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NEPA [email protected] KB3QKV

I have one plant left that is almost 4 weeks old that I did not plant in the garden and probably just too lazy to toss it onto the compost pile. The plant is only about 6 inches high but it has 5 or 6 small leaves on it and it has 3 male buds. Is this plant growing strange? And is it normal to have 3 male buds being so small and young?

6/1/2005 3:49:48 PM

Montoursville, PA

Stress causes many plants to flower early. Your stress is a ball of root bound knotted and twisted roots. Stick it in a half barrel full of compost and soil and watch that sucker go. Set it under a tree and shoot for a tree born pumpkin as a conversation piece. Maybe tease it up and over the out house for the same weird purpose. :)))

6/1/2005 4:40:17 PM

NEPA [email protected] KB3QKV

Now that is a very good novel idea. Learn something from you all the time. Thanks. But why are the leaves so small on the plant, same reason?

6/1/2005 6:16:08 PM

Montoursville, PA

Yep! When you attempt to set it free slice and cut down two sides, of the root ball, with a sharp knife and give it a chance, to break out and grow. I would use mycorrhizae dust, to put everything, on my side that I can think of.

I would use no commercial root hormones but a drink of kelp, willow, or alfalfa tea would introduce mild natural root hormones. The willow and alfalfa may be local native plants ground into a slurry, in the blender, when the wife is out shopping. :) A cup full, in the bottom, of the planting hole is fine. The roots will go there and so will the mycorrhizae, for what they need. None of these will burn or otherwise harm the plant.

6/2/2005 12:06:41 PM