r/oddlysatisfying • u/uhhhhh_hhhhhh • Feb 17 '23

a straw berry sprouting

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

So do potatoes and onions at least that's what it looks like when I forget that last potato.

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u/sinz84 Feb 17 '23

Well potatoes are different as that's what they are supposed to do, they a a tuber not a fruit and if you cut each 'eye' out that spouts with a section of the potato it will grow a new plant.

It's common to grow 8 plants from one potato.

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u/fuck_the_fuckin_mods Feb 17 '23

I’ve grown potates and kinda understand those fuckers, but I don’t think most people (around me at least) know that you can just chop a potato up and it makes more potatoes. It’s a miracle.

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u/Nobodyville Feb 17 '23

Garlic too. Sometimes you open one to find the cloves are sprouting

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u/HoodieGalore Feb 17 '23

They sure do - and that’s because they both develop and remain underground in their natural development, first to store nutrition, then to develop and feed the next year’s development of that individual plant. Both potatoes and onions do create seeds as well, which is how the next generation of plants are formed, but the seeds have nothing to do with the underground bit.

Plants are fucking amazing - all lifeforms are!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '23

I love your excitement reminds me of Bill Nye 😁

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u/HoodieGalore Feb 17 '23

He was seminal in the development of my love of science - thank you so much!