Dear All:
Color coding is useful. Of course one can give one color to
South Africans, another for Californians, and so on. In our case, we have
used them for 15 years and have solved a lot of problems. Our main one is
that we have year round rains (a blessing for normal plants tho) and with
thousands of pots it could be easy to leave a dormant plant uncovered and
thus lose it to rot. Therefore, we use only two colors, green labels for
winter growers (of course, summer dormant) and orange labels for warm
growers (and of course winter dormant). Labels are the vynil ones they sell
in the States which are the best material and last for several years, six
years being an average, not sensitive to UV but sensitive to extreme heat in
which case they become soft and deformed. Red labels (of the same material
and of the same brand) were too brittle and blue ones too bright to read
what was written on them. What we obtain from this double coding is that
all plants of the same cycle are exposed to the weather when needed and on
the contrary the others are protected.
Regards
Alberto