Not sure we're on the same page mate, I'm talking about the roots needing to be there before the foliage can grow. As an example, if you take a cutting - the foliage that's on the cutting helps to provide carbohydrates to create roots - it's only after the roots are there that the foliage starts growing again. Not really anything to do with surface area of the leaves.Elmar wrote:I thought that if we trim the branches, the leaves that grow back should be more in number BUT the overall surface area of the leaves then are the same as those that were originally cut of for the ramification to occur...MoGanic wrote:
Hmm... a thought, if I may... if the foliage relies on the roots to keep the water flowing up as it evaporates, then wouldn't it follow that the roots need to be in place prior to the foliage being able to grow and ramify?
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Mo
Cheers mate,
Mo