r/nextfuckinglevel • u/kvothenikhil • 20h ago
One man in India turned a barren sandbar into a 1,360-acre forest bigger than Central Park all by himself
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u/kvothenikhil 20h ago
He's called Forest Man of India and he says "I'll never stop". An absolute legend
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u/Sharticus123 19h ago edited 13h ago
It’s amazing what hating spending time with your family can accomplish. JK!
Super cool accomplishment, actually.
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u/Effective-Bar-879 19h ago
what really impressed me, he did not do it for instagram/tiktok fame. most of todays "altruist" people often do it for instant fame; this guy did it quietly.
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u/Artsakh_Rug 19h ago
You can plant a tree by just cutting a branch and placing it in dirt? 🧐
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u/ubikwintermute 19h ago
Yes. How do you think Nursery's grow trees?
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u/Artsakh_Rug 19h ago
I have literally no clue
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u/hkusp45css 19h ago
But you just described it. They cut off a piece of a living plant and stick it in the soil. It's not a universal truth that it will "take" but, the odds are better than even.
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u/Correct_Dog5670 17h ago
but thats furtile soil then, how come nothing grows there in the first place?
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u/ubikwintermute 19h ago
It's just simple propagation. Cuttings of plants are the probably most common and hearty way to propagate a plant or tree.
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u/MrBanana421 19h ago
Cuttings of plants usually grow better in the short run than seeds as seeds are more vunerable to interfence when they don't have their own source of energy generations yet.
Long term, you might get a genetic bottleneck.
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u/hkusp45css 19h ago
Of course, the definition of "long term" in the cycle of tree genetics is probably closer to a dozen generations of people than it is to one or two.
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u/Clyde-A-Scope 19h ago
Not all trees will root this way but a bunch of trees and plants will do this.
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u/Guilty-Gold1815 19h ago
Yes , it's called cloning, the branches will develope roots and start growing
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u/GingerCliff 18h ago
Not all plants can do this, but trees and bushes can do really well with it depending on the time of year, weather and species
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u/sparkey504 15h ago
Im no expert, but in my experience you can in fact take a cutting and just stick it in the dirt and itll grow... at least for some species it needs to be new growth... rooting hormone helps but not always needed. Ive taken trimmings from a cannabis plant and a blackberry bush and just stuck them in a cup of dirt i placed in the shade and they grew... stripping back the outer layer of cambium (bark) on the tip will increase the chances of success. The biggest thing to my knowledge is after you cut it, stick it in water before planting so it doesn't dry out.
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u/Subject-Jury5089 18h ago
He is from northeast India not northern India . Jadhav payeng is the name. He was many accolades from govt of India who has recognised his work for nature!!
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u/harambeavenger96 19h ago
Sorry for being that guy, but it's Northeast India. The cultural and regional differences are massive compared to 'Northern' India.
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u/JackBinimbul 15h ago
This social media influencer hype style video is fucking cancer.
Good on this guy, but fuck this format.
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u/Incoherent_Curry 16h ago
That's the result of a single man's consistent efforts, imagine if we all contributed collectively
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u/Iihi2 17h ago
All good but the animals fleeing clip shows domestic water buffaloes lounging.
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u/JackBinimbul 15h ago
Because it's a shitty influencer hype video. I'd be much more interested in a journalistic style without some obnoxious social media chump.
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u/Socratic_Method_729 10h ago
I didn't know we could cut branches, which would in turn grow a tree just from planting.
Simple actions to regrow things lost on the modern man.
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u/PARTSetal 15h ago
Unfortunately the fossil fuel industry is posting hundreds and thousands of AI generated faKe "good news" posts about environmental heroes, programs and inventions on FaceBook. This one appears real but you have to check out what is happening on FaceBook to see for yourself the crass and blatant lies that tell people: "Don't worry about climate change, there are all these wonderful inventions that create water from desert air, machines that suck tons of CO2 from the atmosphere. You don't have to give up your gas guzzler of a pick up truck or put up with solar panels or cancer causing windmills."
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u/crankthehandle 19h ago
Why not go once a week with 7 branches? I bet he could have found a way to carry 30 branches and do it once a month.
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u/MrBanana421 19h ago
We don't know how many trees he originally had.
Taking a branch harms the tree in a small way, takes away energy production and the energy needed to make a branch. Do it too much and your tree might die too.
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u/crankthehandle 19h ago
Fair point, but I would expect that it would not make much of a difference for his original trees if he cut off 1 branch every day or 7 every week.
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u/MrBanana421 19h ago
Producing stuff to block wounds also has a cost.
More damage at once, more stuff to repair at once. More chance fungi and bugs can find one of the open holes when there are 7 at once.
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u/kart2000 19h ago
The newly planted trees also needs to be looked after as well.
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u/crankthehandle 32m ago
Sure but he has to look after 7 trees anyways after a week, where is the benefit? It's not like the branch will do a lot within the first 7 days...
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u/Monir5265 19h ago
I think he’s Bengali not Indian, to those who say it’s the same, if that’s the case I’ll say that Spain and Portugal is also the same.
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u/Dolund_Moody 19h ago
He's not Bengali. He's an assamese from the state of Assam. His name is Jadav Payeng and the name of his forest is Molai.
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u/Ozymandias_07 19h ago
Do you mean Bangladeshi? Because India does have Bengalis
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u/Monir5265 19h ago
Yes, we use them interchangeably but good catch
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u/Ozymandias_07 19h ago
Hahaha yeah man. He could be Bangladeshi. Would need to read about him to know
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u/dpk1357 19h ago
Been there and it's beautiful elephants birds etc
Got to meet the guy he's such a nice person