Natural "Caliche" Cement & the Rare Plants That Love It

[@CarlosGarcia-mi4lh]

Joey, thanks for being yourself. I don't believe I've ever heard you ask for likes, shares or subsrcibes. Yet you've earned an additional 300K viewers since I first watched. A testimony to your aura and passionate love for our community.

[@brassen]

Dude came to Brazil and we didn't need to beg! But seriously, hopes he returns and visit our Caatinga biome.

[@katiekane5247]

Ascend down my sketchy escarpment 😊 Lovely stroll Joey 💕

[@helenpatterson3858]

Lovely way to start the day. A stroll through south Texas desert with my favorite botanist / naturalist.

[@5stringsamurai]

How beautiful! Thanks for sharing

[@troygoss6400]

Never fear, once texas runs out of water, the collective will have no choice but the embrace native plants.

[@justguy-4630]

That's going to be too late for the plants... and people.

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

More likely they'll be attacking each other and fighting amongst themselves in a panicked state, but it's nice to dream!

[@oscarflip8561]

Lawns are less than 15% of the water use in the west. As much as 79% is used for agriculture, almost all of that being to grow crops to feed cattle… still, kill your lawn, grow native.

[@LVSpeedweLL]

What a beautiful place, a complete botany lesson, whilst wandering over geological history, thank you. Yeah a native seed shop would be great for folks who are growing in harmony with their location. If you hear 🐝🐝🐝Run! Caliche cliché… Ipomoea 🌺incredible colour. 🦎 Walking Sticks and Lightening rocks, the wonder of it all💕🙏🏼Happy to see you collecting seeds👍🏼

[@PenntuckytheCrag]

Crazy environment for sure

[@PlatinumRoseEnt]

There is an area in NM that I saw when driving from Tyler TX to Parker CO in which I believe you would like to poke around. Also, my son is part of a team seeking to revitalize the area where a dry lake bed is posing danger to a nearby highly traveled highway. You two should meet. Wishing you more wonderful travels. Rose @>---`--

[@PlatinumRoseEnt]

I hope my messages got to you. You probably have comments controlled like I do on my own channel. Giving out my son's IG in public was not so wise, so thank you.

[@PlatinumRoseEnt]

PS I think you passed by a piece of braided-looking wood with holes it it. I would have brought home. My son told me the name of the plant it comes from, a name that reminds me of a Mexican girl name, but I forget...

[@PlatinumRoseEnt]

My son has that pencil cactus growing in my plant room. Looks like they get a little help from their friends to stand up in nature.

[@krissteel4074]

Its really surprising the depth of plant species out there, considering how awful caliche is when it comes to water and nutrients. Cool to see it all lit up green and flowering though

[@Wigington24]

If it's edible you should mention that please. I love your videos 🌱

[@hestheMaster]

In Starr county,TX there is alot of volcanic ash from a volcanic eruption 27.2 million years ago. It's from a now caldera in the Sierra Madre Occidental range where a huge amount of ash was deposited between the range and the Rio Grande. The wind rained it down to a 60' accumulation along the river way back then. It buried trees everywhere. As time went on erosion exposed petrified trees in places like Roma,TX. At 808 N. Grant St, Roma TX there are a clump of petrified trees right in front of the house! The variety of plant life shown there in Jim Hogg county is amazing Joey. Found it through the small wind farm.

[@stefanostokatlidis4861]

Nice diversity of plants. Nice cacti and the peyote of course is known worldwide. I didn’t know that parasitic plants can thrive in this dry environment. I now wonder if the Nediterranean has caliche substrates. We have a lot of chalky land in Greece but not something like that. Also nice Sceloporus lizards.

[@comadrezoe]

James Stephen Hogg (March 24, 1851 - March 3, 1906) was an American lawyer and statesman, and the 20th Governor of Texas. He was born near Rusk, Texas. The turkey named his daughter Ima.

[@ruthmusser4449]

😅😅😅

[@Dhardy316]

is that a Paronychia Congesta in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

[@fenrirgg]

It's hard to cultivate those species because they need all the sunlight to thrive, but the biggest issue is that they get outcompeted by the invasive grass (African grasses). Basically the invasive grasses make the cultivation of every native a labor intensive venture 😅

[@Jdub6580]

I would love to own a few examples of Calliandra Confertis! I wonder if it would be a decent candidate for being turned into a bonsai? Do they have tap-roots? Looks like a miniature mimosa tree and I love that woody stem!

