The Great Cucumber Experiment (cont)

Deeay 5 in the Cucumber House
Little has changed; the dimensions, length & circumference of the severed cucumber (cuc1) are still the same. The only barely discernible difference is a slight yellowing of the skin near the cut end.

but.......following a controversial hypothesis from NewShoot (a closet scientist if ever there was one) the experiment has taken a new lease of life. The theory postulated is that by cutting a cucumber in half its growing tip will have been removed & will not therfore continue to grow. What would happen if a juvenile cucumber (cuc2) was semi-severed ? Would the half with a tip continue to grow ?

...to be continued