Quote Originally Posted by darealbrain
Good or bad, the plants adapt to their enviornment.

now isnt that the same thing i been saiing.
I don't think so.

I think that is taking things a bit out of context.

I could be wrong but respond would have been a better word than adapt.

A plants will respond to its environment to some degree without actually evolving, every thing wants to survive and will cope slightly to do so.

If you were inside and walked outside on a hot summers day and started sweating would you call that evolution? Or, would you call it what it is, responding to your environment?

Responding to ones environment and evolution are two very different things.

To respond is to react positively or favorably, even that being said not all responses are favorable when it comes to horticulture, sometimes plants can not cope and die.


Evolution is the change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms through successive generations. Successiveness is many generations, one right after another, not carbon copies of another.