Apr 15, 2021
Drought Effects on Walnut and Irrigation Strategies
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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 […]