[@arnorrian1]

All those plants, and almost all animals living there couldn't care less or be affected less by those windmills. If the global temperature goes above 3 degrees C they will all care a lot.

[@AtlasReburdened]

I thought it was 2°C that was supposed to send us into a rapid inescapable death spiral...

[@arnorrian1]

@@AtlasReburdened Rich people will be fine, don't worry.

[@AtlasReburdened]

@@arnorrian1 Are you familiar with the term "non-sequitur"?

[@arnorrian1]

@@AtlasReburdened It's not. The rich are blocking the carbonisation, but will not suffer the consequences. The ecology and the poor will.

[@satorimystic]

How much do birds, insects, mammals, contribute to the spread of particular species of plants in such areas, based on their migration patterns, territorial behavior, etc.? I wonder ... are there patterns to the spread? (Humans ... always lookin' for patterns, eh?)

[@GeertSawek]

I think you answered your own question. As for how much and how... There are myriad plant, animal, climate, geographical and geological considerations. Kind of difficult to put a fine point on it.

[@cherylj7460]

If the nurseries don’t introduce these species to the public, the plants remain unknown to most.

[@zelcadin]

Really like that cal conferta in the beginning! Wish i had some

[@thisis_eli]

plant video lets goooo

[@WastrelWay]

I love these wonderful flowers growing in what is essentially no soil at all and with no watering at all..Our landscaping "experts" could learn a lot. I live in an apartment and I try to grow native plants on the porch. I dig them up .But because I have to put them in pots, they are not happy unless I water them frequently. How deep do the roots of these plants go? Twenty feet at least, I think. My plant captures don't have that room and therefore they aren't happy. I suspect these flowering plants here have some co-evolved fungus or bacteria that enable them to use the water that's trapped in the caliche by breaking down the calcium hydroxide that is there. Edit: "Why is there not a large native plant nursery... centrally located?" I live in Austin, which is pretty central. To sell these plants, you'd have to sell them in pots, and they don't seem to do well in a pot. People don't want to try to raise plants from seed; they want instant results. My solution is to let them volunteer on my porch and see if they survive. Eventually I'll have a "stable" of native plants suitable for people like me in apartments. One difficulty is that pollinators don't often come up to the 7th floor. :-|

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

Plenty of natives do fine in pots, they just have to be large pots. Most natives do fine while awaiting sale in pots, so long as they eventually get planted in the ground

[@cherylj7460]

That little calliandra- will that have white flowers? I’m trying to figure which species is loved by lizards.

[@cherylj7460]

Or the conferta?

[@justguy-4630]

Another day, another CPBBD.

[@i-love-comountains3850]

Lol I read that in the "another victory for da OG" voice😅

[@justguy-4630]

​@@i-love-comountains3850 I mean. I guess you can see it that way. Get a good night's rest.

[@ethanmye-rs]

Mhm caliche, good digging soil.

[@tenns]

why use f/29 aperture when taking your macros ? Is the depth of field a problem even at f/11 ? I'm curious because often at f/29 your optics will eventually act as a camera obscura and be diffraction limited, and often that means worse quality than at a lower f/#, like f/11.

[@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt]

The closer you are to a subject the more depth of field you need, especially when taking macro shots. F/29 works great for me with little diffraction. Trust me, f29 looks exponentially better and more in focus than f11 at this close distance to the subject

[@tenns]

​@@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt huh, I guess I expected 105mm was allowing to be far enough away for the distance not to be a problem! The photo seemed a little soft on focused high resolution detail like the white fuzz on green and yellow top, but it might be the youtube compression! Do you use a ring light on the lens or top mounted classic style one? Is the flash more for contrast or to get a nice and high shutter speed for no motion blur? I've been struggling to get a good setup for macro, especially with the depth of field. But I think I would need a camera with a smaller sensor and lens with shorter focal length for the depth of field to be reduced at a similar megapixel and field of view of the subject. Otherwise I have to setup the whole thing on the ground, and compose shots at different focus to get a nice result. Thank you for the vids, they are a great ressource.

[@CharuzuXVI]

No offense to peyote there are 90% more visually and questionably interesting plants around.

[@canadiangemstones7636]

His audience includes a whole lotta druggies.