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Originally Posted by venturabananas
Wills, I don't understand the physics or biology of it either, but it seems that pups are usually more vigorous than the mother plant -- when the mother was the original planting. For example, the first pup ("first ratoon crop") almost always gets taller than the mother plant. You can see many examples of this in the data on MGIS:
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In my local nursery, you can see many cases where the mother stem died before blooming, yet the pups seem quite healthy. |
Ugh that was what I was afraid of. So when the mother dies without blooming it is a slow process of loss of vigor? I wonder if the pups have a shot at blooming this summer? They are quite large as well.