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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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I think this is analagous to how the phloem spreads into the pumpkin. I dont think its linear... it may move inward rather slowly starting at the periphery of the plant but then it would speed up near the pumpkin. When the sun goes down the gradient shifts upward and the phloem probably still moves towards the pumpkin, but slower. Pumpkins grown on a scale might be showing the slowing of the phloem movement/the 24 hour variation as the leaves load sugars into the plant. The size of the plant will reflect the amount of sugars being loaded into the plant, and the need of the roots will be met, and the growth rate of the pumpkin...
Does any of this really matter? Well yes because if the curve was an equation (which it is) then the math could figure out where the grower is just spinning their wheels because if the phloem being generated is so far away that it cant travel to the pumpkin within 24 hours, and the leaves then reload the plant with more phloem the next day, then that part of the plant is extraneous. Its doing next to nothing. But could that extra bit of plant be helping if it was positioned closer to the pumpkin? Well, maybe.
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