Re: Re: CULT: REB: division


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linda Mann wrote:
> 
> John Jones in California wrote:
> > The criteria we use at our sort nights for the club sales to indicata a
> > "probable" bloomerr the following spring is:
> >
> > Five leaves on the fan and signs of increase on the rhizome (toe,
> > pre-toe wedge, or swelling like a garlic clove)
> 
> Duh - what is toe and pre-toe wedge?  Got a picture?  Where would the
> swelling like a garlic clove be?  On the side of the mother rhizome,
> like a bunion?

A Toe is an increase that is not big enough to have developed its first
leaves. A pre-Toe wedge is the beginning of a Toe. Local jargon I guess. See:

http://63.198.101.26/PNF:byName:/Toe%20And%20Wedge/

John                     | "There be dragons here"
                         |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
                         |  to indicate the edge of the known world.
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