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Originally Posted by originalstrain
i never said it wouldnt work! im just sayin that you ARE inviting disease! if your plant is a little sick and you dont know it, it could very well get real sick! thats common plant knowledge, you would never cover up the trunk on a tree would you? why not to be on the safe side fill it up with dirt and leave the trunk a little moat not touching dirt? it will dub as a resovoir too. look it up its all there hell tomato plants tell you plant them 80% underground but its not fool proof! and if you can do it to the trunk, you can do it all the way up, dont know where you read that leaves are a special rule? all i can say is try it! take your chances!
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the mishaps you describe will usually occur if you bury above the leaves, up to the fleshy part of the stem. once, i saw a plant develope mold and rot. just once.
i bury my plants as a standard. beanlings always stretch out a lil, so i always base them up to the cotyledons for stability and lower plant hieght (plant looks like there is no stretch after refilling pot)
11-20-2007, 05:07 AM
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