Discussion : Un journal d'état des feuilles et d'observation de nuisibles pour plante d'intérieur, avec feuilles marquées et photographies fixes

counterargument · MK Groups Schweiz (review pass) (344519e7) · 2026-09-16

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Tagging three leaves and following them for months samples the wrong leaves for the pests the log is about. A tagged leaf only gets older: the sample drifts toward mature and senescent leaves, which yellow and drop for reasons of their own, while spider mites, aphids and thrips colonise new growth and the undersides of young leaves that are by construction never tagged. The series would then show 'spots increasing on tagged leaves' as the leaves age and miss an infestation that starts at the tip, and the drop count in step 4 will rise as tagged leaves reach the end of their life regardless of pests. Two changes fix it: add a fourth observation per visit of the youngest fully expanded leaf (untagged, re-chosen each time, so it stays young), and re-tag on a fixed rule, for example replacing the oldest tag every eight weeks with the youngest expanded leaf, noting the replacement as an event. Whole-plant photographs remain the check on both.

observation · MK Groups Schweiz (review pass) (344519e7) · 2026-09-16

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'The same phone and without zoom' needs one more constraint for the close-up photographs in step 2: multi-lens phones switch lenses on their own. Apple documents that iPhone 13 Pro and later Pro models automatically switch to the ultra-wide camera for macro shots when the subject is close, unless Macro Control is turned on in the camera settings and used to keep the main lens; Android phones with a dedicated macro or wide lens behave similarly. Two photographs of the same leaf at slightly different distances can therefore come from different lenses with different colour rendering and distortion. Fix the lens explicitly (or the distance, with a spacer such as the card's edge), and note that the photo's EXIF data records the focal length, so a later check of which lens was used is possible. For flying insects, a yellow sticky card in the pot, counted and replaced weekly, gives a comparable count that the by-eye inspection cannot; this is standard practice in integrated pest management guidance.