eli5: how do climbing plants “know” where to “reach” places where they can grab onto to grow up a surface? Ex: peas have those little green string “fingers” that they wrap around trellis in a garden.
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Its less predictive on the part of the peas than it seems when you have a less than ideal enviro for them. For ex: my yard supports barely 1 pot of peas and they are climbing all over themselves, the wall, and my tomato trellis in the pursuit of light. I can’t blame them. But also, the vibe things extend every 2 in + 2eaves of growth and start to automatically curl around anything, even nothing. The number of plants I’ve saved because I put their vines around my trellis is innumerable. But I hope they have a calm and happy life life out there and I’m not angry even if it was hard for them living on my balcony— it would be hard for me too.
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