CULT: Snapping vs. cutting re-visited
- Subject: CULT: Snapping vs. cutting re-visited
- From: J* C*
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:36:25 PST
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
John wrote:
>Which brings up another aspect of this which has been discussed
>before, and that is - breaking off the stalks instead cutting them.
>After the bloom on a stalk is spent, if you grasp the stalk near the
>base and snap it off, by bending it sharply towards the long axis of
>the rz, you leave a break that is generally thought to be better than
>what you get when cutting the stalk. The theory being that a break
>will occur at cell boundries rather than a knife slicing through >cells
and leaving a field of "minature potholes" for bacteria to >collect in.
And the obstinate amongst us will still insist that this does not work
for everyone, or for every stalk, no matter how firm and fresh the stalk
is. Sometimes the heel of the rz will snap right off, with several tiny
increases attatched. Sometimes the whole rz. will lift out of the
ground, if the soil is very light. Been there- done that!
Jan Clark, Australia
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