Caly's Milestones

As my flowers prepare to bloom soon, one challenge that me and other plants up here have had to cope with is a relatively dry spring,...

Flower season is approaching! This year, following robust growth by my keiki over the last few months, several of my stems are developing...

Last week, we visited Caly and the monitoring system do some repairs and maintenance. As usual, the scenery eclipsed time on the climb up...

Last Saturday night (2/10) as Honolulu suffered with temperatures dropping to 64F (the Hawaiian “coolmageddon”), a few miles away...

The time lapses and live climate data that illustrate my life on top of a mountain sometimes fail to show the extreme weather native...

If you answered they are both from Hawaii, sorry but pineapples are from South America! Ok, another clue: What do Caly, pineapples and...

Behold the human laulau (a.k.a. Ryan Mudd) adjusting camera settings while hiding from the powerful glaring sun on Caly's ridge. But in...

Being a plant, I use visible light from the sun as my energy source to harvest carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turn it into my...

A year ago, we were out in the field working furiously to try to get our plantcam project set up after weeks of work up in the ridge and...

Check the animation below for the entire time lapse of this year's flowering and fruiting! Overall, it was not a great fruiting year, but...