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Originally Posted by venturabananas
Check out the photo and comments by Pitangadiego in this thread.
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Mark that is not really a fair comparison, you are comparing a golfball and a softball sized corms and then saying "see the one with the greater surface area has more roots".
I could easily show you a WS with a basketball sized corm that has more roots than the than the SS in the photo.
A better comparison would be two plants with the same size P-stem at the time of flowering. That is how I compare roots, bananas to bananas not apples to oranges.
At the age in those photos the WS does not have the leaf area to support fruit and the SS does not have the root mass to support fruit, so it is irrelevant at that point which has larger leaves or more roots.
I studied the difference in yield and found it to be almost exactly the same, however I did not track the "days to harvest" because of the difficulties of determining the age of the plants "DAY 1"
Your goal should be to have sufficient root mass and leaf area to provide proper fruit filling.
I did read what Pitangadiego has written, quote
"Roots can extend as much at 10' from the trunk of the plant."
Now that could be a completely different explanation because the roots of my plants extend much futher, easily in the 20 to 25 foot range.
10 foot roots cover 314 sq ft
25 foot roots cover 1963 sq ft and gives a plant 6 times the area to collect water and nutrients.
Try to be more objective when making a comparison, this will lead to more accurate and useful data.
The bunch on the left was from a sword sucker (18.1 lbs), and
the bunch on the right was from a water sucker (28.3 lbs)
The weight only includes the fruit, not the stem.
These bunches are both from African Rhino Horns and the photo does not prove which is better, but does prove they both produce fruit.
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