Took an exercise walk in the research orchard this morning and grabbed a shoot to see how the future dormant buds looked at this point in things. I saw new-to-me development so I'll have to go back to the same tree tomorrow to see if the same thing is happening on other shoots or whether this is just a weird one. #PlantMorphology #Botany

Had an early bud scale lined up on the dissection microscope and *could* have taken a photo, but I fumbled for a ruler for scale. And it flipped the teeny bud scale off, never to be found again.

Lesson learned. Take the imperfect photo first. A photo without scale is not ideal, but beats no photo at all. #Microscopy #PlantMorphology

When you've been up late at night going through your bud dissection photos...

#LOLPlants #PlantMorphology

During bloom time, I noticed a couple branches of an almond tree had flowers with a deeper pink color. I checked with my advisor about whether it was a sport because I couldn't see anywhere the rootstock had overtaken the scion. However, he pointed out it had to be the rootstock in this case.

Today I was out there and grabbed a leaf and a fruit to look at. #PlantMorphology #Botany #Horticulture

I've really cut down on leafout photography and need to shift to dissections of backed-up samples, but I went out today since I needed to go by there anyway.

I look at other Prunus species for comparison. This is an old Prunus avium. The two red dots are glands (I don't know whether they're considered petiolar or leaf at this location. I'd say petiolar.)

#PlantMorphology #botany #cherry

There's a very short depth-of-field in these hand lenses. So when I get the right sorts of photos that match, I use an app called Focus Stacker to put the focused parts of each photo together.

I take many photos of all sorts of almond vegetative buds, but there's one in particular that I was able to remember where i was and track it throughout its emergence. Now I'm looking at how long the stipules last.

#PlantMorphology #Almond #Botany

I don't have new fieldwork photos because of the very #DisabledInSTEM thing of being exhausted and getting more exhausted because of ableism and disability poverty.

Hopefully I'll have something soon, but I got most of what I needed from leaf-out already.

#Fieldwork #botany #PlantMorphology #almond

The two "bonsai" almonds in front of my trailer have sent out quite a few shoots after modest growth the previous two years. Perhaps it's the rain.

It was hard for me to try to catch the first extension on any of them. This is the closest I've gotten.

#almond #Botany #PlantMorphology

Got tipped off to an app called Focus Stacker. I was unable to get my iPhone locked off well while doing microscopy, but I tried it on some non-locked off hand lens photos I took and it did pretty well!

#Almond #Bud #PlantMorphology #Botany

I've got over 2.5k photos in one of my folders re my almond work since starting my Masters.

#GradSchool #PlantMorphology #almond

I *think* this was the 14x (though it could have been the 10x). You can see the glands on the bud scales of this cherry flower bud.

#bud #PlantMorphology #Horticulture

Didn't make it to the field, but that's a reason I have two almond trees in my trailer garden. Got a great photo of the initial cluster of leaves lengthening into a stem and more leaves.

#Almond #Horticulture #PlantMorphology

A developing almond fruit (the "nut" is the seed of this fruit), with the withered stigma and pistil in focus.

#almond #PlantMorphology #horticulture #botany

This may be the best leafout photo I've taken yet. It displays so much of what I'm trying to find out through observation.

#almond #PlantMorphology #botany

i'd already have this second one filled as well except the rainstorms made for two days where it was just too heavy to get out to the orchard and safely take the photos. So I just left in the other two from before. But that makes it easy to compare the growth.

#almond #bud #PlantMorphology

I'm wondering whether I can learn Affinity Photo well enough to correct for the angle in these photos as much as possible after the fact. When the buds were small, I could fit them both into the frame. But as they got larger, I had to turn the camera around more to get in there and get the photo. So it's not all the same "lean".

#almond #bud #PlantMorphology

Took this photo before a trespasser's dogs harassed me out of being in the field.

Very happy to have captured this one as it's in focus and from an angle that shows a lot of the developmental things that I'll be writing my thesis about.

#bud #almond #botany #leaf #PlantMorphology

Shallow depth of field with the hand lens on the iPhone lens makes it challenging to get all the features I want in focus.

I continue to take daily photos of almond vegetative buds starting to leaf out.

#PlantMorphology #bud #botany #leaf #almond

Shallow depth of field with the hand lens on the iPhone lens makes it challenging to get all the features I want in focus.

I continue to take daily photos of almond vegetative buds starting to leaf out.

#PlantMorphology #bud #botany #leaf #almond

Leaf bud emergence on the "sprawlmonds" growing potted outside my trailer.

I took photos in the field as well, but these plants are so small it's much easier for me to get the right angle on things.

#almond #bud #leaves #dormancy #phenology, #PlantMorphology #spring