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09 Feb 19 Lyn (New Zealand - temperate climate)

My first year JAs are well over 2 meters with no sign of flowers, have I given them too much water or does this mean a huge first crop?

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10 Feb 19 mike (New Zealand - sub-tropical climate)

I think you need to read the notes here. You eat the root in the ground - nothing to do with the flower I feel. Probably too much nitrogen and watering to have 2m plants.

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13 Mar 19 Lyn (New Zealand - temperate climate)

Thanks Mike, yes I know to eat the tubers [luv them, my Father always had them in the vege garden-many years ago] think from your answer I may have watered too much. Was hoping as they had grown so tall that the tubers would be more, but...... I have read somewhere since posting my query, that if one stops them flowering a bigger crop is produced?

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