Angry trees...

[Drain Bamaged]

Probably don't get an awful lot of people not waking up after spending the night under a tree but it is worth mentioning the same thing happens in ponds, people fill the Goldfish pond up with 'Oxygenating' weed which does just what is described on the box during the day but at night it takes in Oxygen and puts out CO2. which is why quite often especially after a warm night the Goldfish are up gasping around the surface in the morning.

Interestingly (or maybe not) I understand it is why flowers used to be removed from hospital wards at night.

DB.

 

[British Red]

A high velocity apple is not something that you want dropped on you from any height.

Tell that to Newton

 

[dewi]

gone a bit off topic from acorns landing on the head.

Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.

Couldn't be more on topic... killer gas from angry trees!

 

[santaman2000]

..... Lots of plants give off gasses though. .....

Very true. One reason roses can't be kept in the same fridge where apples have been.

 

[Goatboy]

Very true. One reason roses can't be kept in the same fridge where apples have been.

And why bananas should be kept seperate from other fruit. They give off a gas that causes fruit to ripen prematurely. So saying that gas is sometimes used to speed up ripening on previously stored fruit.
Didn't know about apples and roses though Santaman, what's the interaction there then, is it similar?

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[spandit]

At least the trees held up themselves... had a narrow escape with a birch tree a few years ago. Woke up with the tarp considerably nearer to my face than I remembered. Tree was about 8" across, not tiny.

 

[John Fenna]

I love the sound that a tightly strung tarp makes when a large pinecone falls on it ... well at least it is a better sound than I would make if the cone hit me!

 

[Macaroon]

And why bananas should be kept seperate from other fruit. They give off a gas that causes fruit to ripen prematurely. So saying that gas is sometimes used to speed up ripening on previously stored fruit.
Didn't know about apples and roses though Santaman, what's the interaction there then, is it similar?

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Ethylene is the gas from bananas, and can often be your friend when you want to speed up ripening or for bletting the likes of medlars.

 

[Goatboy]

Ethylene is the gas from bananas, and can often be your friend when you want to speed up ripening or for bletting the likes of medlars.

That's the name of the stuff, was eluding me. Why you can buy fancy banana hangers so that the gas disapates and stops the fruit going off so quickly. But yes pop fruit you want to ripen quicker in a paper bag with some bananas and the gas collects and ripens the fruit quicker.

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[Miyagi]

What an informative thread!

Never knew half of what I've read here.

I do love the smell of a ripening spotted banana I must admit.

My favourite hammock spot on the shore has me serenaded by owls as they whit and whoo to each other at night, and occasionally the odd deer will stampede through camp in a panic. I take exception to the squirrels though, as they have a tendency to chak chak chatter at me and throw things at the tarp.

Liam

 

[santaman2000]

And why bananas should be kept seperate from other fruit. They give off a gas that causes fruit to ripen prematurely. So saying that gas is sometimes used to speed up ripening on previously stored fruit.
Didn't know about apples and roses though Santaman, what's the interaction there then, is it similar?

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I'd forgotten about bananas! Regarding your question about apples and roses though, the gas given off by the apples (I don't know the name) kills roses. Possibly by speeding the aging process (ripening) but I really don't know. I only have the small bit of info from the florists where I've bought roses before.

 

[Goatboy]

What an informative thread!

Never knew half of what I've read here.

I do love the smell of a ripening spotted banana I must admit.

My favourite hammock spot on the shore has me serenaded by owls as they whit and whoo to each other at night, and occasionally the odd deer will stampede through camp in a panic. I take exception to the squirrels though, as they have a tendency to chak chak chatter at me and throw things at the tarp.

Liam

Talking of emissions from things you know that the brown spots on bananas emit radon which is detectable with a geiger counter. To do with the potassium salts if I remember. Wouldn't worry about it though, all pretty low level.

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[dewi]

Talking of emissions from things you know that the brown spots on bananas emit radon which is detectable with a geiger counter. To do with the potassium salts if I remember. Wouldn't worry about it though, all pretty low level.

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Fruit is weird... I think it was Mythbusters that I saw where they generated electricity from lemons... they filled a load of pots with the juice from the lemons and linked a few of the pots together, got a decent voltage iirc.

 

[Goatboy]

Fruit is weird... I think it was Mythbusters that I saw where they generated electricity from lemons... they filled a load of pots with the juice from the lemons and linked a few of the pots together, got a decent voltage iirc.

Aye they've got evidence of acids, some from citrus fruits being used to store charge in clay jars and being used to plate metals (gold plating) back in the BC era. Shocking stuff ehh!

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[TarHeelBrit]

I've never had pine cones fall on me but the woods where I would camp had many Horse Chestnut trees there. I quickly learned the first thing was to get the tarp up in self defence. Those buggers hurt when they hit you on the head.

 

[forrestdweller]

Aye they've got evidence of acids, some from citrus fruits being used to store charge in clay jars and being used to plate metals (gold plating) back in the BC era. Shocking stuff ehh!

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sorry if i go - i hope the link works... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery

 

[dwardo]

I've never had pine cones fall on me but the woods where I would camp had many Horse Chestnut trees there. I quickly learned the first thing was to get the tarp up in self defence. Those buggers hurt when they hit you on the head.

Often get a sweet chestnuts few in the heed when collecting them. They all seem fall on mass within a week or two each year. A hat definitely helps.

 

[Robson Valley]

There are pine cones and then there are Coulter pine cones (Pinus coulteri).
I've handled those cones, they are a sight to behold.

Here at 53N, nobody hunts on windy days in the forest places with lots of deciduous trees.
All too easy to be injured, or worse, by falling branches.
There's so much wind noise, you will never hear it coming.

Ripening fruit of just about any sort gives off ethylene gas.
You can use this to promote ripening as well.
Try a banana in a plastic bag with some green tomatoes.