Maurice - Thanks for sharing some of the articles you found. I was not able to go to the link with the full article. It just circled right back to your NGA post. Not sure why that happened.
I agree too, that "eye" is probably each fan.
Brenda - Reading the effects of root knot nematodes in those articles that Maurice posted, the bad nematodes can often cause smaller increase and smaller fans. So I am sure that is why I never seem to get nice sized clumps like many on this forum.
I will say that I was surprised that the northern states have issues with these nematodes too. I honestly thought it was a southern issue because we do not have ground freezing temps in winter that might kill them, but apparently not! So this nematode issue could happen in northern states too. Interesting, to say the least!
