OK, for the academically enlightened we'll refer to them as Giant Ragweeds but we all know they really are called horseweeds.  I never have been able to figure out why you guys up in the black ground have so much trouble raising healthy ones.  I mean, I've seen spindly little ones in McLean County, but they were just runts.  You get down here in the southeastern part of Illinois and we regularly grow 12-14 ft tall ones.

Reminds me of a cousin of Dad's from "up north" (Coles County) who was down one day riding around looking at crops.  They came upon a patch of healthy horseweeds and he goes "WHAT IN THE #%^^ IS THAT? "

Anyway, I was out walking around in a corn field this evening when I noticed that any horseweed over 10 ft tall was falling over.  In fact, if it weren't for the morning glories they ALL would have fell over.  Does anyone have a recommendation to improve the standability of my horseweeds?