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Thu, Jun 7, 12 at 10:55
| I have some arugula and kale that I WSed (in containers) and some that I just scattered onto the dirt, meaning it hung out all winter, but without its own personal WS recycled greenhouse. For both the arugula and the kale, the WS stuff was a bit bigger early on, but then its bed fellows seemed to mostly catch up. But the WS plants bolted WAY ahead of the others. I had three foot tall seed stalks on the WS kale, but the direct seeded kale didn't even start to flower.
Is this something others have experienced as well? |
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| Hmmmm. Interesting. Two things that bring about bolting are heat and moisture stress. Your WS plants would have been in warmer (above ground) conditions, soil sooner than your direct sown plants, and the act of transplanting them would have disturbed roots needed to take up moisture....Just thinking out loud here, I haven't noticed the same. |
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| IF the WS plants were growing before the sown-in-ground plants then it makes snese that they might bolt faster as they matured earlier. |
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