Friendly Reminder!

[Magoo!]

Am I the only one who considered a differenciation in soil quality which would no doubt harbor some unknown element which would prevent Earth crops from growing?

You see an F'd up look pine tree like thing, you decide to grow corn, then you realise that the soil contains molydiquetziguonicol... Phosphate. The corn dies.

Incidentally all habitable planets wont be kind to alien vegetation.

So everybody's argument that crops and seeds brought from Earth would survive and flourish in this fantastical world of ponies, rainbows, and elegant brown truffles of the Elfwood Forests is entirely shot down. Wanna terraform Mars and see if the soil is nice? Have fun. We might be able to breathe but our crops wont like it.

That is not to say, however, that soil samples didn't come along as well and we weren't able to duplicate that to some degree and placed within green-house like places. But the idea that they came down and saw giant mushroom trees growing and decided to cultivate tobacco or sugar cane is completely ludicrous.

Adieu.