Around 4pm, the weather was 47°F with mostly sunny skies. Winds were up to 8 mph, and it had just snowed about 6 inches the night before. Today's sun had melted all the snow off of the amur honeysuckles, and they all survived (unlike many other plants nearby). Each of the 4 plants seem to be showing equal phenophases. The only difference from last week's observations is the lack of breaking leaf buds. It seems they have all broke into full leaves. Honeysuckle #3 may have endured some minor leaf loss from the snow, but the canopy coverage is still about 50-75% and the increasing leaf size also remained at about 50-75%. There are still no flower buds/flowers in sight. (Each of these pictures were taken by observer Travis Mitchell) Amur honeysuckle #1 (Lonicera maackii) Amur honeysuckle #2 (Lonicera maackii) showing showing some increasing leaf size. about 50-75% canopy coverage Amur honeysuckle #3 (Lonicera maackii) seems Amur honeysuckle #4 (Lonicera maackii) Showing to have lost some leaves during the snow storm it's increasing leaf size.
the previous night.
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The Amur honeysuckles still had about 10-100 breaking buds on each plant. They had a canopy of around 50-75% increasing leaf size, and filled the canopy around 5-25% with leaves. However, there were no flowers or flower buds on any of the Amur honeysuckles. The weather was very sunny with winds up to 15 mph and a temperature of 44° F. Snow was covering the ground for 4 days prior to the observation The amur honeysuckle is showing a lot of activity compared to that of the surrounding vegetation. The growing leaves seem to be weathering the cold temperatures well because I did not spot any that were damaged. There are still large areas of the plants that are showing slower growth compared to other areas, like development is done in groupings as opposed to development as a whole. Amur honeysuckle-1-3 still had breaking leaf buds while the other areas showed full leaf out. The smallest of the observed amur honeysuckle-4 showed the least in development diversity stages. The entire plant of 4 develops as a whole. The most interesting observation I made was on plant 3. The right side of the plant shares space with another unobserved amur honeysuckle and it is the right side that shows the slowest development in growth. Weather: 49 degrees Fahrenheit, generally overcast. The average weather for the week has been mostly cooler in the mid 30’s. On the 7th there was a 0.2 inches of perception. Amur Honeysuckle-3 (Lonicera maackii) whole plant to show the left side developing at a faster rate than that on the right side on 3/10/18. See the bright greens of full leaf out and increasing leaf size on the leaf that is lacking on the right which still has bursting buds. (photo taken by Karissa Aly).
On March 4, 2018 at 11:16 am observer Jared Crotts went and estimate the phenological phase development of the four Amur Honeysuckles. The weather was partial cloudy skies with a temperature of 46°F at 43% humidity, and 0% precipitation. One plant was noted to have dead new growth leaves present (fig. 2). Appearance in the switch between breaking bud and increasing leaf size. Most of the plants were experiencing primarily increasing leaf size from 50-74%. There was a partial breaking bud as well at around 25%. No flowers were present.
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