Round 1: Author Response to Reviewer 1 We would like to thank the reviewer for taking the time to do a thorough review of our paper.
If I understand correctly, there are six important length scales in the problem, the size of the domain DH , the spacing between trichomes 13 ρ − , 0 , , L l αν ζ = Θ, and the trichome length L = Nl (also denoted L in the manuscript), giving five dimensionless numbers. However, in the non-dimensionalization, the authors state that there are only two parameters: ρ and Nl γ θ = . Unless I am mistaken, there are additional parameters like l/L, Nl/D, and N that the authors hold fixed but may influence the details of the numerics.