Tbf in the wild, the plant produces like a million seeds and a few of them develop into plants. In the garden, you plant like one seed and expect this one to grow
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Survivorship bias that is
In the garden it might also be one seed that is also likely a highly selectively bred or hybridized to grow in certain conditions.
Also, wild phenotypes will germinate under a range of different conditions and times, rather than all at once.
Plus we plant a very inbred seed compared to wild analogs
Was about to say exactly this. Wild seedlings are no less vulnerable than indoor seedlings. But you tend to succeed more often when you have 1000s of chances rather than one.
Which is why it's recommended you put 2 or 3 seeds per hole on many seeds packets
Yep, there is a reason a plant expels hundreds of seeds - only a couple survive in the wild.
Damn! Look at all of those seeds on that plane! No wonder they grow just fine.
I can't imagine looking at this and thinking, yeah we don't need to reinforce the cockpit or the engines
The water you gave me had a slightly low pH balance (0.15 lower than my preferred) also did your AC just kick on? I'm allergic 🥹👉🏾👈🏾
It's not always survivorship bias. Lupins grow everywhere where I grew up, but many people couldn't get them growing in their gardens until it was discovered that putting the seeds in a bag of sand and shaking it a bit emulates the rocky soil they prefer scratching their seeds which makes them germinate.
Some trees literally need their cones burned for the seeds to be viable. Nature is metal.
I plant too many seeds. I'm hoping there's enough genetic diversity that there is a plant in there that wants to exist no matter how much I ignore it. That's the plant I want on my property. I want it to make the seeds for the next generation. I want the lowest maintenance plants possible. I will plant 25 tomato seeds and hope that one makes it through. If it doesn't then it wasn't the right tomatoes for me. But that one that does survive gets to go all the way to fruiting and then ferment in its own disgustingness until I pull those seeds out and save them for next year. Because those are the seeds that I can put in the ground and ignore until it's time to harvest.
A couple months after I moved in I had a bad feeling about our septic tank. I called people out to check it. They pulled the cap and part of the freaking mortar retaining wall that was the septic tank moved in a way that brick and mortar should not. Fears confirmed.
$7,000 later I had a new septic tank and I had them dig a new leach field into the front yard so it wouldn't cause problems with the plants and livestock.
I'm all about survival the fittest but at the same time I didn't want human pathogens in my veggies in my yard bird eggs. Just say no to e coli.
I could have done just the tank for about half the cost. The old drain field was completely useless because it wasn't even close to code compliant. But with the field I helped ensure less frequent pumping. Which saves money in the very long term. So I got a new drain field.
You might be interested in knowing that you hand write the serious backing behind you!
Do nothing agriculture: https://www.captainforest.com/the-do-nothing-permaculture-concept-by-masanobu-fukuoka/
Drought resistant seed selection: https://www.lepotagerdesante.com/ (in French)
This sounds like it's right for abuse in selection bias. Needs more blinding so he doesn't know which color they are squeezing.
Tragic m&miscarriage of proper statistical analysis
Bad study design. They need an advisor.
Eat the seeds wait A bit. Take A giant dump in an empty plant pot add water.
Additional advantage: Nobody ever will visit you again.
This kinda thing is why I am planting a lot to work out what actually grows well here.
Broadbeans did, then they got a fungal infection and died off before growing many pods at all. Garlic grew and then decided to barely do anything and get mouldy. Radishes got filled with maggots.
Goosefoot grows everywhere regardless of if I want it or not so I am just going to call it perennial spinach and hope to encourage it to grow larger leaves.
Rhubarb seems to be something that grows well so I recently started that and plan to turn it into wine and jam as well just so I can make use of it all if I get quite a few of them growing.
Jerusalem artichokes seem to be doing well but not time to harvest yet.
I think perennials are the way, need more of them.
I had a friend once who told me that he really thinks the difference between people who are "good with plants" and people who aren't is that the former just keeps trying, they don't give up when they lose one, they accept that happens sometimes.
It's a really beautiful thought but I would be totally lying if I said I wasn't getting kinda discouraged lol
It's the same with everything else. If your drawings looks shit, keep working on them until they don't. If you can't play a song on your instrument, keep practicing it. If you are having problem communicating with people, try new people and/or say something else.
I know some people take this too far.. Their children keep coming out failures so they keep making more.
Oh no, but there are always gonna be phases where you hate your art no matter how good you get
Eep, I guess it really is like everything else!
Keep trying and find what survives. I am at a stage where I am starting to identify things not worth bothering with and have a few that do really well.
Expanding to vegetables this year, had less success than I would like but hopefully at least a few of them are good.
Now that's impressive!
I just have issues with getting down about other things and then being distracted. Then all the sudden things I was growing are all over the place, or tomatoes plants are laying over, cucumber, squash w.e plants are now crossed all over any potential path I may have had and I'm just like fuck it. It'll grow like that and I'll just deal with it as is
Probably some survivor bias going on here. How many wild seeds don't make it?
Very few hehe. Otherwise the earth would have a lot more plant life than it does.
too accurate
Similarly, it takes five hours to start a blaze in a fireplace with kindling and a lighter.
One flicked cigarette ash will start a forest fire...
Survivorship bias
One of my friends told me to start germinating my seeds in the fridge, now I'm getting like 4 out of 5 germinations instead of 1 in 3. I just put them in a bag with a wet paper towel for a couple weeks and they start growing.
It literally just throw things in my garden, and other than an occasional watering that's all I do, everything grows huge. There must be something in the soil.
Ohio?
I visited a distant relative in Ohio once and his small backyard farm’s soil was the richest most luscious black soil I have ever seen. Like something out of a movie or a fairy tale. He told me the soil there was like that going down 30 feet.