I wanted to share part of my letter to a crop researcher

[truedelphi]

It is in bold, then my comments are normal type:

Oh before I forget - one of the strange things going on, and whether this is on account of how pervasive the Glyphosate is in the area where I live (Unfortunately a golf course is on a hill higher than the hill I live on) or whether it is the chem trails, but strange things are happening with plants.

Last year the honeysuckle was honeysuckle at the main trunk of the plant, but some branches were honeysuckle and then poison oak leaves both. As if we had grafted the two plants together. And the tomatoes and the peppers - often the tomatoes will have tomato-like trunks and tomato leaves over about 75 to 85% of the plant, but then pepper leaves on the lower part of the plant. My girlfriend showed me some common weeds which are usually two separate plants, and now they grow on one plant (Neither of us knew the names of the two plants, but they are common weeds, and both of us know that when we were growing up, we never saw them together on one plant.)

Does that ring any bells for you?

I have to sign off, as tomorrow is an early morning.

Thanks again for your reply

C.S.

PS I have read Seeds of Deception, but not Seeds of Destruction, by Engdahl. Will definitely get it.

I am wondering if anyone in this forum has noticed this type of weirdness with their plants... Anyone offering a similar tale - it will be much appreciated.

[MineralMan]

1. Well, I'm trying to think of a mechanism that could cause

that, and can't come up with one. Do you have some photos or something of this? I doubt very seriously that glyphosate could have this effect.

[MineralMan]

2. OK. After some research, I found out that commercial

tomato plants are often grafted onto rootstock from other solanaceous plants. Usually it's on a eggplant rootstock, and it is done to make the tomatoes more successful in hot humid areas. So, that may be what you have there. It's not uncommon for branches to grow from the rootstock, and to have the characteristics of the rootstock. It's possible to graft a tomato on a pepper rootstock. So, if your tomatoes were planted from commercial potted plants, you could have one of these grafts, which would explain the non-tomato leaves on part of the plant.

It's a physical grafting process, and has nothing to do with genetic engineering.

I'm working on the honeysuckle example now.

[MineralMan]

3. As it turns out, honeysuckle is also a frequently grafted plant.

So, if the honeysuckle you have was planted from nursery specimens, it's likely it is also a grafted plant and you're seeing foliage from the rootstock. It's probably not poison ivy, but something that looks similar.

No genetic engineering, just commercial propagation technology using grafting.

It's interesting what you can learn on Google, isn't it?

[truedelphi]

4. Thank you for your replies.

The tomatoes were not from seedlings, but from little 99 cent containers found at the local Hardware place. And for all I know, the non tomato leaves are indeed eggplant, and not pepper leaves. So your explanation makes sense.

However the honeysuckle was grown from scratch.