MM> > produce some blossoms (I heard one nationally accepted
agronomist warn that plants that were too satisfied with much
green leafage would not feel threatened enough to attempt to
reproduce 8-);
MM>oh great! psycho-babble horticulture! i suppose this same
agronomist also suggested that plants that would not produce
chose not to produce because th had some serious "attachment
issues" and couldn't stand the thought of being separated from
their fruit. }8)
I take due note of your modifying }8-) Mike.
I think I probably should have been more respective of the
departed and identified James Underwood Crockett, eminent
horticulturist, graduate of University of Massachusetts
Stockbridge School of Agriculture, with consideable experience
in California, New York, Texas and New England; and guide to
many of we weed-pullers through his excellant PBS-TV series of
some years ago (about the same time Julia Childs showed us how
to boil H2O and crack eggs 8-). He was not without humor, but
seldom trivalized good horticulture practices.
MM>personally, i have always thought it a bad idea to attribute
emotions to plants.
I am reminded of the chap who was admired for his really delicious
blush-red tomatoes. When his neighbor enquired how he managed this
feat; he responded that every morning, after taking his shower he
came down in his shower robe and stood with it open before his plants
in the warm sun light for a little while. When he asked his neighbor
a few weeks later if she had had any success with his procedure; she
replied her tomatoes had not been very appreciative but her cucumbers
had developed quite markedly 8-).
Ciao, Ack.
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