Walking with Cabbages.... Challenge..!!

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  1. Phil A

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    Think I know what the problem is, these cabbages are so big they are warping space time around them.

    According to relativity theory we, as the observers, are only seeing them grow slowly, whereas they are seeing us running around speeded up towards the speed of light.
     
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      I remember growing these things before and I think it was two years before I had anything woody enough to make a walking stick out of.
      Mines stopped as well, but then I've not watered any of them.

      Got some massive leaves though, do they count.:o
       
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      It's easily explained by the Lorentz Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis where the theory of Special Relativity shows relativistic length contraction with regard to the Space Time Continuum.

      This should explain it nicely for you

      http://www.mrelativity.net/Papers/30/Lorentz_ Fitzgerald_ Contraction_Hamdan.pdf
       
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        We've had some really cold nights through July, I'm sure it's taken it's toll! I also think that the cabbages would have grown faster quicker if sown in June/July as they used to do on Jersey maybe? The leaves really are big aren't they? I tried one as a brolly as I bolted down the garden to get the washing in during a thunder shower yesterday.....didn't work very well, but it was covered in cabbage white eggs so I'm glad I'd removed it anyway!! Hoping to put some pics of mine up at the wkend...
         
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          So I've been away on a weeks holiday, (sounds familiar?) and one of my cabbages has grown another foot and one has grown another head!.

          The back one is over 5' now:

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          This is the one that had the middle aged spread a couple of weeks ago, now it's turned into Zaphod Beeblebrox, it doesn't look good as rain seem to be getting in between it's necks:
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          Can a walking stick have two handles?
           
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            They are looking good John .Taller than mine ..

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            The tallest one is just over 6 ft now. It's also produced a second head/growing point which I cut off tonight :what:
             
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            Well thats me stuffed then John, mines stalled at 4 foot:DOH:
             
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            A couple of weeks on from mine stalling...they have started to grow on again albeit slowly.

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            The tallest is now around 4 feet, but also has a ready grown handle!

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            Sadly though...the cabbage whites are attacking them now..

            Steve...:)
             
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              Two of ours have grown fairly well but nothing like yours and they have been skeletonised by the cabbage whites. All our others have stalled at between 6" and 12". None of them have been fed or looked after in any way :(.
               
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              well my cabbages aren't going to win any height competitions, but I'm still quite pleased with how they're coming on...to say that I had to clear a space to plant them in what was a very overgrown garden full of trees and shrubs and brambles etc. I have now cleared two small areas for veg...still surrounded by nettles and ground elder at the moment! :)
               

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                Still no significant growth from mine.
                 
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                Well done Julie, yours are taller than my second batch (sown in late April). I wonder if they are going to keep growing over the winter?
                 
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                I wonder? Maybe they'll slow right down and then put on a bit more next Spring? I don't need a very long stick...I'm not very tall, but I'm probably going to need a walking stick by the time our garden is clear of weeds. Just so long as they survive the winter without being blown away or rotting off!
                 
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