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Originally Posted by MickyT
Thanks Carolyn for that great explanation, which of course leads me to more questions. Does this cycle continue all season and is it regular (3 days sexual then 3 days vegetative)? Does the amount of sunlight affect the length of the phases? When fruits have already set, do they grow and ripen during only one of these phases or simultaneously while the plant continues to cycle through them?
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"Vining crops like tomatoes produce vegetative and generative growth at the same time"
http://web.extension.illinois.edu/lms/eb107/entry_6973/
But Carolyn is talking about the early vegetative growth, before the plants start to produce flowers.
There is more info about the triggers for vegetative vs reproductive growth in the attached pdf by Dr. Merle Jensen.