plant.addBaseStemShoot() > How to set max_age and how to do makePlantDormant(plantID)?

[jandleuven]

@bnbailey-psl
I am trying to create an apple tree in a commercial orchard where trees are planted in a row at a distance of only 1.5 m. I can use the apple plant library but must create an age-zero tree with a very different shape than the 'trunk with 4 scaffold branches' model in the apple plant library. That is because apple growers will prune the tree to a very different shape. I managed to do so with plant.addBaseStemShoot(), but I run in two limitations:

1. Plants created this way seem to have a maximum age of 1000 days. In the function PlantArchitecture::buildAppleTree() in PlantLibrary.cpp this is overruled with:

plant_instances.at(plantID).max_age = 1460;

Is there a way to also do this from python for my custom-built apple tree?

2. And how can I make my plant dormant from python, just like is done in that same function in C++

makePlantDormant(plantID);

[bnbailey-psl]

Thanks for flagging this.

1. This is true, and was not exposed either on the c++ or python side. I've fixed it, but it required a c++ change, so it will need a Helios release that will then get merged in the next PyHelios version.

2. This was not previous wrapped in c++. I've added the bindings, which will ship in the next PyHelios version.

[jandleuven]

Thanks very much!