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As somebody else said: it depends. Some fertilizers are shit and contain harmful shit but most are fine.

Here's some things to know tho:

1. If fertilizer gets on the leaves you must wash them before eating (which should be done anyway) as the residue may have toxic heavy metals (which may be there for plant growth).

2. Fertilizer is developed for maximum profits, only things that are needed for fast growth are added. this causes the plants to grow fast but with little nutrients needed for healthy long term growth. Its like plant fast food, it's cheap to make and will make you fat fast but your going to need more than just carbs fat and suger to be healthy.

So the plant will have less nutrients for us, and more importantly less flavour, for herbs like basil and celery the flavour difference is incredible.

for spinach flavour doesn't matter much. spinach also has basically no nutrients for us in the first place, in fact the oxalic acid in Spinach, when eaten, removes calcium from your body. So fast growing spinach has basically no downsides.

For a more complete diet I would recommend a seeweed based fertilizer (make sure it's sustainably harvested!).

3. dont let any fertilizer get in a river/lake any fertilizer will unbalance its ecosystem.

Also sweet potato (Kumara) leaves are so so good. And easer to grow, and you get sweet potatoes, and they are healthier, and have much less oxalic acid. Only problem with them is they are not very frost resistant and require more light, if you want tubers, then spinach, (in low light it may not produce tubers but will still have leaves).

Yes exactly, fertilizer are all about growing a plant as quickly as possible for as little money as possible, so many miss out important nutritents for nutritious plants in the eye of profit. Edit: I meant to have the original comment here on the main thread woops, this is all I wanted to say here

Unfortunately the alpha roll-out had a major unpached bug causing a complete internal breakdown of the ethics and intelligence processing units in all those updated.

Some hypothesis that as alpha men now have the processing capacity of an ant, they may soon evolve a hive-mind. As this would allow all mental processing to be outsourced to a singular fat orange queen.

Edit: spelling

Our young Tui are practicing right now, its so fun watching them barely be able to sing, sounding like a donkey while trying there best to imitate the melodic adults.

Then they slowly grow up and learn new things until eventully they can perfectly imitate our car reversing beep, fooling us to think someone is stealing our car.

Lookd like its next to a sink, methinks soap

Its always nice to see one of your videos, (much better than some clickbaity science news article) You asked in your description of the video what we think should be in the description, i think it would be nice to know where you got the sample from/its story as well as what we might be looking at.

I liked it like this in your previos videos e.g. spagnum one, and I think it makes it a lot more intresting.

This is based on the large leaves with a fishtail shape and the purple pink old flowers. also it seems it does not spread by seed rather it "reproduces by bulbs and bulbils produced from the underground stems." source

Sounds like Oxalis latifolia it is a common invasive species in australia.

(I am no expert so take my ID with a grain of salt)

And bad for everything but the algea is bad for the ecosystem the algea relies on to live

Algae itself needs a functioning ecosystem to survive, to much algea will cause it to kill itself due to overpopulation (e.g. using up resources and dead algea not being cleaned up) while in a small scale humans can care for the algea, taking the place of the ecosystem, for any large area this would be unfeasible and the ecosystem including the algea would collapse.

A benifit of biodiversity is greater resilance to change, by selecting for the growth of specific algea using iron you cause other algea/plant that rely on the prior ecosys to die out (including those reliant on other organisms which died). this group of less diverse algea will be more susceptible to change, (diseases or environmental change) and as most of the algea in the world will be similar, most of the algea in the world could get wiped out in one go.

So the likely outcome would be an initial spike in carbon capture before the environment becomes unsuitable, collapses, and most of the algea dies.

So all im all at any meaningful scale in the sea this is and will always be, a terrible idea.

(A better idea would be lots of small manigable algea tanks which could realistically be maintained and won't affect the current diversity, diseases could also not spread between them. This would be expensive but could actually work as a long term solution)

Thank you!

Also how does a seed library work? is it where people bring there excess grown seeds to share with others, because if so that's so cool, I wish we had a thing like that here