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Old 29-08-2003, 07:02 AM
Frank Martin
 
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Default Are plants social? Huh?

Sarcasm is the LOWEST form of wit.


"Cereoid-UR12-" wrote in message
m...
ROTFLMAO!!

You are right on target about orchid growers, Iris.

They also tend to become more insufferably elitist and arrogant when they
congregate "en masse" like a flock of vultures!!! They are incestuously
social among themselves but extremely antisocial toward other plant
societies!!!


Iris Cohen wrote in message
...
I'm missing the hint for allelopathie, the research of reciprocal

influences
of plants, practicized by friends of "Mischkultur", mainly explained by
mycorrhizal effects in the edaphone - founded by H. Molisch, university

of
Vienna,

Sounds like a bunch of hooey.

you can hear more of this from orchid friends, it's their primary

focus


You are confused. Orchids are generally grown in individual pots,

grouped
together in a greenhouse or growing area simply for covenience & control

of
lighting & humidity. Most amateurs have a collection of various

different
orchids. Now when you talk about orchid growers, they have a very strong
tendency to congregate in groups, local groups once a month, national or
regional groups once a year. Individual growers languish & show signs of

severe
depression if they are forced to exist alone. This phenomenon is found

among
many kinds of growers, not just of orchids.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the

oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)