Watering seed pots

Karl Church 64kkmjr@gmail.com
Thu, 02 Jan 2014 12:38:12 PST
Thanks for the referral, think I'll give'm a try. I also use blinds for
plant tags.
Karl
On Jan 2, 2014 12:03 PM, "Ellen Hornig" <hornig@oswego.edu> wrote:

> Persuant to a discussion a while back about watering cans for seed pots, I
> found something on eBay which I can actually recommend:
>
>
> http://ebay.com/itm/400124880017/…
>
> Yes, truly, they are little plastic tips that screw on to soda bottles.
> Don't snort in disbelief; the ones for fine watering work extraordinarily
> well on seed pots.  I wouldn't want to use one in a nursery - the thing is
> only about 1"/2.5cm across, so not built for volume or speed - but it seems
> to be able to water the finest seeds without the least perturbation of the
> surface.  You do have to squeeze the bottle to get it to flow - it isn't
> gravity-fed; but I actually love the thing.
>
> How times have changed.  When I owned a nursery I would have chuckled
> patronizingly at the thought of using one of these.  Now not only do I do
> that, but I'm down in the basement cutting vinyl blinds into plant tags.
>
> Ellen
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