I don't know why I decided to watch this, but I'm learning a lot and this lecturer is great and keeps my interest!

My new favorite educator on KZfaq! I graduated college a few months ago with a psych degree and yet here I am suddenly passionate about gardening. I type this as my indoor plant with three brown, wilted leaves stares down at me with contempt. P.S. if you have ADHD or any trouble focusing on certain subjects for long periods of time, I recommend watching at 1.5x speed :)

Here is my take away: 1. Diversity: Plant kingdom is diverse and there are diverse responses to stimuli between plant varieties 2. Leaves: leaves absorb sunlight, produce food and perform transpiration 3. Buds: At the base of every leaf there is a bud 4. Balance: energy balance must be maintained between the roots and stems 5. Growth: there are 4 places of growth: terminal, lateral, root tips and cambium 6. Reproduction: it is top priority 7. Dwarfing: pruning is a way to dwarf 8. Control: bud growth is controlled by hormones/chemicals

This lecture is so fascinating. How no one laughs at his jokes I don’t know I had a decent giggle

What an amazing class! This is the kind of teaching I have been looking for. I love how the scientific principles are made concrete through the anecdotes and application to plant puzzles. They really helped me understand the science. Thank you!

My day off from work and I found this gem. Thank you!!!

I love this class. Rick is such a confident and competent teacher. His calm and soothing voice is easy to listen to. Thank you so much! Appreciated.

Excellent training. I am now in a Master Gardeners Class in Hagerstown, Maryland and this was a very good class.

Thank you so much for lecture. This professor deals great laymen terms!!! At least for me.

A thousand thanks! That was s-o-o-o o good. I now consider myself seriously enlightened. That lecture was really comprehensive, and i will never look at the garden in quite the same way again...made all the intensive studying of botany I have doing all make good practical sense in one moment. Keep those videos coming.

This was an amazing learning experience for me. I also think it's funny that half the time on the left table that lady had to keep all those plants there on her desk space. Great vid!

Fantastic review! Well worth the time spent in following the lecture..

This man might be the Manly P. Hall of botany. Maximum

I missed sign up by one day in Maricopa County. I have my own nursery and volunteer with the elderly in the wv to help provide quality service to those with fixed budgets. Thank you for giving me a formal resource so I can continue my education, I hate the way the classes are so limited in this county.

Currently doing a horticulture course and the notes are too much to take in... Thanku for a wonderful lecture, learnt way more in this vid than i ever would in particular course!!

This is a super beautiful lesson, I'm super happy learning about this, you're a super amazing teacher!!!!! :D

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world! I learned so much from this!

Great lecture. Shared with the gardening world. A must watch for all plant people.

Fantastic lecture! I particularly love the case studies the presenter seeds here and there to get to the root of the issue and really plant the idea. Really helps stem the boredom and leafs you guessing!

Great, so much to learn!

This is a great lecture so far!

This has been really helpful. I’ve been trying to get into horticulture and botany but have found it quite difficult to find a starting point. This has definitely set me in the right direction

Thank u so much for such a fantastic lecture. I could learn a lot.

I agree about sick plants. It's boring when everything is growing fine.

Awesome! Thank you so much! 🎩

Amazing. Fantastic.

A very pleasant learning experience and simple introduction to botany and the science of it. Thank you

this was fantastic and i learned so much. thank you

Just started watching, looking for plant identification for ferns. There are so many!

A great teacher!

This is great - thank you sir!!

I'm a senior accounting student who now regrets my major but with no schools anywhere near me offering botany, I'm going to learn some basics and then maybe in the future I can go for a bachelors...

great talk thanks!

What a good lecture!

Thank you!

I really enjoyed this lesson thanks 🙂

Excellent lecture!

thank you for this 💝

I realize this is an older video but I have a question regarding transplanting houseplants. I am always telling people to not break up the root ball when they transplant. I try very hard not to damage the root ball when transplanting. It sounds like you agree with me?

What a great speaker. Terrible audio, but great speaker!

When there is plenty of water they shrink? About stomata?

Somehow I missed the 2hr marker for the time and thought this was gonna be one of those goofy 8 quick tip kinda vids. That said, when you really wanna learn something its gonna take more than 2 hrs, so this is a good start.

Yesssss I found itttt

So much to learn:flora,fauna,Humankind,Elements,visible and invisible,so much I go crazy. All God'sCreatures. The Solar System. The Multiverses.... And iam just an Insignificant speck in the whole of this Complex. All in One One in All.

Do we have a link to the presentation 😭 text is so small

Just your average weed grower here to learn some more;)

I'm just 5 and this is so Intriguing

Can you turn up the volume

Nobody: Me copying down everything on the slides because I want to be a botanist even though I’m literally just 11:👁👄👁

Ah mono, we meet again.

I went to the gym.

no i did not get the string trimmer

The part where he was talking about how he figured out what was wrong with the ash trees my mind was blown. I was sitting in my chair being like "OMG What the HECK is killing the TREES????" and it turned out to be a string trimmer. I was blown away.

I really want to be able to go to college, but its very expensive, I dont think im smart enough, and I dont want to regret spending thousands on a major I dont want

GRATE !

Not a single "master gardener" could tell me most of what I learned by 11th grade biology

Wait did he imply that fungi are plants????

Right speaker not necessary.

Wish you had an organic or chemical free class... synthetic fertilizers and pesticides are why we have so many illnesses and pests.

why all botany are making wrong

no one likes gymnosperms

This presentation is missing - how to apply the 8 rules. It would be much more beneficial by first stating the rules then how to apply them to your plants.

The problem is sir I think you are uneducated about mycorrhizal fungi....you didn’t inoculate those Ash’s properly.

Whole vid could have been summarised in 10min

did this mans really just say fungi are part of the plant kingdom, why tf any university paying him