Why do some plants have two blooms in the same season?
- We have left Arramaiatza or June. Half a year later, now. Daylight has elongated and daylight has been interrupted and cut off. Now we enter the semester in which light is cut and darkness is extended, summer and fall.
Weather forecasts say we will have a mediocre summer. I'm not guessing anything, but saying that we'll have hot days is not guessing... During spring and as in the early summer days. Jean Baptiste Constantin, from Santagraz, would meet the June Sosos Calores; he wrote in Eskualduna magazine in 1911: “Nails are closed, fungi lili jelkhi, / Arramaiatza jin ekhi sü tholtzeki”. Folding. Fold the words in my eyes. Sunburn means embarrassment, misunderstanding.
And those days of June were just the threshold of what is coming to us. I often mention the important moments in the decisions taken by solstice plants. Daylight starts to be cut or lengthened, there is a big difference and conditions the plant cycle.
The day we entered in summer, we were raising grass in an apple tree with apples that were still in flower (Malus domestica). The logical and ideal thing for apples is that they flourish three months earlier. See what's going to happen this year with the apple... Did you guess?
There are also plants that have a second flowering. Magnolia tulipa (Magnolia x soulangeana) and Chinese glycine (Wisteria sinensis) flourish in late winter or early spring. Both are people who live for many years and who open their eye-catching annual bloom before the leaves open. Both are excellent. Now, when the spring growth of the lodging is reduced, they give a second flourishing. And for winter, it prepares more fruits and seeds. It's more modest than before and it's not as impressive on leaves as it is on the peeled plant, but it attracts attention. What does the second time look like at the same time? What is the reason for this?
I'm inclined to think about the place of the plant and I would say it's a precarious decision. Plants do a lot of things just in case. The mother who created it gave her the father and her genes are put every year to give flowers, fruits of them and seeds so that they have the safest future possible. Those who come from that first flowering find it hard to sustain and increase. It's the trend of most plants. But if I'm going to give it a second mediocre flourishing, what's driving me? What do I show you? I'm strong enough to live longer than the misconception of summer, if I have the courage to generate more seeds for winter, my grandmother will have more seed, we will explore and colonize more land.
And you, folding the exercises, are you willing to deploy your grandmother's genes?
