"Bob Williams" wrote...
: The others I just stuck in a big pot with some mature plants.
: They did much better......Go figure.

Some plants benefit other plants. In addition, some plants require
bacterial support in order to reproduce, flower or even grow at all.

We all seem to know that beans create some sort of bacteria that
benefits the leaf growing nature of many other plants.

It was shown prior to 1975 that Arabidopsis thaliana gets corrected
of a thiamine deficiency by bacteria that supports the missing thi-
amine.

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/j...57565/abstract

There's a PDF link there to the full text of the article. I found
a reference to it in a book copyrighted 1975, Companion Planting
for Successful Gardening, under a section titled DNA.

--
Jim Carlock