Moody Plants?!

[MoonChild78]

I'm not sure if I'm the only one here but do you have moody plants?! I have plants that I can put anywhere, give any kind of water to and they flourish. I have a couple other that if I don't water them on Wednesday and Sunday... move them an inch from where they normally are or do anything of the sort "out of routine" they die, wither or just have "plant emotional breakdowns"!!

I think I'm nuts... I know that plants have feelings but am I the only one with this problem!!

**I've thought that it was a light issue, heat/cold issue, ect. and I've gone through everything that could make sense and all I can come with is that I have moody plants?!

[memnoch]

soooo not what I thought this thread was about

[Nicholas]

Plants don't have moods, they are plants. (I selected other)

[hummingbird]

i've recently picked up a book that may interest you about plants it called "the Secret Life of Plants" by perter Tompkins and christopher Bird. It talkes about a fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man. I just recently picked it up at the books store. I haven't read very far into it (my 2 yr old keeps me busy). but so far it's quite interesting.

[Weatherlite]

Glad you bumped this Hummingbird because I never saw it before.

Some people say animals don't have feelings or have no souls etc yet we all know that animals most certainly do have feelings and can interact in intelligent ways. The way I see it is "animals are people too". I kinda view plants in a similar light. Sure, they're just a collection of cells grouped into specialties to keep the organism alive, but does that mean it doesn't have a consciousness on a different level than we understand? I truly think there is some sort of consciousness in almost all things but especially plants.

I have known some plants that just refused to live no matter what you did. Some which had to be in just the right spot with the right temperature, etc.

So yes, plants CAN be moody. On a side note (sorta) my mom was given a Yucca plant by my brother when he was in the 2nd grade. Let's see...that would be 1976. He loved the plant and thought it would be the best thing in the world to give to my mother. Well, she may like plants but she does NOT have a brown thumb. She could kill a fake plant, that's how bad she is. lol Well, this plant she didn't like so she ignored it pretty much. It lived. Years later she decided it was time to kill it so she would overwater it beyond belief (it's a desert plant) or she would not water it for months and months on end. Guess what? Come 1993 she moved to FL and planted it outside the house. She figured if it had laster 17 years who was she to say it needed to go away. Today it is still beside her house and is thriving quite well. Just freakin amazing. Take any other yucca and try to do the same thing and I doubt you would have the same results. I chalk that one up to that particular plant's personality.

[Bird]

I think particular species are moody. Carrots hate me; I can't grow them and I've tried for years. Goodness knows what I ever did to them!

[HorseCrow]

I don't know if I believe plants have moods in the human sense of mood, but I sure do believe some plants are way tougher than others (including others of the same species). Just today I re-potted a small sage-bush that I have had for years, and for the life of me I cannot believe it is still alive. It has been left (forgotten) outside for three winters in a row now and this passed winter has been 3 months of snow and temps way below freezing. It really should be dead, but it's not. Last spring I accidentally dropped it while moving pots around and it fell right on its "head" breaking and splitting all its branches so that I had to cut it waaaaay back, in fact there was just a little stump left. But sure enough- a few months later it was super big and lush again.

[TheWomanMonster]

My plants aren't moody they're just evolved to match an environment that I (sometimes) struggle to recreate.

[~*Sacred*~]

I couldn't find it, but somewhere on MW in the pat 9months someone posted a lot of youtube clips about plants/trees "thinking" and "feeling" pain/thoughts of humans around them.