RE: root wars

Dan-
I would guess that once you cut the tops of your pollen stock plants,
without the leaves to provide for them that the roots would die off
quickly, maybe within a few days???  Just a GUESS.   	But ... I think
that we all agree that it is better to leave them in the ground, even if
they grow some, than go digging them up and maybe damage some roots from
the # 1 plant. 

Chris Michalec-  
Glad to here the boys are out and the girls are starting to show up too.
Maybe when you plant is "big" my family and I could make a visit to
them?

Gordon Tanner
Maple Valley, WA

> Folks - Because my patch is about 1,000 sq ft I will only be growing
> out
> one plant.  However, I was planning on keeping several others *very*
> small
> (~ 25 sq ft each) as pollenation stock.  Does anyone know if the roots
> of
> the small plants will continue to grow and interfere with the main
> one?  I
> know what the patch will look like above ground, but I don't want to
> sabotage the growing conditions sub-surface.
> 
> Intuition says a plant will only develop as much root structure as it
> needs
> or can use, but I've never dug up a heavily pruned plant.
> 
>         Dan Shapiro
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