Suncalc... I'm using this to determine if I have full sun on several questionable places on our properity.

I'm putting in paw paws ( shade) and Persimmons ( full sun).

Plus on the edges we will fill in with a variety of local figs BUT I need to be sure there is enough sunlight to get good growing...

http://www.amazon.com/Luster-Leaf-1875-Rapitest-Calculator/dp/B002XZLLXU

Discuss..

Don't waste your money.  Make a sundial.  Stick a big bolt into a circle of plywood.  Watch it like a hawk... Ooooohhh we got a red hawk soaring outside.  Hope he gets my gophers!!

Suzi

waste of money for me. i know where i get full sun and partial morning/evening sun around my yards.

Ok I do have to go to work once in awhile. If I was independently wealthy to the point where I had all day to measure light intensity then I wouldn't need this $17 instrument

i occasionally have this thing called paid vacation :)

OMG you bought it?  Wow!

Wait hold on there is sun in Jersey ?
Plenty here rises in east sets in west. ; )

What else are Saturdays good for? spend the day meditating in the fig garden...

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Hi,

Still that device is handy to check that during the season a tree doesn't get shaded by rabbit-growing trees .
I had to cut back my peach trees last year as they were shading some fig trees and the garden. I was thinking it was the garden house but when moving the branches of the peach trees, I saw they were culprit - and my blackberry bush as well.
I removed half of the canes of the bb this year due to the observation I mad last year. This is sad and good, as normally, the remaining bb fruiting branches should put bigger fruits *hopefully* .

I'd say observation is better. The store I work at has Luster Leaf stuff returned all the time because it's cheap junk from China, sorry to say.

On sorta related note...apparently Osborne Prolific is shade tolerant. If some cuttings root I intend to test that in the lower yard amongst the PawPaw preserve.