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[ChairmanFester]

If you get them in your area, these guys are solid gold. About $16-20/ounce in a store. Great in all kinds of stuff but an alfredo sauce or seared with steak is wonderful.

 

[ChairmanFester]

 

[ChairmanFester]

Dominus vobiscum.
4chan of all places.
Issues a 3 day ban... AU MOI.
For a thread on using plastic explosives to roll joints.
So like...
LAME.

 

[ChairmanFester]

Forth

edramatica.com

 

[BearWater]

Guess what I planted...

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A special 1986 seed stock, from a trusted indy vidy u-all.
A little bassalt rock bump in the soil mix during refresh, it's from a rock terrain after all.

How are these doing?

 

[ChairmanFester]

How are these doing?

A lil sprout yet.

 

[ChairmanFester]

Ordered up some FOX FARM!

Got here today. I first got ferts from this company as a given half bottle or so, with zero faith from the "guy who gave away that crap". No idea why it's not liked because the bloom works great 80% to 20% bud charge at the MOST heavy. But all around good on it's own. Making the first switch tonight.

 

[ChairmanFester]

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GET YER WEED-PLANTS TA PLAY YA SOME TUNES!

Chat:

What MIDI Sprout actually is​

• It’s a small hardware device that measures tiny electrical fluctuations on the surface of a plant’s leaf using probes — basically the same kind of signal you get in human galvanic skin response gear (like primitive lie detectors).
• Those voltage fluctuations are fed into a circuit that converts them into MIDI messages (notes and control data) that a synth or software instrument can interpret as music.

So plants don’t have secret musical thoughts or intentions — the device is picking up electrical noise and translating that into MIDI data that sound generators turn into sound. Changing light, moisture, contact quality, or even you breathing nearby can affect the readings.

Art vs. Science​

This isn’t pseudoscience in the dangerous sense — it’s more art and gimmickry wrapped in tech cosplay:

• Artists and tech folks have been doing plant biodata sonification for decades. MIDI Sprout sprang from that tradition.
• The creators themselves are artists first, not plant neuroscientists. They talk about “connecting with nature” and “plant consciousness” more poetically than scientifically.
• Scientists will happily tell you that plants do respond to environment in complex ways — but there’s zero evidence they intend to play music or have emotions.

Basically: the device reads electrical noise and re‑interprets it. That’s fine if you’re into ambient art, but it’s not evidence of plant thoughts or feelings.

Is it “bullshit”?​

Depends on what you’re judging:


Bullshit if you expect:

• Plants actually communicating or composing music.
• Scientific evidence of plant consciousness.
• Anything beyond weird, fun MIDI triggers.

Not bullshit if you want:

• A novel sound source for ambient music.
• An art installation or generative performance element.
• A conversation piece or experimental tool in a studio.

A lot of musicians on forums basically say the same thing: it’s fun and creative, but technically just a random/chaotic signal source that people like to dress up as “plant music.”

 

[ChairmanFester]

STICK ELECTRODES N SHIT TO 'EM (more chat though)

Rough Total​

Item	Estimated Price
Arduino board	$25–$35
Amplifier module (AD8232 or similar)	$5–$25
Breadboard + wires	$5–$15
Electrodes / pads	$5–$15
USB cable / misc	$3–$8
Optional sensors	$15–$30
Estimated grand total	~$40–$90 (core) + optional $15–$30

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Notes — The Real Science Behind It​

• The AD8232 board you’d use here is originally made as a heart‑rate/EKG front end, but concepts are the same: you’re capturing tiny biological electrical potentials and amplifying them for the Arduino to digitize.
• True plant electrophysiology (like researchers do with action potentials) uses high‑impedance electrodes and careful shielding because the signals are extremely weak and easily drowned by noise — you’ll be experimenting, not diagnosing plant illness.
• This kit won’t magically “tell you the plant’s health,” but it will let you capture and log electrical changes that correlate with environmental stress — if you log baseline readings and compare over time.

 

[BearWater]

Have you seen the dude who makes mushroom music?

 

[ChairmanFester]

That was 2014 or so, yeah unless there is updates. It might be nonsense as music but I think it's NOT nonsense for diagnostics. I'd build an MRI if it was cheap lol. I think they should test the soil too though for microbe conducting.

 

[BearWater]

There’s probably a lot more going on than we can see/measure with our tech, or at least what we can afford to use. Ill bet there is some really cool stuff out there that you and me dont have access to that could help answer a lot of questions.

 

[ChairmanFester]

I really wonder if it's laying around on shelves but we just don't RadioShack anymore as a nation.

 

[BearWater]

I really wonder if it's laying around on shelves but we just don't RadioShack anymore as a nation.

Could be! Im not techy enough to know what id be looking for or at what if i found it! i like reading through some of the happenings though!

 

[ChairmanFester]

Since it's not done I bet just recording anything at all is new data. I hadn't noticed any threads on it lol.

 

[ChairmanFester]

Hey, did you ever want to fool your kids into playing around in Owl shit? Dude, I got you!

Owl Pellet Dissection Kit

This deluxe owl pellet dissection kit comes with a large owl pellet, tools, and study guide. It's the fun way to learn about food webs and owls!

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Imagine their faces when you say "You thought that was educational you little moron? You was playin in shit for an hour!".
Classic american values, there.

 

[BearWater]

Hey, did you ever want to fool your kids into playing around in Owl shit? Dude, I got you!

Owl Pellet Dissection Kit

This deluxe owl pellet dissection kit comes with a large owl pellet, tools, and study guide. It's the fun way to learn about food webs and owls!

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Imagine their faces when you say "You thought that was educational you little moron? You was playin in shit for an hour!".
Classic american values, there.

This was a cool project. I was able to get enough bones out of the “pellets” (not shit) to put some of a mouse or something together on a piece of paper. looking back, thats what sparked my interest in anatomy : )

 

[ChairmanFester]

Maybe I'm traumatized. When I was living next to a farm, the owner's kids would be sent out to play and disappear after school. One day I saw them all having a mud fight, until I realized no... those children of the lord, in the garden of their Eden, were playing with shit. I didn't let mine near them.

 

[BearWater]

Maybe I'm traumatized. When I was living next to a farm, the owner's kids would be sent out to play and disappear after school. One day I saw them all having a mud fight, until I realized no... those children of the lord, in the garden of their Eden, were playing with shit. I didn't let mine near them.

This makes me think of flinging cow pies!

 

[ChairmanFester]

Big girl tent; the one leaf near the zipper has cold spotting for whatever reason now that there a retwo old keyboard fans in the under canopy. I think they're 1" or something, tiny, but they move a little stuck air. If it gets uglier I might trim it but other than that one-leaf problems are kinda whatever.
Crowding is just kind of what I've decided to live with but with an average like 2 Zs a plant I'm almost at replacement level which is about the extent of my ambition lol.

Crazy's remaining two autos with a plastic divider under the soil. They're remarkably happy together but I may transplant soon.

Sprout plus soon to sprout. Pencil watering plain water on those.