NCGS tag-scan questions
The steward or owner form that creates a tree individual from a consignment and a tag.
What it captures
- Produces: Tree individual, Agent role
Questions
Tree individual
- Which delivery did your trees come in? (required)
- The consignment the tree was handed over in.
- Help: Pick it by its date and site.
- What is the number on the tag you fixed to this tree? (required)
- The number on the tag fixed to this tree.
- Help: It must be one of the tags handed over with your delivery.
- Which species or cultivar is this tree? (required)
- The species or cultivar, from the consignment’s lines.
- Help: Pick the delivery first: the list shows the species that came in it. Pick it as written on your delivery list.
- This tree is reported as delivered only. (required)
- The tree was handed over to you at delivery, not planted by the planting team.
- Help: This form records a delivered-only tree. Later observations are retained in its history but do not make it eligible for scheduled survival rates.
- Choices: NCGS Strata: Delivered only
- Who looks after this tree? (required)
- Who looks after this tree, as an identifier and a role.
- Help: Say whether you are the owner (your own property) or a steward (someone else’s property).
- Have you planted this tree? (required)
- Whether you have planted this tree yet.
- Help: No if it is still in its bag, or you gave it away or lost it.
- On what date did you plant this tree? (required)
- The day you planted it; asked only for a planted tree.
- Help: The day you planted it.
- If you have not planted this tree, what happened to it? (required)
- What happened to the tree; asked only for a tree not planted.
- Help: Choose Still in its nursery bag only if you still have it unplanted. Otherwise select the option that describes what happened.
- Choices: NCGS Unplanted Tree Fates: Still in its nursery bag, Given away, Died before planting, Lost or stolen
- Did you mix compost or manure into the soil in the hole?
- Whether compost or manure was mixed into the soil in the hole, as the steward or owner says.
- Help: Yes only if it was mixed into the soil, not just put on top.
- Did you plant the tree at the same depth as it was in its bag?
- Whether the tree was planted at the same depth as in its bag, as the steward or owner says.
- Help: The soil line on the stem should be where it was in the bag, not deeper.
- Did you put mulch around the tree after you planted it?
- Whether mulch was put around the tree at planting, as the steward or owner says.
- Help: Keep the mulch off the stem.
- Did you paint the stem white?
- Whether the stem was painted white at planting, as the steward or owner says.
- Help: White paint protects the stem from sunburn.
Agent role
- Which person or organisation? (required)
- The enrolled person or organisation, never a name; the role they act in comes from their enrolment.
- Help: Pick them from the people register. Never type a name. Their role comes from their enrolment; nothing to choose.