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>>15152238
Because it is not documented and mentioned and no protocoll exists?

If you do a experiment you document everything.
The hypothesis.
The methodology.
The variable.
And the control experiment.
Not doing a protocol means it has not been done.
> but the dog ate my homework

A scientific method for experimentation requires the variable that is the presumed cause of the phenomenon to be tested.
Meaning: If the presumed cause of an phenomenon is really the single cause, then leaving out the causal variable away should not induce the effect
(in this case a Virus or Parasite in the decaying plant leave, then it should not be in a healthy plant leave.)
This is called the: Null hypothesis.

So you would also grind up a healthy leave, mix it with water and inject it in the same fashion into a plant leave, to exclude :
> the invasive unnatural procedure itself is harming the plant
> the plant chemicals themselves (like alkalic compounds and nicotine) causing issues because the typical way of transmission is not injection
> if the procedure itself without any sick plant causes the same issues in the experiment
> then the procedure is faulty and another procedure has to be found

The scientific method requires you, to exclude you messed up your experiment by the nature and make up of the experiment.
Or lets say to not fool yourself.

Example:
> Hypothesis: dandelion kill mice
> to prove that dandelion kill mice i will take a mouse and a dandelion and put them into a 100% hermetically sealed 20cm x 20cm container for 10 days, so no outside poisons can come in.
> 10 days later I look inside and the mouse is dead
> I proved my hypothesis

If you are smart you would ask?
> 10 days in a small hermetically sealed container? didn't the mouse just suffocate?
And you would demand doing the same experiment but without a dandelion to check if the design of the experiment actually killed the mouse