Your Feedback Important, Dick.

Honestly, I really enjoyed the video despite, and perhaps even because of, how lost you were when it came to identifying the plants. The dense mix of plants in this unique landscape was really beautiful so I'm glad you decided to share it anyway. Let's face it, you could probably make a video of you buttering some toast or taking a shit and people on youtube would eat it up and ask for seconds.

I say release it. Ya don't have to be able to name everything. Commenters on the yt may ID some, you may develop a bit more support, and at the very least, it'll be a record of what's there right now. Who knows - if increased clearance continues apace, the conditions for low cloud might vanish. My two cents. Yours, Dick

G00mbahC01umbu5

I didn't know stinging nettles had a family ! The stores here now have nettle tea instead of stinging nettle tea. I wonder why ? My fern never develops any spores. Is it sterile or just lonely ?

Just a sidenote... Not to hog up the whole comment section... In another video you mentioned Martin Grantham... So I wonder if you ever attended any of the East Bay Hortisexuals events? If so it is possible we have met at some point... You do look familiar to me... Just curious........

You feed my brain with an overwhelming barrage of intriguing, captivating, wonderous information and marvelous experiences the least I can do is return the favor... I think you are needlessly second guessing yourself! Your concerns about about your performance are unnecessary! The important elements are all there... Your unique voice, point of view, presentation, and all of the plants I have never seen or even heard of! By now I have seen nearly all of your videos and I find them all very enriching!!! I doubt most of your fans and admirers expect you to know every particular plant that you encounter... I know I sure don't! Besides you always add the names during post-production... I don't see a problem here... You should know by now how much you are loved and appreciated by those who follow you!!! I myself am infatuated with you and secretly fantasize about you being my husband and life companion (not to creep you out but I know that is impossible, since for starters I am pretty sure you are not gay, and likely would not feel the same way) but I can have my dreams! Don't go changing a thing, I love you just the way you are!!! I tell anyone who will listen about your channel and I think some actually come on board... Just keep up the great work and don't doubt yourself! Your secret admirer 🌵🌴🌲🌿🌱🌼🌻💚🥰

Need a ballcuzzi? Yeah, you do, it involves warm milk and bubbles. I'm horrified at the collection I found for free already; maybe you don't know the damage a little education can cause. The fact the AI led me here is suspicious, like a 3 hour course in bomb making, just enough to blow off an arm or two. Last night an Atacama video made me barf (140 million years unchanged, Ralph). You have no idea. You're all fucked up. You should be locked up for forcing this on the world. It's gotta be a joke, if not then what's going on with your face?

I enjoy your content, whether you can name what you're looking at or not. Half the fun of Botanising is seeing plants you don't know the names of and going home and researching what they are. Do you use keys at all?

April Hughes

Everything is ok. Not boring at all.

Actually this was a fantastic video. Yes, nice to hear the local sounds. Birds, frogs, etc. It was very enjoyable when you were walking through the dense vegetation (I didn’t see a trail) and it was quiet but we could just hear your footsteps and birds and the camera was turning. It made me feel like I was there.

Dominique Frost

Oh yea. Gorgeous.

Gotta post it you beautiful bastard! Eye candy, money shots, so nice

Colette Haskell

Post it you glorious bastard. And take better care of yourself.

That bird did sound like a creeky merry go round. It was kinda soothing

Good video, i think the cool thing is that it represents what we all feel when we discover new shit. That moment when you realize that theres a lot of new dungeons to get into (and you know nothing at all), keeps me alive. Post it!

Look dude, I just like to see you enjoying yourself in new environments and seeing cool plants, especially in weird remote places where I can't go. I'm now interested in plants and geology somehow, thanks to you. I think you should just do what you want. If I happen to learn something, that's nice, too.

Jen Miller

I had the exact situation where I suddenly didn't know hardly anything about what all these plants growing on top of plants were when I moved from Indiana to Florida. As far as the plants go, it was like being on a different planet. Not even the weeds are the same. And yeah, the epiphytes all over everything, and nature just bursting from every little foothold it can get is overwhelming. You can spend half a day on a 20 foot square of forest in tropical areas, and still won't run out of species to see and identify. It's something not a lot of people in the US really understand, since most of us live in more temperate regions. I think it's great that you captured that overwhelmingly biodiverse essence of the tropics. It deserves to be shared.

Shawn Meyer

As usual, informative and honest. Post it. or don't. I don't GAF. GFY bye

F. De Mascio

It’s good, post it. (Short version) Long version: It is a mark of wisdom to able to quickly discern when u are out of your depth with any situation. But, u can’t be expected to know all of such a diverse and densely populated area of a forest that you have never been to or grew up around. It’s ok, also it seems that You did a good job in post production labeling them. Also, still entertaining and overall a great addition to the catalog of videos

Post it. That is some amazing footage. You almost sound a little anxious, like there is so much still to see and you are running out of time. We feel you. Who knows what it will look like when you get back. Get some rest bonehead. We gotta get you back there though.

Thank you for the support 🙏

Anthony J Malone

I've donated a couple of burritos to Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't and would definitely like to be fed back, yes.

Post it you bastard

Eric Filson

I'd say, post it. I like the pace. I like the eye candy. I never get tired of green. Although, as I get older, I'm starting to like blue, 'cause I'm "looking at the Big Sky." Noticed that the soils appear to be predominantly clay. Reminded me of tropical botany class and the lesson on the futility of slash and burn . That is, once the forest litter has been consumed by the slash and burn crops, and washed away by the rain, the clay remains, with little capacity to sustain a diverse community of plant life, other than weedy colonizers. But, not to end on a sorrowful note, loved all the orchids, ferns, and especially the epiphytic bryophytes. Too cool. Life is cool. Plants rule.

