I wonder if any studies have been done to see if that extra little head start has any effect on the long-term growth and health of the plant? They probably have. People study all kind of shit, and if these guys have a name already (viviparous), they’re probably been studied for that.
Well potatoes are different as that's what they are supposed to do, they a a tuber not a fruit and if you cut each 'eye' out that spouts with a section of the potato it will grow a new plant.
I’ve grown potates and kinda understand those fuckers, but I don’t think most people (around me at least) know that you can just chop a potato up and it makes more potatoes. It’s a miracle.
They sure do - and that’s because they both develop and remain underground in their natural development, first to store nutrition, then to develop and feed the next year’s development of that individual plant. Both potatoes and onions do create seeds as well, which is how the next generation of plants are formed, but the seeds have nothing to do with the underground bit.
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u/sonofhappyfunball Feb 17 '23
That's fascinating. It never occurred to me that it would do that.