Something here about an existence proof that the same ratchet can go opposite directions in different media. I wonder why that is?

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truly a major improvement in my life. the "put a string through the hole, tie a bow, and stick it in a folder" trick works great too. sequence is right there years later.

Anyway, I did a thread over on twitter about the "Liana" growing pattern and how I've observed it, to my surprise, in certain apple trees.
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But of course it's more complicated than that, and what is really required is balance between a few types, which is why Topping trees is highly frowned upon.

My understanding is that any coordination that happens is driven primarily by hormones. Different pieces of plant put out different hormones, which is why you can pressure it into growing a certain way by pruning AWAY the parts that are giving off the different regime hormones.

Each flower/leaf/bud is operating on: "well, I've got enough sugar/light/food, so I can grow."

My understanding is that there's no central "plan" and the parts of a tree aren't really "aware" of each other, which is why trees will grow heavier than their structrue can handle.

So the job when pruning fruit trees is to pressure and guide these trees toward an optimal amount of steady fruiting growth.

With orchard trees you have more growing regimes:
-vertical growth / suckering / energy-seeking
-horizontal growth / fruiting wood
-vine-like growth, which can happen during tangles

It can throw you off when you see the same species growing wild in a tight woods--totally different growth pattern.

The branching angle is still recognizable, but it's happening higher, or ...under forest heliotropism pressure, the branches never develop the droop they do in open areas.

As an arborist, you often get used to recognizing a species by how it grows in the middle of an open yard: because those are the trees people pay to have pruned and removed.

To support the overall point, my general observation is that a single species can exhibit several sort of growth "regimes," triggered by the environment.

Great thread. Are you one of the accounts that cross posts on twitter? I seem to remember having seen you there. Want to connect this to a thread I had on vine growth patterns.

Work vs "performing effort"

Nomads solve this problem by putting a HARD stop on how many objects they carry.

What would an information version of this be?

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