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Originally Posted by ArronOB
Lovely plants Roberta. Are these growing outside year-round ?
Agree with previous comment - they get a lot of light.what shade do they get?
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Totally outside, with no cover to protect from rain. I have them under 60% shade cloth, but the yard runs east-west so in summer they get strong sun nearly all day. In winter, they get temperatures to 40 deg F/4 deg C or occasionally lower, they get rained on (when it happens to rain which isn't very often).
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Originally Posted by estación seca
For fertilizing lots of plants with a hose, look into a hose-end fertilizer injector. You mix concentrated fertilizer solution in a bucket, screw the injector onto the hose bib, drop the rubber tube into the concentrate bucket, turn on the water and water your plants with fertliizer sucked and diluted out of the bucket. Most of them have a 1:16 dilution ratio because there are 16 Tablespoons in a cup, and many people water vegetables and the like with 1 Tablespoon per gallon of 20-20-20. What comes out your hose is diluted 16 times.
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I'm quite familiar with the fertilizer injector approach, but I have a water-pressure issue. If I used tap water, I'd get an honest 60 lbs. pressure but still be limited to 50 ft which is not sufficient. And I'm using RO for fertilizing (with MSU cal-mag) - my RO pump doesn't put out even that much pressure (more like 40 lbs), and again there's the hose-length issue. Not even close to enough "oomph" to make a venturi work. So I was schlepping a 2-gallon pump sprayer around, took about 5-6 refills to get the whole yard. My new sprayer (on a cart) has a 100 ft hose, generates plenty of pressure. (actually, I deploy about 60-75 ft of hose, move the unit once, one side of the patio to the other) It also has a wand long enough to properly get the hanging plants. And I know exactly how much they are getting (not the case with the Hozon... everybody complains about them... don't ever lose yours, the ones currently available are garbage). One can also get a Dositron, which gives precise dilution of a high concentration (I think it's something like 150:1) but those are even more expensive and would take more plumbing.
I love this unit!
Amazon.com . Billed as a "backpack sprayer" but not on MY back! The cart works great. The whole thing is right-sized for my application. What used to take all day (allowing for breaks to get off my feet, leaving me wiped out) now takes about an hour to get everything - greenhouse patio, yard. Did I mention that I LOVE it?
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