Go find some mysteries about your plant. Explore your plant and look for some anomalies that raise questions. For example, my plant has some wounds and it has some pruning that has happened to it. To the right is a picture of some old scarring. The scar is in the middle of the limb bisecting the photo diagonally. I don't know how well you can see it in the picture. I wonder about the scars and pruning. Are they all related or separate incidents? I wonder what caused the wounds. Did the pruning happen because there were limbs so badly damaged they needed to be cut off? Or was the pruning simply ornamental? The wounds look like bad scrapes healed over. Did something strike the plant, such as a falling limb? If so, from what tree? How old are these limbs? Do they tell me something about the history of this plant's environment? For example, when a bad ice storm occurred. Do these wounds indicate the presence of a tree that once was there but isn't anymore? If so, I don't see any tree near enough to be a likely suspect for the damage? Or was it some human influence like a piece of equipment striking the tree? These are just some of the questions I could think of.
Find your mystery. Raise questions. Create possible story lines. Play them out in your mind and see if they seem likely. Where does your theory break down? What is it dependent upon to be true? What are at least three or four other possible scenarios? What information or observation would help you solve this mystery? Just work with one mystery and take it as far as you feel you can go today.
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