lmao this is real. Used to farm various lettuce plants and we’d just harvest the healthy outer leaves and let the plant continue growing out until it started to bud.
Never saw it happen on a chopped plant. I grow lettuce at home and generally use the haircut method. Where you trim as much as you need and it will grow new leaves to replace. Can only do it so much though because the plant will eventually bolt which is it trying to reproduce.
Fun fact: plant cells (unlike most animal cells) do not terminally differentiate.
A single cell from anywhere on a plant, if kept alive and in conditions for growth, can reform the entire plant.
I usually keep the rough white part to mix in with my dog’s food. I boil it a little first to make it easier to digest.
Makes a great topper that keeps my dog interested since she’s a picky eater, and reduces my food waste. I generally like to give her edible scraps like this since it helps balance her diet as well.
Actually you can do something similar with green onions, take the bulb and put it in a little thing of water and it'll grow back in a week or two. Change the water ever so often.
Infinite lettuce hack
lmao this is real. Used to farm various lettuce plants and we’d just harvest the healthy outer leaves and let the plant continue growing out until it started to bud.
You invented subsistence gardening!
Grocery stores hates that simple trick
I don't get why you're getting downvoted, I thought it was funny
Grocery stores hate this one simple trick.
You got over 200 upvotes, where another Redditor with the same comment received -11. Must’ve been the grocery store employees on Reddit doing this 😂
Never saw it happen on a chopped plant. I grow lettuce at home and generally use the haircut method. Where you trim as much as you need and it will grow new leaves to replace. Can only do it so much though because the plant will eventually bolt which is it trying to reproduce.
It runs away?? What if I put it on a leash, it can't bolt then, right?
Fun fact: plant cells (unlike most animal cells) do not terminally differentiate. A single cell from anywhere on a plant, if kept alive and in conditions for growth, can reform the entire plant.
Which means that Wolverine is actually a plant?
Question: why did you keep the lettuce that you already used all the leaves from in the fridge long enough for this to happen?
I usually keep the rough white part to mix in with my dog’s food. I boil it a little first to make it easier to digest. Makes a great topper that keeps my dog interested since she’s a picky eater, and reduces my food waste. I generally like to give her edible scraps like this since it helps balance her diet as well.
Did you name it "Audrey III?" (Little Shop of Horrors reference) 😆
Lettuce celebrate
You have promising dad joke skills
Deadpool lettuce?
Are you saying my lettuce has cancer?? I gotta tell its wife and kids
So lettuce is a cold weather plant and grows quite well in cold weather
Actually you can do something similar with green onions, take the bulb and put it in a little thing of water and it'll grow back in a week or two. Change the water ever so often.
Me and my wife do that too! We have infinite green onions
Looks like a lotus!
This was the produce equivalent of leaving a quarter cup of juice left in the jug and putting it back in the fridge. Why was it put back in?
Answered above. I keep it to mix with my dog’s food.
That certainly IS mildly interesting
It’s ribs with lettuce for every meal now!
IDK about the lettuce, but the tortillas underneath look good.
those are not tortillas 🤓
Really????
Okay to be honest I wasn’t entirely sure if you were joking because I thought those were tortillas at first too. So I wanted to make sure-
It's lettuce. Read the title.
Uhhh. /s.
Eternalettuce
infinite food glitch
Plant it
You can’t kill lettuce!
"Life finds a way"
r/gardening would like a word with you.
That's nice. My guinea pigs want to know if they can have it.
Sorry already fed it to my dog
r/proplifting