Oh you getting back to growing again would be a terrific move. I hope it happens, that you start a journal for it, and that you drop a link here.
Fall has also definitely arrived up north. It’s full on pretty much daily rain and temperatures dropping into the sub 50s.
We got a little lightning and about 6 seconds of rain out of it..
That's going to be hard to watch...but it's for science!, so I'll keep watching...
We never get rain this early, and hardly ever get full-on thunderstorms. I'm sure it's some combination of Santa Ana winds and tropical moisture up from the south, but I'm no meteorologist!
We did better than that, but of course it all runs out to the ocean.
For science!
Thanks! If I remember I will do that on my next plant (which should be a joint grow with VG) around the same time I would normally top. We'll see.
Rain is what you're known for, so you have to protect that like the monarchy!
You can't protect something that's fading into obscurity while having zero relevance hahah
Toplessing?
When you took your turgid measurements (happy & fertigated) and marked or identified the measurement site and logged it down so you dont forget where it is, you that would give you a reading (not zero). Lets say you measure 50 degrees or 130 depending how the tool is held. Caplan tells us 50% change in the angle is our fertigation trigger, not 50 degrees of wilt. So if your turgid was 55 degrees a 50% change is 27.5 degrees.Here is the latest update as we sit back and watch the Sour G wilt! Watered on Sunday, so I'm calling this day 3 of drought.
And I have a question for @Maritimer: am I looking for a 50º drop from the 0 in this diagram? Caplan's paper doesn't have a diagram of after drought, just before:
The entire petiole is supposed to have dropped 50º from its starting point when measured from its connection to the branch? Do you have any pictures from yours with that angle that you can post here?
Dead leaves don't even have that kind of wilt from the branch, as you can see in this dead leaf on the plant:
Please clarify before I end up with all dead leaves!
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Toplessing?
Oh, that's something I definitely missed. Thanks for pointing that out!
It's a great drawing, but if my dead leaf doesn't wilt there, what does that bode for the living ones?
Great question Moony, and all I can say is "we'll see!"
not repeatedly, 1 drought starting week 7 lasting up to 11 days.
Dang. That sounds scary as hell! I'll just keep an eye on @InTheShed 's test I think lol. Does this technique only work outside or work under lights indoors too? I've seen plants destroyed after only 5 or 6 days without water 11 seems unachievable?
i have never ran drought outside.
