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In grabbing at all available light, the canopy becomes the dome for
the tree's biosphere. The arch shape giving maximum surface area
for light, carbon dioxide absorption, water
etc. This biosphere cap serves many functions to staking and
protecting a tree system's territory. The canopy and the mulch/Soil
Protection work together many ways to keep down competing
seedlings by starving them for resources. This maintains more resources for the trees inside
the biosphere. sometimes even favoring the forest system's own
pollen (over foreign pollen's interfered with by the canopy seal), to
acclimate a family of trees to the local region more over the generations. |
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We must look
at the outermost reach on top and the slant down/trail underneath the
canopy as 2 different factors. Here,
the canopy's outermost reach, is also a downward trail for water. A Smart
Canopy delivers water wide, as it's umbrella slants down and
stretches. This puts less water shallow under the canopy and
close to the trunk. This limits growth of competing seedlings
close tot he tree.
Also, this draws the roots out wider; thus gives more leveraged
strength to the tree's support. The maximized canopy also
has more transpiration, needing more water, causing the roots to chase
water more. This need gives better rooting, along with the other
canopy functions; as part of a system plan. |
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The water
delivery favoring the extremes of wide and deep, encourages roots
reaching towards these extremes for the water source, as it keeps
other growths water starved. The
farther the horizontal distance from the trunk for the roots, the more leverage
of support the roots gives the tree.
The horizontal reaching roots can't get all their water just out of
their reach, so have to chase it deep too. The deeper roots vertical
length, give more strength to grab and "Hold" to soil. The
support comes from the deeper grab at the soil giving greatly more
hold at the soil for that root; which is then multiplied by how far
the root is from the trunk. So the farther across reach X deeper
reach gives tons more leveraged support, just by proper the water delivery. |
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A trimmed
canopy, shortens the reach, but also changes the angle of the run of
the branches too many times. The water following down, then
would stand more of a chance to delivering in closer to the trunk than
even the shortened canopy. This delivers close, but also, to
more developed roots, that can absorb more water before having to
chase it so low. This allows roots to not reach out for more
leverage, or deep for more holding power. Giving a short ball of
roots. People over watering ,
especially frequently enough to keep grass alive gives similar
results, though perhaps with wider root stretch. The light can come underneath the canopy easier to
encourage growth to nutrient competing grasses, seedlings etc.
Especially with the shallower water supply. In 1 move 2
functions limiting seed competition have been compromised inside the
tree territory, underneath the canopy biosphere. This is really
the mighty tree's territory, grass has no place on the feeding
grounds. |
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Mechanically: The trees in woods will
touch or nearly touch, to support and or restrict movement at the
tops; giving leveraged support far from the only connection at the
ground. The leverage of additional support to the roots, is
always in terms of distance from stump, the farther the better. Single trees can't avail themselves to this, so carry
weight lower and wider, and eventually reach towards ground; when the
reach of the branches would give meaningful leverage, in distance from
the only connection to ground (trunk forming pivot). Also
protecting it's ground too. |
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Protections of the
Biosphere Cap |
Light |
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The seedlings that do sprout, mostly just
absorb trace elements before the elements might be washed away, then
die and melt into the mulch bed to feed the tree. Lots of green area
for lots of energy absorbtion, storage etc.
cuts down on some foreign wind blown seed.
Perhaps gives some purity of local species, as the thick green cap
could keep out competing wind blown pollen etc.(?) As well as
mistletoe, moss invasions etc.(?) |
Trees Together |
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Biologically: Even as a single tree, the tree will
eventually try to grow limbs to the ground, that will protect the soil
garden. As above if the branches (trunks) die, they still stand
protecting the rest from invasion, by plant, beast, wind etc.!
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Single Tree
Application |
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On the other end of the protection of the tough
trunks are the leaves. The lush growth caps the biosphere,
sealing out competition for resources as well as preserving it's own
strain purity, acclimating generations to that specific woods
conditions quicker with 2 local parents. The biosphere cap
is the first line of defense against seeds to go competing plants, the
mulch bed is another barrier, then the quality of light, amount of
water etc. are all programmed to keep down competition for resources
inside the biosphere territory. |
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The extremes leverages of the tops; reaching
far before touching each other or the ground, giving more leveraged
support at those points to the stump/roots, as well as shading more
area of the ground; more leaf surface area too. So, the light
exists less dense in intensity, duration as well as broadness of
wavelength spectrum, by the super competitor, trees setting up their
territorial biosphere. |
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