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Tokyo (AFP) - A cosmic mystery is uniting monks and scientists in Japan after a cherry tree grown from a seed that orbited the Earth for eight months bloomed years earlier than expected -- and with very surprising flowers.
BlueJacket
Tokyo (AFP) - A cosmic mystery is uniting monks and scientists in Japan after a cherry tree grown from a seed that orbited the Earth for eight months bloomed years earlier than expected -- and with very surprising flowers.
'Cherry tree from space' mystery baffles Japan
I found this fascinating, as did the monks that tend to the tree and its predecessor. Apparently after leaving a cherry pit from a 1250 year old tree to orbit the earth from the space station, the same pit was planted back on earth. It now has bloomed 6 years earlier than expected while no other pits from the same mother tree have followed suit. Just speculation, but could cosmic rays have played a part in this?
It reminds me of Wilhelm Reiches studies on Orgone accumulation back in the 1930s where he claimed to grow plants quicker and more vigorously after exposure to accumulated "orgone"
Source:news.yahoo.com...
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Interesting stuff!
A lot of plants/trees will flower earlier than they should due to adverse conditions-something in them knows on some level that something isn't right and so they initiate flowering faster than they usually would in order to maximise their chances at reproduction.
Maybe some conditions on the ISS led the seed to start the process of flowering early when it was planted back on earth?
Or of course,it may just be due to the tree sensing something not quite right here on terra firma...Fukushima related possibly?
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I agree most likely caused by stress. Some plants will turn in hermaphrodites when they receive to much stress in an attempt to pollinate themselves and reproduce quickly. Most likely what is happening here is it's been stressed, thinks its in danger of dying and trying to reproduce before it's to late.
AutumnWitch657
Should the title of the thread be cherry pit from space?
This makes it sound like a tree fell from the sky.
BlueJacket
reply to post by Vasa Croe
I do ALOT of plant research for a living as well as a hobbyist. Reich's research and the idea behind the function of acupuncture have always bounced around together in my head trying to find a connection.
In the late 1980's, while working for the research department of the Swiss Pharma & Agriculture Giant - Ciba-Geigy (Novartis/Syngenta), Dr Guido Ebner and his colleague Heinz Schürch conducted a series of laboratory experiments with various cereal seeds, plants and fish eggs. In these experiments the seeds and eggs were briefly exposed to an eletrostatic field, a high voltage field without any flowing current.
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Unexpectedly primeval organisms grew out of these seeds and eggs: a fern that no botanist was able to identify; primeval corn with up to twelve ears per stalk; wheat that was ready to be harvested in just four to six weeks. A giant trout, extinct in Europe for 130 years, with so-called salmon hooks. It was as if these organisms accessed their own genetic memories on command in the electric field...
BlueJacket
reply to post by ChaoticOrder
Thank you, I forgot about those studies! Excellent addition to the thread I appreciate the input...that further grounds my speculation on Reich's orgone theory. I know I am reaching. but daisy chains of Reich's base accumulator produced measurable voltage, it really makes me wonder.