Did you know that tomatoes talk?

[Pippin]

Scientists recorded plant sounds and tomato was one test subject. Interesting sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOWaXi0I2YE

[bower]

I heard about this in Nature Briefing, but this video is really cool! I love that the grape sound is different from the tomato plants.
I wonder who in the animal kindom is listening to these sounds. Birds or bats?

[worth1]

I heard about this in Nature Briefing, but this video is really cool! I love that the grape sound is different from the tomato plants.
I wonder who in the animal kindom is listening to these sounds. Birds or bats?

Probably someone on LSD.

[bower]

https://transition.fcc.gov/oet/spectrum ... ctable.pdf
Maritime, Private Land Mobile, Aviation, Amateur, and International Broadcast Stations.
Shockingly no allocation for tomatoes, or even grapes! But they may be reaching out to your Private Land Mobile....

Ultrasound is 2-18 Mhz.
Bat frequencies: 9-200 khz. Not even close.

[pepperhead212]

I heard about this in Nature Briefing, but this video is really cool! I love that the grape sound is different from the tomato plants.
I wonder who in the animal kindom is listening to these sounds. Birds or bats?

Probably someone on LSD.

Maybe that's when this started, with LSD! Back in the 70s, when in college, I remember some article about plants feeling pain, and someone proving it by attaching electrodes to them, and seeing the impulses when one of the stems is cut, or when they are watered, or various other things. When the vegetarians at the co-op would start preaching about killing animals, I would point out that "plants have feelings, too", and the only way to prevent eating things that you (or someone) has caused pain to would be scavenging things that died naturally (including dead animals) - even nuts, grains, and other seeds are living things, waiting to create another plant. None of them had a comeback to that.

[bower]

@pepperhead212 we did that experiment in my Plant Physiology lab. Electrodes attached to cut lettuce leaves. Yes they are still alive when freshly cut, with all the normal functions (respiration and photosynthesis, if there's light) and responding to stimuli.
I think everything we eat must be treated with respect, whether animal or plant or fungus. It's easy with plants, if you grow them. Make sure they have a good life, and promise to save their seeds and grow again. That's what I do.
I don't have the gear to translate their sound on the spot, and see what they think about it, but I'm thinking it's better than nothing.

[worth1]

So what if you could translate the plant you were cutting up and it was screaming, Oh God please help me noooooo!
Just asking.

[Sue_CT]

I read about this recently. This is disturbing. I think I would rather not know.

[worth1]

Ok I got the dreadful idea from a Black Sabbath song one of my favorites as a matter of fact.
It where someone meets the devil come to take him away..
Just replace the person with the tomato and the devil with a chef with a big knife and it all comes together in a big way.
And the end is so much like the food chopping has ended.
Naturally you're looking through the eyes and mind of the tomato during the song.
And as the tempo increases so are the vegetables being chopped up to meet their end on the flames of the stove not the flames of hell.
Yes I have wild imagination.

Enjoy..

[Moth1992]

I need to read the article when I have time. Im curious how they define "emits sounds", if as an active thing? or as any passive thing?. Like dead wood emits sounds. Rocks emit sounds. Everything emits sounds.

[JRinPA]

Of course they talk. Duh.
The cherries get annoying to listen to, they are too high pitched and way too many of them, all screaming for attention, like a mild tinnitus.

Big Beefs, they just talk in a steady monotone and repeat the same thing over and over, kinda boring. I don't even know which one is talking half the time. So pick them all.

Cuostralee and Brandywine, they are really full of themselves. I look really good, don't I? I taste, like really sweet, huh? I bet you'll be dreaming of me in December... How do they know!? Get out of my head.

Sweet Ozark Orange, he's chill, he doesn't have to prove nothin' to no one. And he ain't giving up his spot, neither.

The most annoying to me is Costoluto Genovese. Very impatient. A real primadona.
(the following bad Italian accent inspired by decades of watching American television)
Monday
CGeno: Ah, bellissimo, I'm a so happy to see you. Pick me, I'ma perfecto right now!
Me: Yeah, you are nice, great ribs man.. but I'm not ready, you have to wait until this weekend when I have time to make sauce.

Wed.
CGeno: - Oh no, help, I need a medico, the bird, he tried to kill me. Pick me, pick a me now, before I rot!
Me: NO, jeez dude, pull yourself together and hang on. It's not that hot. You're not going inside. I'll have time in two more days.

Thurs.
CGeno: Oh, no, Ima hurt, ima melting! Please.. Ima never gonna see my sweet mama- <splat>

Fri.
Me: Now where did that cry baby get to?

Yeah, they talk. A lot. Sometimes, it gets so bad I can't even hear myself think.

[Wildcat82]

I need to read the article when I have time. Im curious how they define "emits sounds", if as an active thing? or as any passive thing?. Like dead wood emits sounds. Rocks emit sounds. Everything emits sounds.

Grasses make sounds when one node overcome friction of the stalk and shoots up a few millimeters. You can actually hear corn growing at night when it's still.
https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/corn/s ... rn-growing

[bower]

Well I don't have any doubt that tomatoes actively talk. What I'd really like to see is some proof that they listen.

[slugworth]

tomatoes and lettuce talk to each other about bacon.

[ddsack]

@JRinPA

I loved your post! But you must have the reaction icon turned off, so I can't click a like or love on it. No matter.
I can hear my silly tomatos talking to me in their various voices too!

[bower]

@JRinPA is gifted. He doesn't need icons... he can hear us ROFL.

[pepperhead212]

Once they start coming in, I hear those plates of peppers on my counter calling to my friends that walk by "Go ahead, try me! Make my day..."

[Lemonboy]

This explains why I was hearing "bigger pots" all weekend, in stereo.