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Old October 22, 2015   #9
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LS- cool and useful. I didn't make note of the placement of shoots in the leaf axils, but it's important to get a better picture overall of the productivity of a plant like Jagodka. I was assuming that most leaves would sooner or later produce a shoot from the axil (other than terminal leaf, which was a wrong assumption since they sometimes produce a shoot from the axil after all). I also noticed that some leaves on the main stem prior to the first cluster didn't produce a shoot in semi-determinate plants... this surprised me, I expected them all to do it.

I hear you about the simple cases vs the not so simple. And the exceptions.
I now understand why the genetics of growth habit haven't been studied in so much depth. Counting internodes is a really hard job. And then there are exceptions, variations, etc. which can't be covered by a simple notation. Forks are another one that turned up here...
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