They were heavy, uncomfortable, and surprisingly poorly insulated.
The tree as it is can't be saved. It is fully girdled and it with die as is.
You can either purchase a new tree or have a little fun over the next few years.
The top of the tree is likely still alive at this point. So you can take cuttings from the top an with some rooting hormone start new trees from it. You can plant these directly into the ground once established.
The root is a different species and is also alive. If you cut off all of the grafted section the rootstock will send up new growth. Then next year you can take cuttings and grow the rootstock for a year.
In 2 years you can graft new trees like what you have. In another 3-4 years you'll have a tree the size of the original.
Farmers are price-takers not price-makers. The prices they receive are driven by speculation on the commodities markets (even for crops not traded on the market).
Since they can't control the price they receive for their crop, they are very sensitive to any change in the cost of inputs. Determining how much to spent on inputs is the part of their profitablity they can control. So widespread behavioral change is usually pretty close to immediate.
Farmers almost uniformly over-apply N fertilizer. Having it be more expensive and forcing them to look into more efficient ways of applying fertilizer and managing nutrients is not a bad thing.
"Allies" of the U.S. in the middleeast have a shitton of stockpiled patriot missiles from decades of buildup.
Ukraine needs those missiles to protect themselves from daily attacks.
The middle eastern counties need to stop using them on cheap drones but don't have Ukraines expertise in knocking them out of the sky with other methods.
War makes strange allies at times. Sort of like in WWII how the allies saved the Soviet Union under the genocidal Stalin.
Swirskii mites.
I have kept a mosteras for many decades. A few basics. The brown spots on the edges are usually too much water (causes N deficiency), salt buildup, or lack of fertilizer.
Watering, the pot should be saturated then allowed to completely dry out. Don't pay attention to the soil, look at the leaves. When the plant is drought stressed they have a slight dimpled look. The leaves appear duller and not as shiney. Salts- the are very sensitive to water softeners. Do not use water that has been softened.
Fertilizer - they do best with slow release fertilizers. For conventional fertilizer you want polymer coated. For organic you want manures aka something that takes time to break down.
Salt leaching- you need to leach the pots at least every couple of years. The smaller the pot the more often it is needed. Flushing a bunch of water through the soil removes salt buildup.
Pot size- ignore everything anyone says about pot size for monsteras. They always get rootbound in any pot but they don't care. You can grow giant ones in a 1 gallon pot. A larger pot = less frequent watering and fertilizing. For most of my plants life I kept it in an 2 gallon pot for ease in transport.
Light: monsteras are tree climbers. In low light conditions they grow away from the light looking for a tree trunk (small leaves with long internodes. If you want big beautiful leaves, they need 4-5 hours of direct sunlight. Preferably in the early morning or evening.
Honestly a simple drip irrigation system is how I would go. You can set them up with a timer on a garden hose. You can controll how much water each pot gets with the number and type of emitter. Its a lot more setup at the start but once it's installed they tend to work seemlessly.
My wife's fluffy white dog I drive around with for work. He likes to eat higher moisture corn and cow shit.
For silage corn the entire plant is harvested, chopped up, and packed tightly in a pile and covered with plastic or very large plastic bag. This creates an anaerobic conditions and yeasts/bacteria convert the sugars to alcohol, then acids. This acid preserves the feed for cattle for up to 2 years.
Silage corn is the most common base feed for all dairies and feedlots.
This isn't even the tallest variety out there. There are others that are 3' (1m) taller.
The machine with the spout is a chopper. They are a million dollar gigantic woodchipper. These things are fucking terrifying and you should absolutely stay out the field when they are running. Every so often a deer jumps into them.....shudder.... nightmare fuel.
Early in the season before a corn plant is waist high it takes a guess on how many kernals it can fill. Sometimes it guesses wrong and so it aborts the top kernals to fill the rest.
The entire top of the damn plant turns bright red.
As sugars build up in the top of the plant with no place to be transported to, the upper leaves start to turn bright red and die back.
You may get a bar bell ear or there may be no ear on the plant. In of field of millions of plants a bright red top narrows the search down.
Start getting your pinky in shape with this weird environmental triggered trait. It's easy to find in any corn field (to be continued...).
This right here is 350bu/acre of corn. 113 day variety on an almost pure sand field. Every damn ear looked the same. Look at that beauty, every kernal is huge and dense.
This here is trichoderma ear rot in an organic field. This 100 day variety was chewed on by an earworm. The damaged kernals allowed trichderma to enter and infect the ear. This ear rot produces many toxins and is a big no for consumption.
The twist - Trichoderma is usually a beneficial organism in the soil. It feeds on other pathogenic fungus/bacteria and is applied extensively for biological control.
Although normally a secondary pathogen, it has mutated to become a primary pathogen in both Italy and Germany in recent years.
This here is a genetically susceptible 113 day variety to fusarium kernal rot. This is a nasty little fungus that produces all sorts of mycotoxins that can give any mammal that consumes it a belly ache or even death. It's easily identifiable by the white streaks in causes in the kernals.
This 98 day little minx has a flirty pink cob. It doesn't look like much but it packs quite the wallop. The ears posted yielded 302bu. Medium high ear placement and a fast drydown makes this an excellent choice for grain.
This is pretty little 102 day number with a bright white cob that threshes very easily. It does extremely well for dry grain, high moisture grain or earlage.
The field in this picture averaged 305bu.
Probably the easiest plant to care for once you figure it out.
I water it every month or two. Fertilize it every 2 or 3 years. Redirect the arial roots into the pot when I water.
It gets 3 hours of direct sunlight in the morning.
Every 5 or 6 years I haul it outside in the summer. Then leach the pot with the garden hose to remove the salt buildup. I also hack the plant back to a more manageable size.
Veiwers who have worked with a lot of PhD's:
So they are going to make a extremely complicated evil plan only to be foiled by obvious oversight that only an idiot would miss.
They also need to remove the limited liability from companies for intentional illegal activities.
illegal business practices should be charged to the people involved instead of the company. The executives who made the decision to break the law lose personal assets.
Otherwise the shitheads just pass the company losses onto the employees: no raises, hiring freezes, layoffs, reduction in benefits, etc...
After the rapist Brock Turner was given a slap on the wrist, California passed mandatory sentencing for rape.
He was accused of 3 rapes but convicted of 2. He received the maximum sentencing for each.
His lawyers are likely going to fight the conviction constantly until the money runs dry.
My personal thought is the conviction is unlikely to be overturned but a sentence reduction is likely. So he got the maximum sentence. Danny will likely be behind bars for at least 6-10 years for his crimes.
Fires an insane amount of small arm rounds (standard sniper) in a short amount of time (up to 6,000rpm). Also has an effective range of around 1,000m.
Compared to flying around in an old Yak-52 trainer and shooting at them with an ak-47, yeah it's a wee bit better system.