that rule of thumb crap I picked up on greensmanspage years ago but you missed the preceding sentence about phenos completely btw lol.
besides didnt i say happier instead of healthier?
like you said, and like I said. the genetics of each particular phenotype predetemine the number of blades on a petiole.Say you have a plant that is genetically predetermined to have 11 blades on each petiole when grown in full sun. Hypothetically, grown in shade the most you can get out of it being 9. The plant is entirely healthy, but the predetermined traits are not fulfilled because the energy is not there. To me a plants happiness analogous to fulfilling its genetic destiny, So therefore would the plant that was grown to its genetic destiny of 11 blades not be the happier plant? |