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My beet leaves are fusing together! Is this a Normal Thing? (Indoors, Boston, MA.)
This is a beet that I pulled out of the ground and potted up. The newest leaves at the center are sticking straight up and are fused together at the edges for the first couple inches. I don't have a photo of the newest development, but now all the new leaves form a fused ring around the meristem, so even newer leaves are growing into a small cavity they might not be able to get out of.
I suppose I should just chop off and eat these leaves so they don't strangle new growth, but is there something else I should be doing? What causes this?



i'm not sure i've seen this, but i don't think it is a problem. you could cut them or not. i do know that some of the beets i've harvested had multiple 'shoulders', like, groups of leaves were growing out of the beet at a few different places... suggesting i had not thinned well enough and a few small beets fused together. so maybe beets just like to fuse!
Oh, interesting! Maybe I will leave it be and see what happens. I'm pretty sure it's just on beet, though.
Truthfully I have no clue. Maybe chop off, so new ones can grow?