I liked it! I like, especially, the quiet visuals of the landscape. I know I'll never get to see these places but having spent much of my life on the back of a horse the quiet vistas hold huge appeal for me. Being one of the older folk who paid good tuition money to learn the old taxonomy the new one is gradually entrenching itself via your colorful descriptions. You give a sense of companionship through this pandemic and switching things out adds variety. You can get off on the human tumor next time. You won't be able to help it you know?

Kyddyl

Also, I liked that you stopped to share the bird noises with us too.

You covered a lot of ground in the DR and it's awesome that you documented so much. Even if people aren't immediately impressed or thoroughly entertained - putting your observations on the internet is valuable. People can reference your content for years. It could help inform future botanists. If there are too many plants to fit in enough dick jokes for the peanut gallery - it's ok. (Personally, I found it very interesting).

I still enjoyed the episode. It's great when you're dropping knowledge on us left and right, but the main draw for me feeling like I'm on a hike with a friend and appreciating nature together. If that walk includes social commentary and exact plant ID, great! If it's just "wow, look at that beautiful leaf" and "what the f-- is that?", also great! Random descriptions of what you're observing & what fascinates you can be just as interesting and educational for us.

I liked the episode. Yeah you weren’t as bouncy as usual but meh. You wandering through and not knowing what shit is an opportunity to show us what exactly you’re looking at for id later on. Sure you only get to Id to the level of fabaceae, for example. But point out exactly what structure makes it this, what you’re noting on leaves, veins, margins, colours for later, texture when you’re fondling the plant. It’s stuff you do automatically but don’t often seem to verbalise unless you know the species. You photograph the plants also, point out what and where you’d shoot, I would think a reference photo is a bit different to a pretty photo? I think this would keep the verbal ‘flow’ going.

I also love the really quiet moments just chilling with you hearing the quiet sounds of birds.

I enjoyed it. Sometimes it's nice to just have neat plants to look at without the social commentary and witty self banter (neither of which I mind, or I would go watch some other boring ass plant guy). Not knowing stuff? You're just human, my dude.

I enjoyed it thoroughly especially thinking about of you every come back after learning more about the plants here then we will have learned with you, and the diversity here is STUNNING.

Oh! And plant morphology. You can drill that into my head in every single video. I dont know if its annoying to explain it everytime but it's helped me learn to look at flowers and try to remember the different parts are called. Sorry if this is more annoying than helpful 😅

I'm not trying to be a dick but if the feedback really helps you or maybe because you get off on people saying mean shit to you, I'd like to help. For me, (probably because my mind is fucked up from too much phone use) eyecandy videos are just too quiet for me. I like to hear the soothing tones of a guy walking around and saying shit at plants. I did enjoy looking at the diversity because some of that stuff is wild but my ears felt lonely. Singing wouldn't be bad either. Maybe some tunes about civilizational collapse, ya know? I personally like the rants, fills up the dead air and I can get on board with most all of your astute observations. It puts words to how I feel. While i understand that these specific plants may not be in your expertise yet, Im wondering if theres anything more general to talk about. Like just basic geography of the region, history of where some of these plants might come from. I don't know shit about this stuff so anything helps. While i do come here for the plants and rocks, i enjoy getting to know some of the wildlife, mainly reptiles and birds. I'm only saying these things with the hope that it helps you in some way. Other than that, i hope you can get some good rest and eat some good food soon. Thats all from me. I'll shut up now. Gfy bye

I enjoyed it, but I'm not very knowledgeable about botany so any content is nice imho. I didn't know the term Resupinate before this video.

Can't speak for everyone else, but I still enjoyed the video. I think you're being a lot more critical of yourself than most other people would be. I think what might be important is the relative difference in knowledge between yourself and the viewers, and I think in most cases this is somewhat static, regardless where you are in the world. You can guarantee that if you don't know much about the plants, then we know virtually nothing. For example, I have three different orchids growing at home and I wouldn't have been able to identify half of those as orchids in general, let alone down to genus or species level. Obviously you'll always get a small number of viewers who happen to be experts on those particular plants or in that country/region, but if that's the case, then they're unlikely to be dicks (because they fucking love plants). Also, I think it's understandable and expected that if you're not in your normal region, then you're not going to know as much about the plants. You could come to New Zealand and look at our stuff and you probably wouldn't recognise most of it, but I'd still watch the shit out of it. That's another point - even from New Zealand, it's still very interesting, even though we don't have the plants that feature in your videos. If I'm being honest, it's actually interesting to see you slightly confused for once. People are not just interested in the plants, they're also interested in you, which is why you can make videos that don't even have plants in them, and they're still good. Also, how much fieldwork are you doing behind the scenes to ID these plants? Or are you just watching back the footage and doing it that way?

Just put it in 4 low and cruise on down bro. It's not exactly the same as the others but definitely interesting and in a way humbling. I like it but I'm just a 200lb ape and think ooow look at the purdy flowas 🤤

SJC

Ah if you add the plant names in the lil caption things I'm happy. People just getting into botany don't know what they're looking at a lotta times so it might be cool to see how you handle it with all your experience.

Samuel Jensen