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You plant them in the spring.
Before going further, let me give you a crash course in plant biology.
So, what does a plant need in order to grow?
A plant, quite simply, needs light, it needs CO2, but even more importantly, it needs nutrients, which it draws from the soil.
Only 15 percent of this 100 percent goes to the plant.
A hundred percent of the phosphorus is used, but only 15 percent goes to the plant.
And because in order to get 15 percent of it to the plant, all the rest is lost, we have to add more and more.
And over time, this mushroom has evolved and adapted to seek out even the tiniest trace of phosphorus, and to put it to use, to make it available to the plant.
It will proliferate between the root's cells, eventually penetrating a cell and starting to form a typical arbuscular structure, which will considerably increase the exchange interface between the plant and the mushroom.
Now let's add a mycorrhiza plant into the diagram I used earlier.
You’ll see that of this 25 percent, most will benefit the plant, more than 90 percent.
The plant is only able to seek out soluble forms.
The mushroom is capable of dissolving this insoluble form and making it available for the plant to use.
Mycorrhiza has existed for 450 million years, and it has even helped modern-day plant species to diversify.
Where they plant ideas into peoples minds, so they can control them for their own personal gain.
Well, it now turns out that the whales are crucial to sustaining that entire ecosystem, and one of the reasons for this is that they often feed at depth and then they come up to the surface and produce what biologists politely call large fecal plumes, huge explosions of poop right across the surface waters, up in the photic zone, where there's enough light to allow photosynthesis to take place, and those great plumes of fertilizer stimulate the growth of phytoplankton, the plant plankton at the bottom of the food chain, which stimulate the growth of zooplankton, which feed the fish and the krill and all the rest of it.
In parts of the world where there are no bees, or where they plant varieties that are not attractive to bees, people are paid to do the business of pollination by hand.
The very farms that used to sustain bees are now agricultural food deserts, dominated by one or two plant species like corn and soybeans.
It moves through the plant so that a crop pest, a leaf-eating insect, would take a bite of the plant and get a lethal dose and die.
If one of these neonics, we call them, is applied in a high concentration, such as in this ground application, enough of the compound moves through the plant and gets into the pollen and the nectar, where a bee can consume, in this case, a high dose of this neurotoxin that makes the bee twitch and die.
In most agricultural settings, on most of our farms, it's only the seed that's coated with the insecticide, and so a smaller concentration moves through the plant and gets into the pollen and nectar, and if a bee consumes this lower dose, either nothing happens or the bee becomes intoxicated and disoriented and she may not find her way home.
Plant bee-friendly flowers, and don't contaminate these flowers, this bee food, with pesticides.
So go online and search for flowers that are native to your area and plant them.
Plant them in a pot on your doorstep.
Plant them in your front yard, in your lawns, in your boulevards.
We need to plant flowering crop borders and hedge rows to disrupt the agricultural food desert and begin to correct the dysfunctional food system that we've created.
Plant flowers.
When I got back to my work, I asked this question: if I plant a false memory in your mind, does it have repercussions?
And so what these studies are showing is that you can plant false memories and they have repercussions that affect behavior long after the memories take hold.
Well, along with this ability to plant memories and control behavior obviously come some important ethical issues, like, when should we use this mind technology?
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