Plants as network medium?

[Andrew]

Stay away from the weed dude... :)

>The plant communication test that I recall (from a
>long time ago) was a one-way system.  The plant
>yielded detectable (and consistent) changes when
>pain was inflicted on its owner.
>
>As I recall, distance between the plant and its
>owner as not a measurable factor.  The amount of
>pain inflicted might have been.
>
>Of course this is all from old non-error-correcting
>memory...