Strange leaf sprouts

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Re: Strange leaf sprouts

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Post: # 49598Unread post Tormato
Tue Jun 29, 2021 10:55 am

zendog wrote: Fri Jun 25, 2021 6:04 pm Every year my maters show me some new type of growth that surprises me. Fasciated stems, flower shoots that turn into suckers... I thought I'd seen it all. This year some of the leaves on my Eva Ste. Wendell is sending shoots out along the main rib of some of the leaves. I've had some plants that look like they may have viral issues or possibly herbicide drift from someone a few plots over who sprayed some roundup. Is this something folks accept as normal or something I should be worried about?
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I'd only start worrying if it's a cross with Audrey II. :roll:

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Sun Jul 04, 2021 12:26 am

I started seeing odd growth patterns a few years back as I started pruning more and more, while still using lots of nutrition, be it 10-10-10, fish, pea/bean rotation, or compost. I think the plants just want to GROW when the sun is strong and long in June and July. With all that energy, when you take them down from their normal 16+ stems at that time to 4 3 2 or even 1 stems, they need to direct the excess energy somewhere. I'll admit I don't recall a suckering leaf like that. But often the flower trusses into new stem, and repeating suckers at a leaf crotch.

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Re: Strange leaf sprouts

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Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:51 am

I had something similar with my Mortgage Lifters last year. I even went as for as to try and nurture them, but nothing came of it. I'm confident it wasn't due to herbicide, and was a fluke growth.
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Thu Jul 08, 2021 2:35 pm

[mention]Rockoe10[/mention] It's still there, so its evolved to fool ya... :-)
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