Where did they get the seeds from the end credits?
It looked like plants were much rarer than what they seemed to have rather quickly. • At the end of the film the camera pans out from the city for the first time to show that outside the city a bunch of plants are growing. • I got the impression that that was a farm, set up by the recolonizing humans. Plus, even if it was already there, it doesn’t explain how they got enough to grow food crops like corn (which we saw), and not just weeds. Corn, as I recall, is incapable of reproducing without human aid, and as such using seeds from god-knows-where is the only possibility. • Given that the stated purpose of the starship fleet was to recolonize Earth eventually, they probably had stored supplies for that purpose. With very good preservation techniques, yeah. • Actually, I got the impression that all those plants had simply grown in the time Wall-E was away from earth. The Axiom returns to earth at lightspeed, yes, but he probably spent weeks, if not months hanging onto that Axiom-bound r