viable to extract with traditional methods.

Nickel by example can be harvested as a crop with around 56 species of plants.

[Anonymous No.14495043]

>>14495038
What we need are dual-use crops that harvest valuable minerals but also produce edible food. Otherwise these mining crops would be competing with food crops for fresh water, arable land, and fertilizer.

[Anonymous No.14495046]

>>14495043
nah, they usually grow in places that are too toxic for food plants to grow.

[Anonymous No.14495050]

>>14495046
There's still the problem of fresh water, assuming these crops need irrigation, and fertilizer. If they need neither of these things, are these plants already flourishing in these areas in industrial quantities?

[Anonymous No.14495055]

>>14495050
those plants evolved in mineral rich grounds which are fucking TOXIC to most other plants.

They're basically the weeds we destroy in normal crops I think.

There's some trees in some islands that their blood is filled with the island soil rich mineral.

[Anonymous No.14495067]

>>14495055
I don't know man, I'm skeptical. The pictures from this article show the area they're testing in has a lot of plant growth, it's not a barren wasteland. It's a shitty plot of land regardless, on the side of a hill with lots of rocks, which may very well be the reason nobody was farming anything more useful there before. Very tough land to work with.

[Anonymous No.14495073]

>>14495067
yeah, which is the point, toxic places rich in minerals exist since billions of years here, they're not new.

A shit ton of plants have evolved to harvest such minerals.

[Anonymous No.14495089]

>>14490624
>Botanist study how to make plants more resilient
>Botanists study how changing soils impact the food supply
>Botanists try to figure out how we will get past he Phosphorus crisis
NO HECKIN WAY /SCI/ THIS IS A FAKE HECKIN SCIENCINOO AMIRITE FRICKEN DOG SO FAKE N SH*T

[Anonymous No.14495103]

>>14495073
>>14495055
What about growing cassava (a staple food) to harvest nickel?

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-88919-7_3

[Anonymous No.14495108]

>>14495103
dunno, I'm not even a biologist, just some random retard who watches videos about /stem/ shit on youtube.

Could be interesting very profitable crop if you can autism shit it.

[Anonymous No.14497947]

>>14490624
>Is gardening really a science?
Botany yes.
>Which plants are best?
Fungi.
Ik its not a plant but its still considered part of botany. Mushrooms are incredibly fascinating

>>14490703
>>14493898
Persimmons are pretty based imo

[Anonymous No.14497998]

The 2016 FARM Act excluded industrial hemp from the definition of "marihuana" -- specifically, Cannabis sativa L. with a delta-nine tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3% on a dry weight basis. Essentially legalizing the production of (very low-THC) weed (with proper state permits).
You have already missed this boat, as even small-time cannabis producers have had botanists cloning and experimenting with their plants to produce healthy bud that falls just below the legal limit.
Spent a few days trimming 0.28% THC bud in my friend's backyard in a state where recreational weed isn't even legal (the flower he doesn't sell outright gets sold to bigger companies that make gummies and candies and stuff out of it). Pretty wild.

Anyway, that's just one recent application of botany.