Does "plantering" har någon biologisk inverkan på Pequeninos (piggies) livscykel?

Uppdaterat svar

• Nej, trädet skulle växa även om piggie inte planteras.

  När du besöker mödrarna varnas Ender:

  “And if you harm them,” said Leaf-eater, “we will kill you unplanted and knock down your tree.”

  Det betyder att de förväntar sig att trädet växer även om Ender dödas unplanterad (detta är innan han säger att människor inte har ett tredje liv).

• Men , de döda måste vara på marken , baserat på ett hot som Shouter gjorde på Ender när de började förhandla:

  “She says you must teach us everything you know, take us out to the stars, bring us the hive queen and give her the lightstick that this new human brought with you, or in the dark of night she’ll send all the brothers of this forest to kill all the humans in your sleep and hang you high above the ground so you get no third life at all.”

• Nu, vad "plantering" ritual gör, det gör att ett träd blir ett faderträd - men det är oklart om det är biologisk eller rituell skillnad .

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  När Människan diskuterar med Ender att Ender måste ge hime den ära, säger han:

  “And if we make this covenant between your tribe and ours,” said Human, “will you give me the honor of the third life? Will you let me rise up and drink the light?”
  “Can we do it quickly? Not the slow and terrible way that—”
  “And make me one of the silent trees? Never fathering? Without honor, except to feed my sap to the filthy macios and give my wood to the brothers when they sing to me?”

  Och senare, när man diskuterar undertecknandet av förbundet:

  “I know what you wish, my friend Speaker,” said Human. “To you it feels like murder. But to me—when a brother is given the right to pass into the third life as a father, then he chooses his greatest rival or his truest friend to give him the passage.

Original svar.

Yes, it seems so. When the pequeninos speak to Miro on the night of the Speaking, and they discuss the birth of 300+ new babies that may have been one of the "bad" things Starways Congress discovered, Arrow said:

. “They saw that food would be plenty,” said Arrow. “Now we’re sure to win the next war. **Our enemies will be planted in huge new forests all over the plain, and the wives will put mother trees in every one of them**.”

And Ender confirms it from what he learned from piggies that day:

“But what if the dead don’t go to heaven? What if the dead are transformed into new life, right before your eyes? What if when a piggy dies, **if they lay out his body just so, it takes root and turns into something else**? What if it turns into a tree that lives fifty or a hundred or five hundred years more?” ... When the piggies kill one of their people, he is transformed into a tree.

And the piggies confirm it themselves when they discuss Human:

Ouanda looked at Ender in surprise, then back at Mandachuva. “I thought everybody liked Human,” she said. “Great honor,” said Mandachuva. “A wise one.” Then Mandachuva poked Ender in the hip. “But he’s a fool in one thing. He thinks you’ll do him honor. He thinks you’ll take him to the third life.” "What’s the third life?” asked Ender.