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KikkyMonk

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Tower Cap Forests?
« on: April 21, 2007, 08:54:00 am »
Do subsequent floodings of your underground forest kill the young tower caps? I have a lot of muddy ones but have never had any mature.

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Slartibartfast

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Re: Tower Cap Forests?
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2007, 09:52:00 am »
I'm pretty sure the answer is no.
Perhaps you've never seen a mature one because they take 3 years to mature?
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Re: Tower Cap Forests?
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2007, 02:10:00 pm »
Slartibartfast is correct. I had a tower-cap forest that I flooded every spring and after three years I had mature tower-caps. So don't worry, they won't drown.
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Re: Tower Cap Forests?
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2007, 07:05:00 pm »
Some trees and shrubs (mostly shrubs) do die from flooding, but yes, mostly it's because it takes three years for them to grow.
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Re: Tower Cap Forests?
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2007, 07:54:00 pm »
Shrubs have a very short life span - a couple of seasons at most. After that, they become dead shrubs. I doubt that the cave flood has any effect on a growing shrub.
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Re: Tower Cap Forests?
« Reply #5 on: April 22, 2007, 03:09:00 pm »
You're right, TotalPigeon, shrubs and trees alike just get muddy and turn brown when they get flooded. Since shrubs also turn brown when they're dead, it's easy to make the assumption that "flooding kills shrubs".
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