Many years ago, I had a set of notes on exactly what weather conditions caused garden plants to go dormant in the spring and fall (and therefore which ones Tempest could be set to avoid to prevent this). I no longer have the computer this was on and I can't locate any of the files, so I'm wondering if anyone knows more about this.

I believe that it was temperatures above/below a certain value at a certain time of day, but I can't find any information about it online any more.

If anyone knows the exact circumstances that make the plants go dormant, or still has links to discussion about this elsewhere, I'd really appreciate it. I do understand how weather settings in Tempest work, I just can't figure out what temperature settings will keep my plants from going dormant.

(I'm happy with my plants being dormant all winter, which I know happens regardless of temperature; I'm only concerned about the temperature-dependent dormancy in spring and fall.)

Thanks!

lytefoot wrote: ↑

June 29th, 2023, 2:11 pm

I believe that it was temperatures above/below a certain value at a certain time of day, but I can't find any information about it online any more.

I found this old topic of ours that you may find helpful, particularly Chain_Reaction's post towards the end of the thread.

chatterbox/topic3084

Thank you! I think that thread was part of what I was thinking of; the frost level was definitely one key piece of information I was missing.

I also do remember the problem with the trees and relativity, I'm happy working around that.

Does anyone happen to know how the frost level is actually calculated? If I remember right, it stays at 0 if the temperature is above freezing around the clock for long enough, and stays at 1 if the temperature is below freezing for long enough, but if the temperature fluctuates around freezing, what determines it?

The effect I remember being able to get was splitting spring into two parts, with plants reliably staying dormant for the first part of spring while temperatures hovered around freezing, then never going dormant again in the second part of spring when the temperature was consistently warmer. But everything I try now has them switching back and forth all the time, in that wonderful and exciting way that makes them grow harvestables that get stuck.