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[Jay Cutts <orders@cuttsreviews.com>]

Ginda,

Out here in the west everything has to be on drip irrigation anyway. 
Nobody could possibly hand water everything frequently enough. A small 
drip system would allow you to keep plants alive when you are not around.

Regards,

Jay

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On 12/12/2010 8:17 AM, Ginda Fisher wrote:
> How often do you water your container plants?  Anything more often than once 
> a week is probably a non-starter for me.  (I do keep some tomatoes in large 
> pots, and they may get watered twice a week during summers' peak.  But then I 
> go away for vacation for a week, and pray for enough rain that they don't die 
> outright.  I'm typically away for 2 one-week stretches during mid-summer.)
>
> Ginda
>
> On Dec 12, 2010, at 9:55 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
>
> > 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.
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