Fertilizer Pistol 🔫 ( portable hydro cleanser)

[Roberta]

Originally Posted by Ray

Done more for convenience and time-saving that what is best for the plants.

The orchids forgive. The only commercial nursery where I have spent enough time to see watering in action (where I have to get out of the way) is Andy's Orchids. There are sprinklers (actually, high-volume misters) that run automatically on a schedule - depending on weather anywhere from daily in summer to twice a week or so in winter, in the early morning. Everything including the ground is WET. (Adds humidity all day) Fertilizing is from a hose - lots of volume, aimed at the plants so everything gets a bath...not surgically applied to the medium, impossible with 3/4 of a million plants. Deciduous Dens, etc. don't get special winter treatment since they are in with the general population. They are mostly mounted so they dry out, winter watering is less frequent generally, and that seems to work fine. One certainly can't quarrel with the result.

One can be more surgical with a few plants. I don't have as many plants as a big nursery (After I leave Andy's with a full car and an empty bank account, the gaps aren't even noticed) , but I am far beyond the point of being able to give each plant individual attention. The plants don't seem to care.

This Amazon.com looks a lot like the sprayer that SADE shows, for those of us in the US. THis one is powered by a car battery (12V), there are other units that look similar, mostly for more money but still not bad, that use battery power.