after an inordinately wet june the summer has dried out...i believe i covered what i was watering and what i wasn't and why in an earlier post...the gamagrass was in the "not watering" column and it is beginning to show signs of serious water stress...yellow and brown leaves everywhere ( which is probably alright since the univeristy wants it dead anyway ) and the stems with the seed heads have begun to lower to the ground, extending the seed as far as possible from the parent plant...but the seed, for the most part, is still green and not nearly ready to shatter...so the mechanism is probably responding to a dearth of water rather than the season's true end...there is rain in the forecast but i don't know how far that will go in reversing the plants' attempt to disperse seeds...i did retrieve some mature seed from the ground...but the maturation of the seed is cyclical anyway...some is done which isn't surprising since seed production has been going on since june...older heads shatter first...there seems to be a climatological glitch in the system...it's a native so it should be adapted to the climate...but it seems to be hurrying the season along.
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