I've grown thousands of these pure white types and what I've observed is that the amount of growth it will achieve is based on the amount of stored nutrients it has when separated from the mother plant or sister plant. But time is something the grower can control. The grower can easily control the plant's life or death expectancy by controlling the amount of space of the root zone which can essentially slow the growth. The plant will end with the same amount of growth but over a longer period of time. I don't like to compare them to a green plant but prefer to compare them to cut flowers that can stay absolutely beautiful for a year or longer. Eventually the plant will not have the force to push a new cigar leaf to the top but the pseudostem can be shortened which will allow the plant to produce a few more leaves.
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Originally Posted by PR-Giants
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Originally Posted by niblicksrus
This white Ae Ae has been separated from the mother and growing on its own for a year. It has never had any color in the leaves other than white.
Should be interesting to see (a) if the plant flowers and (b) if it throws a pup.
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