Dec 21, 2021
FloraPulse Validated By Top Scientists!
Cleartail Admin
FloraPulse validated as most accurate against competitors! Great news! The world’s expert on plant water status, Professor Ken Shackel, presented very convincing validation data on FloraPulse at two recent events: The Almond Conference, and the Tree Nut Conference. Two other well known academics—Isaya Kisekka and Luke Milliron—also showed excellent results and spoke highly of FloraPulse. […]
Nov 01, 2021
FloraPulse Coming To Tulare, Stanislaus, Fresno And Sacramento
Cleartail Admin
Come learn about the best irrigation advice: the gold standard water potential, without the pressure bomb pain. California Tree Nut Conference – Tulare, CA – November 3rd. Tree & Vine Expo – Stanislaus, CA – November 9th Grape, Nut & Tree Fruit Expo – Fresno, CA – November 12th The Almond Conference – Sacramento, CA […]
Oct 05, 2021
October Updates
Cleartail Admin
FloraPulse is reaching the globe: 12 countries and counting! Things have been moving at warp-speed! We continue making sales around the globe and customer feedback on our water potential sensors has been excellent. Here’s a bit more good news: New user interface We are rolling out a new user interface. Our software uses online weather […]
Jul 09, 2021
July 2021 Update
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Hundreds of units sold in the USA and internationally This year FloraPulse sold hundreds of units to growers and scientists in the USA and internationally (Spain, Italy, Germany, Italy, France, Portugal, Australia, Canada); we are literally getting data across the world. Two thumbs up from scientist! Professor Kenneth Shackel from University of California Davis gave […]
May 18, 2021
FloraPulse featured in Revista del Campo
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The FloraPulse technology was featured along with our Chilean partner OLIVOS riego in Revista del Campo magazine! Thanks to our partner and the publisher for the honors. FloraPulse continues to grow in Chile 🙂
May 04, 2021
FloraPulse one of four finalists in Sacramento Kings Capitalize competition
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FloraPulse has placed as one of four finalists in the Sacramento Kings Capitalize competition! We are on track to help growers across CA and worldwide make billions more in fruits and nuts, and save trillions of gallons of water. Vote for us and let’s revolutionize irrigation together. Vote at this link: https://www.nba.com/kings/capitalize For posterity – […]
Apr 15, 2021
Drought Effects on Walnut and Irrigation Strategies
Cleartail Admin
FloraPulse is currently developing a microtensiometer system for walnuts. It’s been a tough nut to crack, but we are making progress and might have ‘walnut ready’ FloraPulse systems for sale next year. In the meantime, I wanted to share some irrigation guidance on walnut from the excellent UC ANR guide (reference at the end). For […]
Apr 01, 2021
How FloraPulse achieves good sensor-tissue contact during installation
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The greatest source of variability in the measurements of stem potentials with the FloraPulse microtensiometer is the variation in the contact between the sensor chip and the xylem of the plant. The xylem is a complex tissue made up of elongated, active water pipes of varying size, older inactive plugged pipes and additional living generally […]
Mar 20, 2021
Should the FloraPulse microtensiometer agree with the pressure chamber?
Cleartail Admin
The Scholander Pressure Chamber, aka “pressure bomb”, has become the standard for measuring the water potential of plants, whether as exposed or shaded leaves, or as internal stem potential at a point of measurement. Leaves under natural conditions can be measured; but if leaves are bagged in plastic bags with foil to stop transpiration and […]
Mar 18, 2021
Drawbacks of ET irrigation scheduling
Cleartail Admin
A recent irrigation seminar from the University of California and the Almond Board discussed various methods to determine when/how to irrigate crops. There are 3 main methods: weather-based, soil-based, and plant-based. The most widely used method is weather based evapotranspiration (ET), which estimates the amount of water used by the plants. ET serves as a […]
Mar 05, 2021
Two years of 24/7 water potential – Napa Valley Cabernet
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FloraPulse sensors have been installed for almost two years in a high-end vineyard in Napa Valley. They still show great, accurate stem water potential readings. This is the longest continuous water potential dataset ever recorded. You might be tasting this wine in a couple of years! First irrigation block 24/7 water potential data This graph […]
Mar 05, 2021
FloraPulse sensors in Chile! Prune, cherry and grape.
Cleartail Admin
For the curious, here is data from FloraPulse sensors installed with our partner OLIVOS riego in prune, cherry and grape. The sensors were installed in Chile and have been running splendidly for 2-3 months now, and compare favorably with the pressure chamber. Plots below show the midday stem water potential (midday SWP, black lines) data […]