Side Quest: Plants (this is the corn video)

[rejectconvenience]

https://youtu.be/FwQpxZM66Xc

I seriously had so much fun making this one. New rendering challenges, new workflow techniques, it was just all around a blast. I hope you enjoy something different!

[Mæstro]

‘Turns out, plants really like sunshine. Who knew?’
If I ever were to take up gardening, I would need to grow mushrooms. Sunlight irritates my skin (I use a parasol when I go out) and I darken my rooms with thick curtains, so I need plants which do not mind that.
The gymnosperms and cryptogams continue to enjoy a flowerless existence, even if flowering plants have supplanted most of them. They should get more love.

I dislike describing cultivated plants as man-made or ‘manipulated’. The variations involved would occur naturally, and the maize plant grows according to its own, unaltered nature; man’s only part in it was to maintain an environment where they could thrive, whereas they would have otherwise perished as freaks of nature. This fine point should not detract from how I enjoyed this film as a whole. I would quite enjoy more botanical discourses on your channel.

I am surprised you have got a Discord channel now after saying you disliked the site. What inspired you to create one there?

[rejectconvenience]

I am surprised you have got a Discord channel now after saying you disliked the site. What inspired you to create one there?

It's specifically for the Patreons. I thought a lot about it, and I can't really offer a lot of perks in general at this time, so that seemed like a reasonable one. Most people that use Patreon already link up their Discord accounts for other folks, so it wasn't like I was forcing people to join it or anything. That said, I encourage everyone there to be active here, because this is where I want the actual conversations to happen. That was the whole point of the forum, after all

[Fireye]

Loved seeing your new environments with all the plants; It's super inspiring to see your technical workflow improve from video to video. (Also hbomberguy cameo whaaaat) Regardless, I've been inspired to hop into blender later today to see what I can put together lmao. Thanks!

[zonk]

corm

[CitricScion]

When I tell other people that your channel is one people are sleeping on, it's for videos like this. Your craft is great and improving with every video. The styling on the plants and changing the background was awesome. I'll stop - it's cringe of me. But seriously, great video.

[trafficone]

AWW YEAH THIS VIDEO IS MY JAM!

Beans are so f*cking cool! Ok, so first off, like almost all RAW beans are toxic, so if you're growing beans keep your kids/pets/etc. away from the beans. Cooking them destroys the poison, so be sure to fully cook beans before you eat them.

But what's really really cool is that beans don't convert nitrogen in the air into something available in the soil. They cultivate bacteria which can do the conversion in nodes in their roots. So, while you're farming beans, the beans are farming bacteria.

[Mæstro]

This is true in general. Green plants are incapable of fixing nitrogen themselves, but depend on lightning or bacteria hosted in the root to fix it or them. Among others, the bacilli which cause tetanus and botulism (Clostridium spp) are at home in the soil, fixing nitrogen for themselves. Some blue-green algae, such as Anabaena, develop specialised cells for fixation to support nearby green cells. This being noted, all plants are capable of forming protein from inorganic nitrate salts once the nitrogen has been fixed; this is one of the features which are traditionally used to distinguish them from animals.

As an aside, because I cannot send private messages, have you considered joining the Traffic Cone Preservation Society?

[QueriesNTheories]

Oh this was such a delight and you looked like you had a lot of fun making it

I am a former succulent parent of four, and yeah that water frequency is like. so crucial. I reckon I overwatered mine and they eventually succumbed to root rot. One of them tried to grow an offshoot which I tried to propagate, but it didn't work
I eventually passed them off to a more green-thumbed family member, and the survivors did a lot better under his care.

Since you brought up how old corn and wheat is (big up South America, we owe you so much), that same family member also had a big interest in the concept of ancient grain products, like ancient grain muffins for example! But like the British kind of breakfast muffins, for clarification.

In particular he really latched onto fruit and veg before we did any sort of like GMO fertiliser manipulation etc to it. Tried to grow some of his own too; I think we ended up having some tomatoes like that but the memory is hazy, it was a few years ago now

If you're interested, Forgotten Fruits: A guide to Britain's traditional fruit and vegetables by Christopher Stocks might be up your alley
(internet archive borrowing link, but you can get the book from all good booksellers)

I'm gonna give some of it a read now cause I haven't touched it and you've reminded me that learning is rad and cool and I should do more of it! Cheers

PS: it's so nice to come back here again. this forum's a really lovely refresh from the guff of social media and goodness knows i've been drowning in it a little too much as of late ahaha

[rejectconvenience]

Ah I'm so glad everyone loves this video. I was slightly nervous that people would go PSH this isn't about privacy goodbye (and that did happen a little), but the comments here and on the video have been SO POSITIVE. AH I'm so glad everyone is down for just a feel good video. I am planning on giving breaks between the more intense privacy and technology conversations with side quests like this! I think I need those breaks just as much as everyone else, so it's nice to have an agreement there.