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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by Zippy View Post

    Does anyone else think the thread title sounds like a crossword clue?

    Styx?
    Or, if the flowers need trimming, "Rhubarb flowers"

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by Gonzo View Post
    OK. I withdraw my accusation of trickery.
    Good to withdraw the accusation.

    Originally posted by Gonzo View Post
    From now on I will always believe everything that Threaded says.
    No you are as trusting as I am.

    I had to do a google search to see if he was telling the truth.

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  • Zippy
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    Does anyone else think the thread title sounds like a crossword clue?

    Styx?

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  • OwlHoot
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    As someone points out here, unusual flowering can be a sign of stress "poor rooting, poor soil, dry soil, poor climate, overcrowding and so on". So maybe threaded hasn't been properly watering his rhubarbs.

    A few years ago, after a hot dry summer, oak trees produced noticeably more acorns, the evolutionary principle being that when more likely flake out they should devote more effort to reproduction.

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  • Gonzo
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Did a google image search and rhubarb flowers do look like that.

    Flowering Rhubarb
    OK. I withdraw my accusation of trickery.

    From now on I will always believe everything that Threaded says.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by Gonzo View Post
    tsk

    I have this nagging feeling that I should look closer at the picture. Is it me, or does it look like the flower stalks are attached to the rhubarb stalks with tape?
    Did a google image search and rhubarb flowers do look like that.

    Flowering Rhubarb

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  • Gonzo
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    tsk

    I have this nagging feeling that I should look closer at the picture. Is it me, or does it look like the flower stalks are attached to the rhubarb stalks with tape?

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  • Gonzo
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    My parents always grew rhubarb and in the eighteen years that I lived with them I never saw a flower display once.


    OK, for the first couple of years I wouldn't have noticed at all, so call that sixteen years that it didn't happen.

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  • Durbs
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    Looks purty, must say i've seen a lot of Rhubard in my time but never noticed it flowering like your pics.

    Word on the street though is you need to get rid of the flowers if you want a decent crop: Rhubarb Flower
    Last edited by Durbs; 5 June 2010, 07:42.

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  • d000hg
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    My wife asked our friend "why are those onions all covered in soil"... she thought they grew on trees

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  • Zippy
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    I used to have some rhubarb in my garden. I loved it, cared for it, fed it (and made crumble out of it), but it never did that. The flowers look wrong though.

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  • lexington_spurs
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    stupendous footage - congratulations

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  • rhubarb
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    Well I'm flummoxed! Never known of such a thing!

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