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This is a mystery.
I live in East Arizona, just west of the Superstition Mountains, we get lots of hut dry summer here.
About a month ago I bought some crossvine plants and planted these close to a chicken wire fence, each "plant" was actually three tall thin vines all planted in the same pot, with their own bamboo stick.
These have been developing nicely getting watered every other day or so, growing new shoots like a vine should.
Yesterday afternoon I was just walking near them when I noticed one appeared to be wilting, as I got closer I saw lots of leaves on the ground and started to wonder if something had somehow poisoned the plant or something odd.
Then as I got quite close I was shocked to see what looked like the stems had been cut with a tool, like scissors or something.
Here's a picture, one of several I have:
You can see clearly several places that show a stem apparently sliced, two of the tree vines in that group had been cut, low down, around eight to ten inches above ground level.
It is close to inconceivable that a human did this, my house sits on a 1.5 acre parcel, as do the neighbors, the yard is fenced on the sides tall metal railings, the rear is an eight ft brick wall.
The neighborhood is very quite, no children, cul de sac, the neighbors are people like me, in their 60s, nobody ever bothers anybody, nobody would enter anyone's yard because this is Arizona, Castle Doctrine, everybody is armed.
Furthermore the are has no street lights, this is a county island, very quiet, very rustic, it is just inconceivable that a person would access my yard and wander over to a small vine plant in the dead of night and do this.
But the way the stems appear cleanly sliced strikes me as not what I'd expect from animals, there are rabbits around here but I'm not familiar with the kind of damage the can inflict.
Here's another picture:
That slice, cut you can see just as it passes in front of the bamboo near that black band on the bamboo, is at a height of about 14 inches from the ground.
There is another set of three vines (came form another pot) planted about eight feet along the same fence, it is unharmed.
Could a rabbit cut the stems like that? or is this a real mystery?
I live in East Arizona, just west of the Superstition Mountains, we get lots of hut dry summer here.
About a month ago I bought some crossvine plants and planted these close to a chicken wire fence, each "plant" was actually three tall thin vines all planted in the same pot, with their own bamboo stick.
These have been developing nicely getting watered every other day or so, growing new shoots like a vine should.
Yesterday afternoon I was just walking near them when I noticed one appeared to be wilting, as I got closer I saw lots of leaves on the ground and started to wonder if something had somehow poisoned the plant or something odd.
Then as I got quite close I was shocked to see what looked like the stems had been cut with a tool, like scissors or something.
Here's a picture, one of several I have:
You can see clearly several places that show a stem apparently sliced, two of the tree vines in that group had been cut, low down, around eight to ten inches above ground level.
It is close to inconceivable that a human did this, my house sits on a 1.5 acre parcel, as do the neighbors, the yard is fenced on the sides tall metal railings, the rear is an eight ft brick wall.
The neighborhood is very quite, no children, cul de sac, the neighbors are people like me, in their 60s, nobody ever bothers anybody, nobody would enter anyone's yard because this is Arizona, Castle Doctrine, everybody is armed.
Furthermore the are has no street lights, this is a county island, very quiet, very rustic, it is just inconceivable that a person would access my yard and wander over to a small vine plant in the dead of night and do this.
But the way the stems appear cleanly sliced strikes me as not what I'd expect from animals, there are rabbits around here but I'm not familiar with the kind of damage the can inflict.
Here's another picture:
That slice, cut you can see just as it passes in front of the bamboo near that black band on the bamboo, is at a height of about 14 inches from the ground.
There is another set of three vines (came form another pot) planted about eight feet along the same fence, it is unharmed.
Could a rabbit cut the stems like that? or is this a real mystery?
