What Makes This Plant Hair So Deadly?
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- You may be familiar with plants that have hair, like fuzzy peaches. But these plant take their 'dos to the next level, because their hairs are deadly.
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Nice touch to have a bald presenter for an episode on killer hair😂❤
❤😂❤ 👍
Dead
Best observation and comment!!
I was also impressed with his "sick mullet" reference
With that beard. Something tells me if he took off his clothes you'd find enough hair to start an 80s rock band.
Well its not like I was expecting the hard spikey ones to gracefully pass the caterpillars in a gentle manner.
Lmao
the caterpillers literally bit off more than they can chew
Curly Hank: "Nah, let's have Reid do this one."
I love that Hank basically evolved like a Pokemon.
Sliver leaf nightshade trichomes are brutal. Those plants deserve their own video. They’ve got an unfair amount of natural defenses.
Plus sounds like an awesome character name from some fantasy novel. ^_^
I hate them so
I look at trichomes on my marijuana plants to determine readiness! Weed thats ready to harvest has opaque or amber colored trichromes while weed that needs more time has clear trichomes. Also, just about all of the stuff you want from weed grows in those trichomes, so some people go out of their way to collect JUST trichomes because theyre so potent.
They look pretty cool too, most look like little mushrooms all over the bud and some just look like hooks.
Honestly its all pretty amazing stuff. A marijuana bud exist solely for reproduction and when you grow it you get a strong idea of whats what, its a nice reminder that weed doesnt exist just as a drug, its a living thing just going through the motions of life.
@@lexruptor marijuana is a plant that contains a bunch of drugs. Look up the definition of a drug, marijuana developes MANY compounds we would consider as drugs. Coffee is a drug too.
Its a drug and it can be a very potent one, no need for any mental gynastics and word play to compare it to sage and thyme when it is like non of those things.
@@candledish Whatever, just quit bogarting the joint.
@lexruptor 🤣🤣 your mom was drinking a lot of alcohol when she had you huh.
@candledish I find ignorant twats like them to be very entertaining
@@jay-5061 chill out
As someone who works in a plant genetics lab, I regularly use articles published by Rice 😊
Same. The karma for the mean joke about its name is all the comments referencing the presenter's baldness though lol
@@LouieAblett how was it mean????
Giving the bald host this episode feels deliberate
I imagine there's plenty of people familiar with trichomes in the Cannabaceae family.
:p
Yeeeesssss
Didnt speak about globular trichomes . The ones we all love on cannabis
The most killer trichomes I've ever brushed up against happened to belong to a small Gympie-Gympie tree. I'd recommend staying well clear, as the sting can embrace you for months! 🌳💉☠️🔥⚡
Good Lord, and you’re still alive? That’s awful! (Getting snagged by a Gympie tree, not that you’re alive. ) How the heck did you survive?
@@GrumpyOldFart2 This was the first time I'd come across a Small Leaf Gympie Stinger (Gympie Gympie) and I found it via the back of my thumb. Even though I simply brushed lightly against it, it stung quite intensely for a week or two, even more so when wet.
The sting dialled down slowly, until around the 3 month point only a slight tingle was apparent when wet.
If I had known at the time, I would have used delapilaty wax to remove the stinging hairs.
All in all it was a curious experience of intensity and the unknown, which could have very easily been, much worse!
@@GrumpyOldFart2Gympie gympie doesn’t kill people. It just hurts so bad some people wish they were dead.
@@evilsharkey8954yeah. Apparently some people just end themselves from the pain
@@amplifiedlight Even sticky tape will get at least most of the needles out, and is a lot easier to carry with you, if you really feel the need to wander the QLD bush.
Talking about thricomes, plants in the genus tillandsia (aka air plants, they're also houseplants) use them to absorb water and nutrient from the air.
So they can live on tree branches or rocks (or even power lines sometimes bcs why not) without absorbing water from the soil with roots
That's really cool!! So Spanish moss has that kind of trichome too? No wonder it feels the teeniest bit fuzzy even tho it doesn't look like it should.
We have Tinispora crispa at home and those things just cover everything even without access to soil and water. Like we trimmed them down but someone left a piece of the vine on the roof. Well it grew and climbed the power line and several trees nearby, all while the "root" rests on a metal roof.
The hooked trichomes are natures way of saying "if you try to take me down, I'm taking you w/ me" and I love it... That's a very metal piece of nature. 🤘😈🖤 😂
Trichomes are my best friend
Lol, yes. Yes, they are.
They keep me calm
They help me sleep ☮
Dooooood
@@PushyPawn Try yoga nidra
With the trigger hairs on the Venus flytrap count for this as well?
