"Stifled" plants consuming solids but not liquids

[BaloneyOs]

Plants that aren't growing will continue to consume dirt and phosphorite but don't consume (p)water, so you can't halt production of sleet wheats and pinchas by cutting off irrigation without wasting solids. You'd have to restrict the supply of solids as a method of control but with current storage mechanics that's a gigantic PITA and has far less precision compared to controlling irrigation.

Is the idea here to punish irrigation downtime for those plants in particular? For example, bristle berries don't have this problem since in addition to regulating liquid flow, you can remove illumination and they won't consume stored water during halted growth.

Anyone else feel as if this was entirely arbitrary design? It doesn't even make much sense from a realism perspective.

[MorsDux]

Its probably an oversight yet to be addressed. Until then you can lock the doors, use shutoffs and disable sweeper arms if you want your farm to stop. Might be a good idea to use 2 doors (parallel) and lock the one that lets dupes in so your dupes inside can still get out. 

[heckubis]

you could allways turn the extra food produced into dirt. limit the needed fresh stock for your kitchen and send the rest to a polluted o2 environment to have it quickly spoil and then compost it into dirt. this way you are producing dirt (bristles only take water and light) instead of downtime from your extra food production.

[Angpaur]

9 minutes ago, heckubis said:

you could allways turn the extra food produced into dirt. limit the needed fresh stock for your kitchen and send the rest to a polluted o2 environment to have it quickly spoil and then compost it into dirt. this way you are producing dirt (bristles only take water and light) instead of downtime from your extra food production.

How much a bristle berry weights? 1kg?

So to create 1kg of dirt you need to spend 120kg of water and some power. Doesn't sound like a good deal...