dammit i know it won’t be ripe for another month and a half and you’re gonna make me go check the berry bush
I am the opposite. Things just like this make me happy for understanding them. I want to know how everything works. It’s so gratifying and interesting.
But you never will know most things in the world.
Then you’ll never have to be bored, there’s always something more to learn
That’s what makes it so beautiful to learn what I can. I do sometimes feel overwhelmed by the enormity of it all, but what grounds me is taking the time to feel joy at each wonderful little thing I do have the opportunity to learn, as well as the opportunity to share my learning with others.
Throughout my life, I have accumulated a heckton of random knowledge, all tied together by my subjective perspective. There are things that I know that no-one else can know — insights that come from a particular arrangement of facts and experiences. It gives me a sense of clarity because it reminds me that one of my duties is simply to just “hold the camera”, so to speak — to be the anchor for my particular, situated perspective
That’s when the 80:20 rule cones to rescue.
And when you don’t know what 80:20 rule means, that’s when Wikipedia comes to the rescue.
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80:20 rule, the law of the vital few and the principle of factor sparsity[1][2]) states that, for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the “vital few”).[1]
are there people who dont know that flowers turn into seeds (which in the case of fruit, the fruit itself contains the seeds)
Yes.
There are a shocking number of people out there who are so far removed from touching grass that they literally have no idea about this kind of stuff. People who think a factory made the fruit they see on grocery store shelves.
My grown ass colleague, 26 years old, thought store bought beef is made from industrial process from chemicals and only local butcher shops cut animals. I only learned that after working 4 years with him when we got to really talking about why I’m vegan. He thought since supermarket meat is from chemicals, my point of being vegan was moot.
So I won’t be surprised there are guys out there that don’t know how fruit is made.
Some people are underprivileged and grow up in inner city neighborhoods where they have no access to reliable transportation to wilderness areas or even urban greenspace. It’s not always a “touch grass” situation.
Me, I grew up eating dirt and berries that I was pretty sure weren’t poisonous. I didn’t believe in washing my hands too much because I thought it would weaken my immune system.
The thing is, being familiar with nature didn’t help me navigate social situations. Someone who grew up in a city and has never seen a real forest is probably wayyy better adjusted and socially-integrated than I’ll ever be…
You’re telling me berry hens aren’t a thing? Next you’re gonna tell me some bullshit like chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows.
like chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows.
Wait…wut…???
You should have said “how now?”
Sup fam?
I’ll have you know that my friend at the ACME chocolate milk factory, Willie, swore to me that only brown cows can be used for production. He swore this over a stack of Spider-Man comics, so this is convincing and compelling evidence. Please retract your assertion good sir!!!
Touching grass makes a botanist?
Being around plants will help you understand plants better, yes. It won’t make you a botanist … but it doesn’t take a botanist to tell that buds become flowers and then become berries.
Look man, I don’t know what to tell you. I tried growing plants, and feeding them Brawndo. It’s not fault stupid plants don’t want to stupid grow! I fed them electrolites and everything. Plants growing on their own is all a conspiracy. Factories grow plants. Everyone knows that!
I know how fruit/most plants work but I’ve never seen the stages of this particular berry laid out this way. Thought it was cool looking…
You forgot the step where it overtakes your yard and life.
Them? Are there untame breeds? Or is ours just self-domesticated?
Himalayan Blackberry. An invasive for sure. Love the berry, but hate the plant as they spread very aggressively.
TIL, and it’s 5 AM.
Well, good morning and have an excellent day!
Night, you meant.
I read an article several years ago that was arguing that blackberry plants should be classed as carnivores. The idea sounds absolutely absurd, but the more you squint at it, the more sense it makes. Blackberry bushes grow incredibly dense thickets of brambles, and those brambles snag and don’t let go easily. Shepherds in areas with blackberry bushes often have to rescue sheep that eat the blackberries and get stuck in the brambles. If they don’t get rescued, they’ll eventually die and decompose, thus adding a bunch of nitrogen and other useful chemicals to the soil which cause the plant to become larger and healthier.
So while they don’t actively kill creatures like the venus fly trap or pitcher plants, they do grow in a way that can trap and kill animals, and they benefit hugely from the nutrients those animals provide.
Who are you who is so wise in the ways of science?
my name is Tim
Fish don’t exist.
No, they do exist. It’s just that everything is fish.
In a way, we are all fish.
Hiccups.
Seriously. Google it.
Pretty cool concept, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing bro that’s super interesting.
I appreciate whoever took the time to find enough berries and pre-berries, and then arranged them so nicely
You probably can have half of these on the same bush. Our blackberry bushes constantly had fresh ripe ones for months. They dont all grow in sync. So then you just need a late and an early bloomer and you can have all of them.
my question is how did they preserve the earlier stages long enough to still look good? i feel like i’ve never seen a blackberry bush with good looking flowers and fruit at the same time
What you need is a whole bramble! Ive never seen a blackberry bush as such, but an entire wall of plants? Yes. They’ll continue to produce steadily for weeks/months.
It might be shopped. Take a picture at each stage, then arrange them all on a background.
Nah. You can easily find all stages on one bramble.
lol now someone do this version
Oh that’s a good point
Maybe it’s a farm or greenhouse with plants in different stages of growth?
New flowers and berries can still be growing while some are fully grown, especially if part of the plant is in shade but not all of it.
Could have taken the pictures over time and combined them with GIMP or Photoshop.
Including shitposts
Every day I realize how education has progressively failed us in the United States over the years since I left school.
Repeated budget cuts and restrictions tend to do that, yeah. Hell even when I was in school I saw them cutting education, saw half of this coming and got called crazy for it.
The shape of the final fruit leaves me unconvinced that its not a black raspberry.
Without leaves or an angle peering into the top from where the stem was removed, its basically impossible to confirm my suspicioms. But something in my gut says um, actually.
They are very closely related anyway. I have a few plants in my garden that are hybrids of raspberries and blackberries.
This is what people mean when they say “touch grass”
Spending a lot of time outdoors as a kid then seeing this pic is kinda…yeah that’s how it works. Plus back in the day Discovery and other educational channels were actually educational, so you could learn about stuff you might not get to personally see.
People stay indoors and the Discovery Channel makes crap like Ice Road Truckers.
Yeah.
It’s a blackberry not a grass
Around here the blackberries touch you.
Scout Master Tim?
that picture is funky because it gives the impression there’s like 20 stages…there’s only 5 stages for the plant, with 2 of them being directly related to the berry. (yes I’m aware that the plant growth is related to berry growth…)
flowering, and fruiting. the rest is plant growth.
Academic mindset. I am sure there is a good rationale behind the 5 stages. But please remember nature is not discrete, the qualia overlap. We could recognize any number of stages.
2 sperm per sweet. Simple as.
Well, what did you expect?
Exactly. Like yes, this is cool, no doubt, but if a person truly had to stop and think about how this plant grew beyond just a quick knee-jerk reaction, surely this would have to be the logical conclusion… right?
I don’t think it’s intuitive that fruit comes from flowers. I think that’s something you have to observe or learn, otherwise you’d think fruit and flowers are separate things
Berry hen to just lay them every day.
Uh, why? If it’s about the pink one loking like a raspberry; no, it’s not.
Oil go splooosh into bucket. No more oil splooshing? Screwy thing goes back on. Yell all set bay 2!
TIL weed is just blackberries.
What
