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Sunday, July 07, 2024
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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Vine twist type 2.
The second type here is more like a deformity because I dont think it will necessarily correct itself, although it might.
I think these are both nutritional. I think they are related to some minerals not being available in low ph soil. But vining plants will often twist their vines around as they seek something to grow on. So its tempting to say its just natural. It might be both. The plant might interpret low minerals as a sign that it is starving and the only way for a plant to avoid starving is to send the roots more energy and the only way to send the roots more energy is to climb higher to where there is more sunlight.
On the other hand if the plant is well supplied with nutrients it wont get that nutritional signal to twist and climb?
So all of this could be pro-adaptive, and generally anything pro-adaptive cannot be readily dismissed, no matter how kooky or farfetched as it may outwardly appear.
I am going to interpret both types of twisting as a sign that the plant is nutritionally hungry, and not totally happy.
The issue, for example, might be that although there may still calcium in the soil, the plant is using it as fast as the roots can send it, so the plant is depleted, even if the soil is not. An important differentiation, in understanding the problem.
If there is plenty of calcium in the soil, then my job becomes helping the plant uptake more of whats already there, rather than adding more.
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