Re: Clams on the Halfshell

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From: c*@sympatico.ca

To: S*@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 7:42 AM

Subject: Re: [SpaceAgeRobin]Clams on the Halfshell

--- In S*@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Orr" <i*@m...>
wrote:
> Too much bone meal?

Perhaps some cultivars or possibly all of them are genetically
unstable to some degree and fluctuations is temperature cause this.
Paul, has your weather this year differed dramatically from the
previous two years ?  Did you say this plant is growing in a
neglected bed ?  This would shed light on the weather hypothesis.  If
some sort of chemical reaction which determines appendage _expression_
is occurring, heat could be accelerating the reaction.  As I've seen
with some of the hydrogenations I used to run at work, temperature
was always a critical factor.  Some reactions would go so fast at
higher temperatures that I could literally over reduce the molecule
creating an undesirable compound.  Something like this could be
occurring on top of the micro nutrient theories. 

I interested in trying some of the more genetically stable plants
that Mike Sutton is talking about.

For what it's worth, this is just mind babble at this point.

Chris