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it's rare to catch you in a mood when you're using upper and lower case and seem genuinely focused on a quest. I'm interested in the same issues of DED control--and I'm also going to be putting out an alternative to injections that could use public comments. If you go to; http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/details?patent_number=5148628 , you'll find a full text of something I did to save trees during a drought, I also planned to use it for disease treatment. (If the reply page chops up this URL address so you can't go right to it, then just copy in that same address manually,)
I apologize for the drawings, I paid a lot of money to a patent draftsman who just traced over my sketches (!) under a deadline that meant I couldn't chase him around with a stick. Now it's an eternal bummer.
The concept would seem quite counter-intuitive, but it works wonderfully well.
ABSTRACT: A method and apparatus for irrigation comprising a liquid-filled wall of flexible elongated tubing forming the boundaries and sealed containment of a defined and desired area which is then filled with an indicated or desired amount of water for irrigation and, additionally, with materials whose use includes but is not limited to fertilization, disease treatment, or experimentation. The tubing can be used alone as the sealed containment or to provide the transportation means for the irrigation water in addition to the sealed containment. Upon completion of percolation, the tubing is emptied, rolled up, and taken to the next use and location.
I also be interested in feedback to on both injection and my flooding alternative which would be the only direct answer that I can see to the problems of DED transmissions through root grafts. If people are interested, I'll publish a more informative explanation of how it works.
Yeah, you're right. I yam catching on.
Bob the W.