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Plants you can cheer for, and those who cheer for you
by Becky - September 18, 2007 - 11:16 PM

My theme for this week started out as hair, but for today’s post it seemed almost impossible not to extend this theme to include something that wants so badly to be considered hair–that signature houseplant/talisman of the 80s: the Chia Pet. sdfAnd rather than embark on an abridged tour of Chia-dom, I’m going to share a little about my favorite Chia, and it’s actually called the Chiaffalo. Oh, yes, that’s a hybrid of exactly what you’re thinking…In the words of its personal site:

The Chiaffalo is the end result of a grassroots movement to create the World’s Largest Chia Pet out of Jamestown, North Dakota’s ‘Worlds Largest Buffalo’.

Any North Dakotans or trespassers seen this? Okay. So there’s a plant you can support. And now for the one that supports you: The Message Plant.

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I found this on popgadget, which stresses it’s for women…Alright, so I suppose it’s assumed men don’t need this kind of engineered reinforcement? But it’s so earnest!

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Comments (3)

  1. I grew up about an hour from Jamestown, ND. It’s probably important to note that the buffalo has never been a chia — the website/group is supposedly lobbying for permission to temporarily ‘chiafy’ it. So the Chiaffalo isn’t “the end result” as stated — it’s what they hope would be the end result if they were ever able to maintain permission to attempt it.

    They make no mention on the site of how they plan to do it, etc. Also, I can’t imagine them getting permission to mess with the buffalo after it’s gone through a several thousand dollar restoration. I’m assuming this is just an idea they’re just doing for fun and a little bit of notiriety (It did get them on M_F, afterall!). It is a clever idea, but I seriously douubt it will ever happen.

    posted by EV on 9-19-2007 at 7:06 am

  2. Oh, I see. It was a grass roots movement, very punny of them.

    posted by Sammy on 9-20-2007 at 2:37 am

  3. I’ve seen those message seed/plants. It was either in Michigan, Wisconsin, Vermont, or in a SkyMall… I don’t think that narrowed it down any. But it is certainly a strange idea.

    posted by Amy on 9-20-2007 at 10:13 am

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