Nah the time a tent is open to check leaf temps will not change leaf temps… air temps yes but leaf temps are impacted by root temps, air temps, light, wind etc.
Think of it this way stick a thermometer in the middle of a 1 gal pot and open your tent for 20 min will the temp change? Not a bit
Air temps are influential over time not immediateman!
Just to follow up. You are most definitely correct my man!
I trust your experience and recommendations and had to take another look, based on your statement regarding the capacitance of a leaf verses the capacitance of a pot of soil in regard to the ability of either to hold on to a temperature for any given length of time while experiencing varying temperatures introduced to the space, in an extremely fast rate.
Additionally, your statement about the sources responsible for leaf temperature (root zone etc.), which oddly contradicts with the statement at the end "air temps", which incidentally, I proposed as a source of confusion on how one could take an accurate accounting of Leaf Temperature in a tent without having to account for the extreme changes taking place very rapidly, while collecting data.
Sooooooo... to further support your posit, that opening the tent and exposing your leaves to a Lung Room temperature that is possibly 6 to 8 degrees less than your tent or Leaf Temperature, I did a little investigating. Here is what I observed.
Tent temperature is 74.4F
Lung Room temperature is 66F
Tent Leaf Temperature immediately after opening tent is 73F, on many leaves in many varied locations on two plants in tent. Time taken to gather data was less than 10 seconds. No observation of temperatures falling until around 20 seconds into investigation.
Tent Leaf Temperature at 30 seconds into test is 68F
As long as you collect the data in less than 20 seconds, you are good to go. No one should have a problem gathering this data. Now I gotta look into a better IR Gun.
If you hadn't responded to me, I would never have had the inspiration to perform such an investigation. Thank you sir!!!!
You are fucking right on point!!!