I definitely want that ‘sprouted’ ;) I think it is important to be able to record under what conditions it sprouted: indoors/outdoors, covered/uncovered, temperature. Maybe we could also record when the little sprout was moved to its final position (outdoors).
This is all very exciting, thanks guys!

For fruit trees: breaking of dormancy.

I want to track harvest but I’ve been waffling about how to do so. There’s the date that you can first harvest your first fruit, but the last date is also important (esp. with tomatoes here….) Yield is also something I’d like to track in some way but it’s not easy to make generic for a form. I don’t plant in acres so I can’t track it the way a farmer does. Yield per plant would be good except I only have one entry for the several snow pea plants I’m growing, for example. Germination rate is another one. Also survival percentage. How many plants made it from transplanted starts all the way to harvest? How many succumbed to slugs? To damping off?, etc.

Here is where my ephemerals can go!
They typically have this cycle: emergence, bloom, die down, dormancy. How could we best show that?

Examples of this would be daffodils, Virginia bluebells, and some amaryllis.

I would prefer dormancy ended. As soon as theres any sign of life[bud,shoot,whatever] its come to the end of its dormancy period…

For perennials – ‘divided’(and number of new plants) or ‘moved to’ would be quite useful.

I’m not remotely an expert on this stuff, but I’d say that when dormancy ends is probably more important to note than when dormancy starts. And I call that “breaking dormancy”.

I don’t know if it make sense to add “Purchased” and “Sown” to the list. I like to keep track of these event in my journal…

One I would love to see added is Showing Roots, or Rooting, for cuttings that have finally produced roots. I use sprouting right now, but it isn’t quite the same thing, and I am afraid it might tweak the data for germination times globally.

It would also be great if you could either add a Received to the list, or amend it to say Purchased/Received. It seems weird to me to enter Purchased when I get plants from friends or bring home cuttings, but it is the same sort of event from the point of view of the plant.

Thanks for all you do. I love this place. :)

I vote for Rooting too. I do a lot of cuttings now that I have finally learned how to get them to root properly.