I have three dahlia plants growing in my office right now, I keep catching this one… vibrating like this? I don’t see any bugs, and I have made sure there’s no spiderwebs or strings attached to it. This happens every minute-ish, maybe? But when I try to get closer, it seems to stop. There’s no fan or airflow that should be doing this.
I’m so perplexed, any ideas for what is happening here?
by Kristina-Louise
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Yep plants move! with springlike or bursts of movement. Always nice to see, like catching a shooting star. A natural marvel that some will never see in their lifetime
Just wind
worm or grub moving around under it
plants produce ultrasonic vibrations on their own and it has even been captured on microphone. you can search up plant bioacoustics for more info on it.
sometimes they will be vibrating so much like something is blowing on them but the air is still. its just a thing plants do.
I have a lemon lime maranta on my plant shelf that sits behind me in a window in my office. Sometimes I hear a hiss-like sound that freaks me out and I have to remind myself it’s just the plant’s leaves brushing up on each other while doing its things opening or closing lol.
It’s not moving on its own, at the start of the clip you can see the plant next to it is being moved and they are touching so…
They are alive !
Am I the only one who hears SpongeBob saying
Photosynthesis?
Usually that means a gopher is chowing down to me, but you’re inside lol.
Maybe it’s a toadie living in the soil? I had one living in one of my plants before, scared the daylights out of me when I was pruning my plant then popped out the toad! That or your plant tis very happy 🤷🏼♀️
Edit: just seen you said it’s an indoor plant so the toad is probably not it, lol, darn it I was hoping it was a cute toadie lol!
This is maybe phigmotropism.
Cell pressure and turgor and what have you.
Ohhh you gonna get some good growth from that, seems happy
It’s talking to you..just listen..
Lol looks like it’s trying to get unstuck from the other side of itself lol
prick your finger and give it a drop of your blood.
It’s happy!