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Fri, Jun 13, 14 at 16:58
| Looking at two adjoining old abandoned houses fore sale. In one unattended back yard is a patch of rhubarb with two foot stems and leaves a foot across. In an adjoining yard, unattended, are rhubarb plants twice this size with seed stalks higher than my reach. I'm thinking previous care? Age? Or strains, varieties? |
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| Or different kinds of plants Please post picture of each one. Where do you live? |
This post was edited by jean001a on Fri, Jun 13, 14 at 20:33
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- Posted by theforgottenone1013 5b/6a MI (My Page) on Fri, Jun 13, 14 at 20:40
| Maybe the large one was planted in amended soil or just better soil. Maybe it gets more water somehow or more light. They could be the same variety, a different variety, or one (or both) could be from seed. There are a lot of factors that affect size. And it's impossible to say which specific one it is unless they are growing next to each other under the same conditions. I do know that rhubarb started from seed has a ton of natural variation. I've got 37 seedlings that I started earlier this year. Some have red stalks, some have green, there's one that is almost a yellow, and there are major size differences among them. They've all received the same care so nothing else but genetics can account for these differences. Rodney |
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