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Post by OasisNZ on Mar 6, 2007 18:35:12 GMT 12
One of the radio live talkback hosts the other day put this interesting tale out to the listeners...
He's been growing sunflowers for years, to attract the green finches, which always used to come and eat the sunflower seeds when ripened.
Well, for the last two years, the sunflowers have looked normal in every way, but when the green finches show up to feast, they take a single peck, and look at him as if to say, "are you pulling our blardy legs?"...
Aparently the kernels are empty.
I didn't get to listen to the replies, but his question was this: Is this some sort of genetically modified crop, another cunning plan by monsanto?
This is something my dottery old uncle has been bleating on about for some 150-odd years now, the importance of saving your own seeds.
And I'm not joshing here, I remember my him going on about this when I was knee high to a grasshopper, long before "GM" even became a household phrase, a very wise man methinks...
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Post by meandog on Mar 6, 2007 18:53:32 GMT 12
Well Oasis this is right I have grown them and the seed was useless. But hey genetically modified, I don't think so as this has happened to me way back before all this, 'hoo haa' started. I would like to think something was lacking in the soil for this particular plant.
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Post by misilon1 on May 26, 2007 20:28:34 GMT 12
I read where sunflowers were used to clean contaminated wastewater in an abandoned uranium factory in the US Contamination was reduced from 200 micrograms per liter to below the safety limit of 20 micrograms per liter,. At the Chernobyl reacter sunflowers were used and soaked up 95% of the radioactive whatevers within ten days Its in the roots,..microbes in the plants root systems break down the contaminants and clean the water More than just a pretty flower that brings the sun into ones house ,…and attract the birds
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Post by manuela on May 26, 2007 20:30:34 GMT 12
now THAT is interesting misi!!!!!
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Post by misilon1 on May 26, 2007 20:41:17 GMT 12
yeah I thought so too manuela ,...just makes me wonder why it hasnt been implemented in so many area's that need this treatment ,..they are so easy to grow,..we grow them everyyear without a miss,..I wonder tho what happened to Kims seedless ones ,...
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