Growing Your Own

Recently, Torley went looking for foliage in-world that grew and developed over time, because by default, the trees and shrubs of SL are pre-fabricated and unchanging, like so many chickenwire and canvas sculptures that set decorators use for live productions of Midsummer Night Dream. Someone had already created a whole school of clown fish, after all, even programmed them to have genes and pass those on to their offspring. Surely a Resident had scripted artificial flora that responded to sunlight and water, and grew?

Unsurprisingly, Torley finally found what she was looking for.

Also unsurprisingly, the first credible genus of artificial plant life to appear in SL is cannabis-- leafy, green, the weed with roots in hell (but legal for medicinal use in the state of California).

The praying animation is embedded in the pot, too, so you need to get close enough to summon the rain gods, and trigger the system to acknowledge it's being "watered". (I.E., to grow more.)

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via: New World Notes