I know it’s been a topic that’s been brought up time and again on the forums, but the issue of users not marking observations of cultivated plants is really, really starting to get on my nerves. I go through hundreds of them each week, and I’ve barely even scratched the surface. Not to mention the (…

It’s not possible and in fact it’s bad for iNat, it’s community based, if everyone starts uploading everything iders will just leave, they already face a lot of problems shown in this topic.

Almost impossible for software to force a solution, when even the few people on this thread don’t completely agree.

I work on forest issues. Far too many of the trees in the forest are from plantations after the forest was clear cut. So how do you deal with the fact that many trees are not of native stock. Have been in the forest for over 100 years? There is a plantation of sequoias that are now 120 years old tha…

absolutely! We have here in NZ, large tracts of land that are original old growth forests, literally never touched. We have some reserves that are near to town, which used to be farms with a couple old trees still standing, and they have been fenced off and re-vegetated back to close to what they we…

On that note, I have had a bit of frustration recently in which I check the “captive/cultivated” box, and the system unchecks it. After several attempts, I have to go to the Data Quality tab and do it there.

[image] jasonhernandez74: I check the “captive/cultivated” box, and the system unchecks it If you can consistently replicate that behavior, please submit a separate bug report here on the forum.

[image] lynnharper: commonly cultivated species that definitely do not escape to the wild Except that it often takes decades for a species to establish in the wild, and one of the most interesting functions of iNat is facilitating, through comments and further enquiries, the first identificat…

True! I do see one of the potential uses of iNaturalist to be plotting the history and spread of species that are newly established and reproducing in the wild. For example, I live in Massachusetts, where pawpaws (Asimina triloba) do not grow naturally. I planted three pawpaws in my backyard 15 yea…

Quote: I check the “captive/cultivated” box, and the system unchecks it. When I see this, it seems to be a timing issue. And often it resolves itself. If I check “cultivated” and then identify the plant, the check mark in the “cultivated” box disappears. For me, though, it comes back when the …

I strike this too, especially when applying multiple annotations, like sex and lifestage… Set the adult, it may or may not come up straight away, but even if it does, selecting male then makes the lifestage value disappear… The “instruction to set” has been sent to the server, so I just move on to t…

Absolutely tired of plants not marked as cultivated - Solutions welcome

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jdmore April 6, 2021, 4:49am 64

If you can consistently replicate that behavior, please submit a separate bug report here on the forum.

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Absolutely tired of plants not marked as cultivated - Solutions welcome

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