Frequently Asked Question

Normally not. This is a trial to study natural regeneration, thereby we do not want you to alter local weather conditions. Even if it is sad for you to see your seedlings dying, remember that we are searching for future seeds that will be able to survive climate change at your growing site. 

PS: If you couldn't resist and watered your seedlings, please inform us and indicate the amount of water you used and where.

During the first year of observations, we recommend that you do not remove the seed protectors as the removal may lift up and unroot seedlings. Nevertheless,if you have an excessive growth of weeds that completely fill the seed protector, you may gently lift up the seed protector and cut the weeds with scissors. Never pull them out! From the second year, when seedlings have deeper roots, we may do weed removal by cutting them.

There are several reasons for these

1. This is a "security" measure to ensure that observations correspond to the provenance indicated in the form. Further, going in the order "as reading book" ensures that you don't forget any seeding spots. 

2. If a large proportion of the seed protectors were destroyed, it would still be possible to submit the observations for the seeding spots that survived the damage.

3. We also have to admit that we implemented the planting order of each garden to the form, however, "fetching" this data while making the observations would slow down the form considerable, so we did not implement it.

If you discover in the field hat a seed protector disappeared together with the label, click on "None" when the provenance is asked. Then click on "no seedlings" and take a picture of the place if requested. From home, please email us on info@mygardenoftrees.eu with the following content:

• Garden ID

• Date of observation

• Block

• Number of seedlings and their phenological stages

If there are alive seedlings, we will send you a new label and new seed protector.

If there are no seedlings alive, click on "None" when the provenance is asked. Then click on "no seedlings" and take a picture of the place if requested. This will allow you to pass quickly the phenology questions. If you know the animal that caused the damage, you may add this information in the comments section.

Click on the back button of your smartphone, and then click on "Save as a draft". Then, you can find your drafts in "Drafts" in the ODK menu.

Open ODK and click on "Delete form" at the bottom of the page. Select the forms you want to delete, and click on "Delete Selected".

We recommend you to open Enketo in Chrome or Chrome-based browser.

Open Enketo and click on the hook on the left of the screen (as step 8 here). You will see your draft forms that you can send us.