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[mIEKAL aND <QAZINGULAZA@gmail.com>]

I keep a couple Meyer's lemons & various other citrus, figs, bananas,  
etc in containers. I've found that a great way to stabilize the  
watering in the summer is to use oversized plastic saucers beneath all  
of my collection.  I get the plastic saucers from the local Menards &  
the cost does add up if you have a couple 100 plants, but easily worth  
the price.  Bottom watering has several advantages but the main one  
seems to be that on really hot periods of weather it gives me a one or  
2 day buffer in case I'm away & don't get to watering everything.  The  
other feature I like is the top of the plant actually gets fairly  
dried out when one bottom waters & slows down the growth of the  
miscellaneous weeks that pop up.

~mIEKAL


GINDA wrote:

> By the way, people sometimes as why I don't just leave it in the pot  
> over the
> summer, outdoors.  The
>
> answer is that I cannot water it reliably enough to keep it alive in  
> a pot in
> the sun.  But it doesn't really need all that much water, so it does  
> fine
> planted in the ground.  Even during droughts, I rarely water it.