Will This Work The Same As Dead Heading?

[big rockpile]

If you pick vegetables will it make the plant want to produce more.

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[Anniekay]

Basicallt, yes but it doesn't work with every veg. Corn, for instance isn't going to produce more corn after picking. Peppers, summer squash, etc will produce more because they want to set seed. Remove the fruit, no seed left, they produce more fruit for more seed.

 

[big rockpile]

Dealing with Beans, Cucumbers, Peppers and Tomatoes.

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[Ruderunner]

Yes on the above list. Beans especially, if you don't pick them they get big and woody. Not good eats.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Peppers and tomatoes if the season is long enough, I don't think it would work in England, no time for more than one cro0p on one plant. I plant more tomatoes a bit after my first ones so they are maturing later.

 

[Mystic Moon Tree]

If you pick vegetables will it make the plant want to produce more.

big rockpile

It really depends on the plant. With most the answer would be no, with a few exceptions. Usually with the ones that will, its because you are putting them in a stress state. What you can do though is remove excess fruits & vegitables that are less desireable and the plant is able to put more energy into the ones that remain, but you also lessen your chances of everything making it to harvest time with possible things that can happen to ruin the fruit/vegitable.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

Some things flower once and that's it, some keep flowering until fruit starts to get ripe, if you keep picking the fruit and it never gets ripe they keep flowering. It is a hormonal thing, when the fruit starts to ripen it releases a hormone that says 'It's okay, you have done it, stop flowering'. The ones that flower once don't have that, if you pick all your apples before they are ripe it won't start flowering again, but if you leave some runner beans (Pole beans?) on the plant to get ripe for seed it will stop flowering.

 

[big rockpile]

I think I'm figuring it out. There is a Line between being too small and too old.

This should be fun trying to eat an Apple with two teeth in my head.

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[Mystic Moon Tree]

Make apple sauce & cider

 

[big rockpile]

I only got half it ate I even left the pealing on.

Rest is compost.

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[Oliver Buckle]

Evolution tends to fill in all the possibilities, and plants have been around a long time, they have had a lot longer to evolve than animals. They start off as little single cells wit a single strand of DNA that split into two cells, each also with a strand of DNA, then they start lining up next to each other and joining together and suddenly there is a cell with two strands of DNA. That grows and develops into something like a liverwort which has two different generations. One is a thing that pushes up into the air and releases spores which have one strand of DNA . That makes a sort of flat leaf hat develops two 'sexed' spots on it, they move across the leaf, come together and make the two strand generation that sends up the spore spike. Then it moves on to angiosperms and all that multiple generation stuff still happens, but just as a few cells inside the flower. The two strand DNA has mainly taken over, it is the apple tree and seeds, but the apple around the seeds is a side product which has THREE strands of DNA, that makes it lots more mutable and it will evolve quicker. Give it a few hundred million years and all that two strand stuff that makes the tree will be just a couple of cells in the reproductive process, like the single DNA strand cells that used to be the main plant became single DNA strand, single cell sex cells. The three strand DNA flesh of the apple will evolve to be the main plant.

 

[Mystic Moon Tree]

Evolution tends to fill in all the possibilities, and plants have been around a long time, they have had a lot longer to evolve than animals. They start off as little single cells wit a single strand of DNA that split into two cells, each also with a strand of DNA, then they start lining up next to each other and joining together and suddenly there is a cell with two strands of DNA. That grows and develops into something like a liverwort which has two different generations. One is a thing that pushes up into the air and releases spores which have one strand of DNA . That makes a sort of flat leaf hat develops two 'sexed' spots on it, they move across the leaf, come together and make the two strand generation that sends up the spore spike. Then it moves on to angiosperms and all that multiple generation stuff still happens, but just as a few cells inside the flower. The two strand DNA has mainly taken over, it is the apple tree and seeds, but the apple around the seeds is a side product which has THREE strands of DNA, that makes it lots more mutable and it will evolve quicker. Give it a few hundred million years and all that two strand stuff that makes the tree will be just a couple of cells in the reproductive process, like the single DNA strand cells that used to be the main plant became single DNA strand, single cell sex cells. The three strand DNA flesh of the apple will evolve to be the main plant.

Delicious eddible evolution.