Commentary for Menachot 139:1

דאמדינהו ועשרינהו ושתלינהו והוסיפה להו

<br> the ears of corn were tithed by conjectural estimate and the rest was resown and had increased in growth. And should you say that [in this case] we have no regard to the stock, so that the increase must be tithed, the question will remain, What about the stock itself? -Said to him Abaye, Wherein does this differ from ordinary wheat and barley? - He replied. In those cases where the seed decays I have no doubt at all; my question only refers to the case where what was sown does not decay. What is then the position with regard to this? - But surely this can be solved from the following statement of R. Isaac which he said in the name of R. Johanan: If a litra of onions was tithed and then replanted, the tithe must again be taken from the whole [of the growth]! - In this case it is the usual manner of planting. but in the former case that is not the usual manner of sowing. R. Hanina b. Manyomi put the following to Abaye. What is the law with regard to the growth in a plant-pot that was not perforated? - But surely if it is not perforated, it is not perforated! Perhaps you refer to an unperforated pot which was later perforated! -Here there is but one sowing and it has now become joined [to the earth] and is growing up, whereas in the other case there were two sowings! <br>

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