xenia typhoid Another interesting observation was that when a plant was seriously threatened it tended to "pass out" from "emotional" overload. The plant appears to go into a "deep faint" for a while and then recovers. Backster discovered this while he was demonstrating his effect to a group of visiting scientists. The plants simply would not respond on this occasion and it was discovered that one of the scientists in the group roasted plants in an oven to get their dry weight for experiments. Forty five minutes after this person left the building the plants came back to normal. This "fainting" effect has been replicated on many occasions. 000423 what's it to you? who go blather from