People in the Balkans have used bean plant stems and leafs to kill bed bugs.
Pretty brutal to get this guy to talk about hair.
Mmm 😋 love trichomes, especially on cannabis plants 😮
I hear killer hare and think Monty Python.
I'm glad I'm not the only one
I killer hare does sound scary. A hare is like a bunny
Whut? Behind the rabbit?
There is only one trichome I care about. 😜
I definitely don't picture a mullet what I think of killer hair.
Seeds exposed to cold 🥶 actually do develop stronger shells and anti freeze. But reduce growth
That is a fascinating fact that came at the cost of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of Soviet lives. 😢
i'm not criticizing You, the more You know !:-) 😊
i love the name of Your channel!!! !:-)
The seeds also need to be very carefully monitered and kept at a very excating tempurature and moisture level, and kept there for a long time.
Overall the results are underwelming especially when compared to just breeding
These defensive trichomes sound like they work similarly to the hyphae of nematophagous fungi, which can lasso or impale nematode worms. Wine cap and oyster mushrooms are examples of species that do this, and I'm growing both in my garden.
Those fungi then invade the nematodes with their hyphae, eating them from the inside. The plants don’t do that, at least.
You should run into a grandfather cholla one day. Just a touch on your clothing will make a piece break off. It’s called Mexican jumping cactus but it really doesn’t jump.
When I hear killer hair, it makes me think of the Rabbit of Caerbannog, the killer hare from Monty Python.
That litttle kid splattering through that puddle was me (well, just like me) about 61 years ago!
Thanks for all your great advice. I really enjoy watching your videos, they provide a lot of knowledge and are very helpful on a daily basis in choosing food when shopping, etc. Thank you ❤✨
Thanks for the video! Plants are pretty heckin' rad!
Of course I think of hair that actually kills, I'm a JoJo Enjoyer
I'm sure I heard about trichomes in college, but I can't remember where from.
Late night "study" sessions - no doubt.
But it was so long ago... I'm sure the memories are uhh... hazy.
yes, exactly@@justinklenk
This all makes sense, bit of a stoner and i grow the devils oregano, a lot of the benefits talked about in this video i feel like you can see in the plants with how well they can survive and adapt to even extreme environments and climates
Great presentation hope to see more of him
So what plants can I have in my yard that will pull the guts from all the mosquitoes and other pests in my yard?
The last relationship is mind-blowing.
Getting your ovipositor torn off while trying to lay eggs sounds pretty brutal.
The tomatoe looks more punk than metal though
Delightfully whimsical video
Getting ReRe to present this one just feels unnecessarily mean spirited
With that entrance you have never watched the Goodies.
When I hear killer hair, I think of Jimmy Carters attack by a killer hare.
I’m pretty sure Venus flytraps also use calcium released due to mechanical stimulus; they use it to time the duration between trigger hairs being stimulated to determine whether or not to close.
My favorite trichomes are definitely the ones used to make hash and kief. 👍😄
Many years ago, I worked on a research project studying the effects of breeding "fuzzy" wheat to help repel cereal leaf beetles. Seems they didn't like laying their eggs on the fuzzy wheat.
My medicine has a lot of trichomes lol
When I was a kid, my grandma would talk about certain people in her past, and I can remember her saying of one man she used to know, "He didn't yell, but...his voice just carried." I had no idea what that meant: "his voice carried." Until I started watching videos with this dude. I know EXACTLY what she means now, lol. He seems an absolutely lovely person, but I always have to turn the volume WAY down when he's hosting. Great videos, though. Keep up the good work. :)
I wonder if at some point we'll be able to "communicate" with plants in one way or another.
Plants don't have brains or emotions. However, the animals people tend to relish eating have brains, emotions, a social life, and they care for their babies. One person's beloved pet species is another person's meal. But "Animal lovers" can usually shut off empathy for animals when they buy or eat food. On the other hand, millions of people who don't eat animals apparently are all deficient in protein or something, you know, the human-digestible protein that animals eat from plants to eventually become protein rich meat. But vegans have to supplement B12, just like where all the farm animals get their B12 from - supplements.
So that’s why I saw images of punctures in my body in my dreams.
Thank you.
When I hear the phrase, "Killer hare," I picture Monty Python!
"Even if they escape, they're scarred for life".
On the bright side, that's only a few weeks.
I promise you that no one thinks of a mullet when they hear "killer hair"
Oh, it's the astronomers' definition of metal. Eyeroll!
Thanks
Imagine the silence in the SciShow team room when they present the script with that killer hair intro...and then looked at each other and asked who's gonna do this one....
Trichomes are very important on my favourite plant.
