Today (Thursday 3/30/2018), I monitored our group's five Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) shrubs at the Radford Bike Path site in Radford, Virginia. The weather has been varied this week from snowing 8 inches to being sunny and warm. Today it was partly cloudy with temperatures in the mid 70’s. Due to the heavy snowfall earlier in the week, some of our shrub bushes have damaged by fallen branches. The snow also appeared to knock down the remaining fruit on one of the multiflora rose shrubs. Most of the plants are almost finished with the breaking leaf bud stage, with some still having 3-10 breaking leaf buds on the plant. It appears that the plants have reached about 50-74% of leaf size and we expect to see them at full size in the next few weeks. Plants continue to cover about 50%-74% of the total potential canopy space. (Post by M. Howard)
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Today (Saturday 3/24/2018), I monitored our group's five Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) shrubs at the Radford Bike Path site in Radford, Virginia. Throughout the week, we have seen partly cloudy skies with a few days of snow accumulation up to 3 inches. Today it was overcast with a steady fall of snow expected to reach 8 inches. The high temperature today is 40° F and low is 30° F with snow expected to fall all day. It appears that some plants have begun to have higher numbers of breaking leaf buds again while others had very few if any. While more leaves have emerged on all the bushes, the majority of them were still small and increasing in size. In most of the shrubs, the leaves are approximately 50%-74% of the size they will be when fully grown. Plants are beginning to cover 50%-74% of the total potential canopy space. Two of our shrubs continue to bear fruit. (Post by M. Howard) Today (Friday, 3/16/2018), I monitored our sites five multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) shrubs at the Radford Bike Path site in Radford, Virginia. The weather was cool (43° F) with clear skies. Earlier in the week we got approximately 4 inches of snow. Warmer temperatures through the week melted most of the snow that had accumulated. Three of our shrubs have seen a slight decrease in breaking leaf buds compared to last week. The only other noticeable changes this week is that two of our shrubs have filled more of their canopy space compared to the weeks prior (now, 50-74%). These changes are most likely the results of former "breaking leaf buds" developing into leaves that have begun growing in attempt to reach their full size. (Post by D. Hardware).
Today (Saturday 03/10/2018), I monitored our group's five Multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) shrubs at the Radford Bike Path site in Radford, Virginia. Throughout the week, we have seen mostly gray skies and even some scattered snow flurries with temperatures ranging from the low 30s to low 50s with a forecast of snow, up to 6 inches, later on in the week. Today was overcast and cool with a high of 51 and a low of 35. Compared to last week, all 5 plants had a fewer number of breaking leaf buds, as most leaves have unfolded to expose visible leaf stalks. While more leaves have emerged on all the bushes, the majority of them were still small and increasing in size being, in most cases, approximately 25%-49% of the size they will be when fully grown. Because of this, most bushes still have leaves only covering around 25%-49% of total potential canopy space with the exception of one who's leaves are small but are appearing in bigger clusters than the others (covering approximately 50%-74% of total canopy space). Two of the five plants were bearing ripe fruit, however the fruits appeared to be more withered than they were during last weeks monitoring. (Post by T. Thompson)
On Saturday March 3rd, 2018, I monitored our team's five multiflora rose (Rosa multiflora) shrubs at our Radford Bike Path site in Radford, Virginia. It was a sunny, but cool windy day reaching a high of around 50°F. This week we've seen temperatures much lower than last week and have had a few very windy days. Since the previous monitoring, I noticed a significantly higher number of leaves on each bush. Leaves were covering approximately 25% or more of total canopy space on most plants observed. The majority of leaves present on all five plants have not reached their full size and are roughly 25% of the size they will be when fully grown. Two of the five plants bear small clusters of ripe fruit. (Post by T. Thompson) |
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