7th January 2009, 10:02 AM
Surely perception of colour is an individual trait as well though? Many men are properly colourblind and wouldn't be able to use them at all. I have slightly different colour perception in each eye - it's not much, but enough to throw off a Munsell description occaisionally. When you add variables mentioned earlier in this thread like sunlight & cloud cover, soil moisture content, the fact that your Munsell Chart might have faded slightly etc., the whole "scientific approach-ness" of using a colour chart in the first place goes out the window. I thought this was why they'd been given up on. Far better to give a proper soil description as how you personally see it when it's dug.