Professional Watering Tips: Plants in Pots & Containers

In this video I'll share what I learned about watering plants in pots & containers as a professional grower.

Here's the full story of the watering "contest":

The owner of the nursery where I worked (John) had bought a watering tunnel, which did pretty much what you saw in the first pot. It attached to the end of the conveyor at shipping, and absolutely drenched the plants before we were to load them on racks. You saw how much water runs off the pot after the quick soaking. My guys on the load dock were pretty irritated by the "water park" this was creating in the loading area. Everyone was going home soaked!

The owner (who BTW is a great guy!) had 3 reasons for insisting on this: 1) he had paid for the watering tunnel, and wanted to see it used, 2) he thought it was the best solution, and 3) he didn't have to lift the pots on the loading dock!

The hero of this story is Paula, who was my boss at the time. If she thought the watering tunnel was doing a great job, I'm sure she would have gone along with the owner. What she saw was that it was leaving loads of water splashing all over the load dock, but she was still getting complaints from customers about dry plants.

So she challenged John to a contest. She asked him to prepare a couple of flats his way (through the watering tunnel) and also prepared a couple of flats her way (by watering the plants several times while still on trailers before labelling). She made good an sure that all pots were dry at the beginning of the trial. A day later, they went back and checked the pots.

John scratched his head at the results, but was gracious enough to remove that wretched watering tunnel the following day.
Morals of the story:
1) Don't be afraid to challenge upwards when you can back it up
2) Don't bet against the shipping manager when it comes to shipping plants!

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