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webster n. y. u.s.a.

i noticed this week in the patch that under the buried vine there are tubers growing around the vine. any idea what this is?

9/17/2007 5:54:22 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

its called roots...............

9/17/2007 6:14:34 PM

Rhode Island

tubers

9/17/2007 6:34:56 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

I'll disagree roots..tubers are storage area's of a plant and can be dug and replanted.

9/17/2007 6:45:29 PM

Farmerville, Louisiana

them are tumers not tubers if they are tubers you have a very special plant and i would keep it a secret!!!!!!!!

9/17/2007 10:02:59 PM

Hudsonville, Michigan ([email protected])

I've had some odd growth on my plant this year that looks like a ball/clump of twisted/deformed vine/leaf growth that emerges (or partially emerges) from buried vines and a tertiary emerges from it. The whole clump & tertiary is easily twisted off and removed without even cutting it. I presume this would have been normal tertiary growth if I had not buried it before pinching.Is this what you are seeing?
Frank

9/18/2007 9:40:44 AM

Somers, CT

The guys in the band used to smoke tubers all the time. Second hand smoke gave me a headache.

9/18/2007 10:00:02 AM

Wi

Yup, that glob is normal tertiary growth. I get this on my plants every so often after everything is terminated. It must be the plants way of trying to be reproductive and put out more blossoms.

9/18/2007 10:05:53 AM

webster n. y. u.s.a.

frank , you described it exactly. at 4 inches across these things look similar to a potato when cut with a knife.never halve seen these before,thanks for the input, tim

9/18/2007 4:55:30 PM

Wi

Tim, this is what I get also. Same thing. Just a burried tertiary that is trying to work it's way to the surface. It end up as a mutant glob of junk. Big white ball with leaves / etc.

9/18/2007 4:56:53 PM