My new favorite educator on RU-vid! I graduated college a few months ago with a psych degree and yet here I am suddenly passionate about gardening. I type this as my indoor plant with three brown, wilted leaves stares down at me with contempt. P.S. if you have ADHD or any trouble focusing on certain subjects for long periods of time, I recommend watching at 1.5x speed :)
Here is my take away: 1. Diversity: Plant kingdom is diverse and there are diverse responses to stimuli between plant varieties 2. Leaves: leaves absorb sunlight, produce food and perform transpiration 3. Buds: At the base of every leaf there is a bud 4. Balance: energy balance must be maintained between the roots and stems 5. Growth: there are 4 places of growth: terminal, lateral, root tips and cambium 6. Reproduction: it is top priority 7. Dwarfing: pruning is a way to dwarf 8. Control: bud growth is controlled by hormones/chemicals
What an amazing class! This is the kind of teaching I have been looking for. I love how the scientific principles are made concrete through the anecdotes and application to plant puzzles. They really helped me understand the science. Thank you!
Fantastic lecture! I particularly love the case studies the presenter seeds here and there to get to the root of the issue and really plant the idea. Really helps stem the boredom and leafs you guessing!
This was an amazing learning experience for me. I also think it's funny that half the time on the left table that lady had to keep all those plants there on her desk space. Great vid!
A thousand thanks! That was s-o-o-o o good. I now consider myself seriously enlightened. That lecture was really comprehensive, and i will never look at the garden in quite the same way again...made all the intensive studying of botany I have doing all make good practical sense in one moment. Keep those videos coming.
Currently doing a horticulture course and the notes are too much to take in... Thanku for a wonderful lecture, learnt way more in this vid than i ever would in particular course!!
This has been really helpful. I’ve been trying to get into horticulture and botany but have found it quite difficult to find a starting point. This has definitely set me in the right direction
I missed sign up by one day in Maricopa County. I have my own nursery and volunteer with the elderly in the wv to help provide quality service to those with fixed budgets. Thank you for giving me a formal resource so I can continue my education, I hate the way the classes are so limited in this county.
I'm a senior accounting student who now regrets my major but with no schools anywhere near me offering botany, I'm going to learn some basics and then maybe in the future I can go for a bachelors...
You dont need to go to college . I make a nice living off plants and i have had no formal education.I occasionally teach PHDs and people with master degrees(i get a kick out of that). If you want the names of some great books that really helped let me know.You can use your accounting degree to get you into growing. All ag companies ,farms and ,nurseries need accountants.
Nate L hey, I'm always looking for more textbooks, I'm not turned off by textbooks either! I dropped out of college but I'm looking to pursue my passion. I am however limited to many undergrad books but looking for more in depth books.
So much to learn:flora,fauna,Humankind,Elements,visible and invisible,so much I go crazy. All God'sCreatures. The Solar System. The Multiverses.... And iam just an Insignificant speck in the whole of this Complex. All in One One in All.
I realize this is an older video but I have a question regarding transplanting houseplants. I am always telling people to not break up the root ball when they transplant. I try very hard not to damage the root ball when transplanting. It sounds like you agree with me?
You gotta start somewhere. Write any questions you have along with your notes and chase answers for them. That's how you build a quick map of a subject, and ultimately, experiment.
Somehow I missed the 2hr marker for the time and thought this was gonna be one of those goofy 8 quick tip kinda vids. That said, when you really wanna learn something its gonna take more than 2 hrs, so this is a good start.
The part where he was talking about how he figured out what was wrong with the ash trees my mind was blown. I was sitting in my chair being like "OMG What the HECK is killing the TREES????" and it turned out to be a string trimmer. I was blown away.
I really want to be able to go to college, but its very expensive, I dont think im smart enough, and I dont want to regret spending thousands on a major I dont want
So apparently you didn't see the part where it says he has a BS in Biology and a MS in Plant Protection....I bet he could teach you alot that you never learned
Amirpasha Shabestari I'm assuming English might not be your first language, but just for future reference it's great. Just letting you know not trying to be a nuisance!
This presentation is missing - how to apply the 8 rules. It would be much more beneficial by first stating the rules then how to apply them to your plants.
Take a look at plant classification. There is a division between Fungi, mosses, ferns, etc(spore plants), and basically "everything" else (seed plants).
