Maybe elements are「grain plants for turtles」as scholars suggest, but if so they make no sense at all meaning AUTUMN, since turtles as carnivores do not eat grain, let alone in autumn. However, as「semen, seeds at the tip of a stalk, penis」with「turtle」and with the knowledge that the AUTUMN season is when the external ambient temperature begins to FALL (along with leaves) and cool, the elements make sense as the time when predominantly male turtles hatch (females counted for little more than pocket change in ancient China, unless highly trained and maimed lame). Turtles are ectotherms, meaning body temperature is determined to a large degree by the ambient temperature of their environment, and the animal's body temperature determines whether an egg develops into a male or a female: a higher temperature causes a female, a lower temperature causes a male. Therefore, in autumn, many more males are hatched than are females.
　「The thermosensitive, or temperature-sensitive, period (TSP) is the point during development at which sex determination occurs in temperature-dependent sex determination systems, such as those present in alligators and turtles. Occurring during the middle third of incubation, the TSP lasts for 7–15 days, [and is] species-dependent. The temperature must be maintained during this time for a certain sex to be determined. Often the differences between temperatures required to produce each sex are very slight and during the TSP, sex is susceptible to change with temperature. After this period, however, sex cannot be reversed…」
　　[　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-dependent_sex_determination 2013-09-21　]　
　See also https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180510203722.htm 2018-05-15.
　「Turtle, turtle head」is a Chinese euphemism for the glans penis wrapped in a wrinkly foreskin. Elements simply describe the「danger from gonorrhea while plugging multiple orifices with bent penis」as the elements individually depict, the constant FALL of sticky drops, the AUTUMN season of one's existence. See 秋 as「flaming burning from gonorrhea」while continuously dripping gleet, the FALL.「Seeds on stalk tip of turtle」: interestingly, turtles seem to masturbate unreservedly. See 丸 as a counter for turtles, and 鰲「sea life that masturbates.」
　Without a doubt, the Irish also have knowledge of their own to pass along in these trying times:「Masturbation will not spread coronavirus, especially if you wash your hands (and any sex toys) with soap and water for at least 20 seconds before and after.」Nonetheless and regrettably, unlike in dynastic China, it must be undertaken alone to truly be a preventative countermeasure but still achieve the desired result with some degree of safety.
　 　[　https://www.sexualwellbeing.ie/sexual-health/sex-and-coronavirus/ 2020-03-31　]　
　The Dutch, too have the same solution—it seems masturbation has become mainstream in the media the world over due to the coronavirus (it has always been 'the main stream' in reality, albeit covertly for most folks):
　「'Don't have sex with your partner if they have been isolated because of (suspected) coronavirus infection,' the RVIM says. 'Sex with yourself or with others at a distance is possible (think of telling erotic stories, masturbating together).'」
　　[　https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/dutch-official-advice-to-single-people-find-a-sex-buddy-for-lockdown-coronavirus 2020-05-16　]　
　Needless to point out perhaps, but Chinese shamans from antiquity hit upon the same solution as a pandemic preventative countermeasure, honed for ultimate client satisfaction by utilizing naked females with no-longer-integrated feet as masturbatory sex buddies available for short-term rental with erotic visualization of live prepubescent female genitalia engaging in autoerotic stimulation herself, as a solution to the same problem facing us now, but in pre-Internet days.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: old variant of 秋
Unihan extended: autumn, fall; year
EDRDG: autumn