Even some of the escapees succumb later on because their exoskeletons have been breached and they become dehydrated.
My favorite trichome glues bugs mouths shut but creates euphoria for us 😂
Dang I hoped you would cover the Gympie-Gympie plant in Australia
I can't help myself.
What was it like in the office when they decided to have you do the video on "killer hair"?😂
Plants be like “pweeaz protecc im so delicate 🥺” and then actively trap their predators’ mouths or tear them from inside out.
0:01 I think of poisonous caterpillers (:
"Caterpillars preferred to avoid diets filled with spikes" same.
I'm surprised you didn't get to the Australian Gympie Gympie plant, also known as the su1c1de plant. That thing is a literal killer.
So it's like the caterpillars were eating mini Cap'n Crunch?
I don't think the words cool and mullet should be in the same sentence.
I love you guys! It's not very cool with me when you all say stuff like, "yes, that's a journal". You are literally referencing it. Please help us to Appreciate your references. There are enough haters around to try and DEpreciate them! ❤
I came here to say this too. What more could you want from a journal that is presumably about Rice?! It is clear and to the point. We live in a world where some of the biggest journals are called 'Cell' and 'Nature', so it seems hypocritical to try making a cheap joke about a smaller, more obscure journal that follows in the same vein of nomenclature, especially, as was said above, when you are referencing it.
The hair planted immune I see.
On the horsenettle are those thorns big enough to see with the naked eyes?
When I think of killer hair, I think of Love Deluxe.
Attack of the killer tomatoes
So... cannabis also has trichomes 😅
Trichomes are crazy and so cool! I'm surprised you didn't mention stinging nettle, which has trichomes like hypodermic needles and inject histamines into anyone that dares touch them! I did a video on that last year. Fascinating plant! Well, most plants are fascinating in their own ways, but plants that actively fight back are extra awesome.
"Teeny tiny hares." huh? I wanna see the Chuck Jones version of this.
Are cactus spikes trichomes?
I love trichomes! can get a jar of them for about 20 bucks :D
Hi Reid!
Who knew science could be so... hairy?
Well trichomes and terps are the best thing to happen to me. Smoking weed eith these in certain combinations it helps immensely in so many ways medicallly. You’d be like WOW
Personally I’m feeling the “killer hair” myself rn..
Bumped into a Scottish Thistle 😭😭😭 at least it wasn’t Gympie Gympie
That moment when I realize I've been saying trichrome instead of trichome my entire adult life 🤦♂️
I'm so high, I even touch the sky Above the falling rain I feel so good in my neighborhood, so Here I come again Got to have thrichomes now
Could you make a video on why bunny rabbits tattooed on a bald head, look like hares?
"Killer Hair" , Reid
you left out the most amazing fly hairs.Those in the Venus flytrap. Touch one, and nothing happens. Touch two in rapid succession, and it snaps close rather fast and traps the insect that trickered ut.
Plants! 🤘🤘🤘
Killer hair sound like a rad name for a weed strain 😂
Some mammals do have killer hair though. Porcupine quills can kill if not removed, by causing infections or working their way deeper and deeper in a body until they reach vital organs. They are not much of a threat to humans, because we have thumbs and can pluck them out, but other animals can't so easily rid themselves of them.
Insects falling for these leaves, hook, spine & sphincter 🤭
Love the pineapple shirt
The rain one, what it evolved to gain immunity against bacterias from wen animals pee on them
0:00 no, i was thinking more like Barbariccia, tbh.
I think of murderous rabbits when i hear "killer hare"
Not one mention of the Gympie-Gympie plant... now those are killer trichomes.
"Killer hare"
obviously that's the bunny rabbit from Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail.
That is why you should spread some drops on leaves when watering your plants.
You missed the thirty year expiration date on hair jokes by. that. much.
I hoped you asked to cover this one, rather than the production going "who should we have present our story on plant hairs? I know, the bald guy!"
As I've gotten further along in parenting, the mantra of "every family does what works for them" has become so important, especially when explaining other families to my children. Why do different families have different numbers of children? Every family does what works for them. Why do some families go to religious services, and others don't? Every family does what works for them. These families seem to be figuring that out. Also, every child needs different parenting- I can't believe that one mom with the grown kids hasn't figured that out. Her youngest needs different things, and figured out how to get what he needs. It sounds like he's turning out great, he just needed a little more help.
I was expecting gympie gympie to make an appearance. Now those are some nasty trichomes
Those poor caterpillars!
trichomes also useful for repelling bed bugs
My 16 year old son said the first thing he thought of was the Rabbit from Monty Python and the holy grail 😂. I'm so proud 🥲