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Friday, August 07, 2026
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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10.20 Jolivette. Perfect round shape. But it was a bit malnourished as a young tot. Hard to feed them better in hindsight. A time machine would be the best gardening tool.
I'm a little confused about VPD I think having low humidity and high temps adds some cooling power to the leaves. But I wonder if the EC should be lower because the plant may not need as much food with the extra water it may be drinking. I also think the native soil biology may be helping the plants adapt to the heat. Perhaps the same thing happens in nature, specifically I wonder if some of the damage to the forests due to high temps or drought is due to changes in the soil biology rather than any direct harm to the flora atop the soil. The damage seen above ground might be due to changes occurring below ground. Maybe the trees are not getting too hot or dry, instead it is actually the mycorizzae that is getting too hot or dry.
I sometimes suspect that the mycorizzae will transfer energy from one plant to another. Suppose there are a bunch of weak tomato plants growing in an overcrowded situation but one will set a fruit and then the growth of that fruit will seem to be a group effort. It's possible in a Darwinian/game theory sense that it's better for the plants (and myci) to help one plant reproduce successfully as a team than for all the plants to fail to reproduce.
The myco could be a huge driver of reproductive success because the life of the fungus itself is entirely dependent on the reproductive success of the plant. So it would be in the self interest of the myco for there to be mechanisms by which it can help the plant, or group of plants, reproduce more successfully. This is why some weeds might be so detrimental, the myco could literally be transferring energy from the pumpkin plant to the weeds. The inverse could happen too which is why the weeds under the pumpkin canopy sometimes fail to thrive despite having the resources to thrive.
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