The Gardener’s Secret 🌿

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[music] >> In 1934, >> [music] >> the botanist Kenneth Thimann at the California Institute of Technology discovered one of the strangest secrets of the plant world. He was studying a hormone called auxin and found that the main branch at the top of the plant produces it in large quantities. And then he made a startling discovery. This hormone does not stimulate [music] growth, it suppresses it. The auxin that flows from the top downward prevents the side buds from growing. The plant deliberately [music] keeps all the side branches dormant. As long as the top is in control, no side [music] branch awakens. All the energy goes in one direction, upward, and here [music] came the discovery that changed gardening forever. The moment you prune the top, cutting the main branch, the concentration of auxin drops and all the side buds that were dormant suddenly awaken at once. The plant bursts into growth [music] in all directions. What was dormant burst into life. Every professional gardener knows this [music] secret. If you want the plant to

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1. 0:01[music] >> In 1934, >> [music] >> the botanist Kenneth Thimann at the California Institute of…
2. 0:32the side branches dormant. As long as the top is in control, no side [music] branch…
3. 1:02thicken, fill out, and bloom, you actually need to prune the top. To cut the part…
4. 1:33it's the end, that we've lost the [music] only thing, that we have nowhere else to…
5. 2:04dormant branches we didn't even know we had. And in Tractate Berakhot, it is written, "Everything…
6. 2:34We'll remember Thiman. We'll remember the dormant buds. When the head is pruned, [music] growth does…

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