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Saturday, June 26, 2010

The Day After............





The day after inserting poinsettia cuttings into the Oasis Wedges is always are critical time. The plants always seem to wilt given Midwest weather, so the faster they re-hydrate and become turgid the better for the plant.

Here are couple photos showing showing the day after. Note in the pictures that there are two different types of mist nozzles. I experimented with these nozzles. The brass nozzles apparently give much better coverage than the plastic nozzle. Notice the wilted plants under the plastic nozzle.

The brass nozzles are old style while the plastic is a new generation of misting nozzle. This is not to say the plastic is inferior, what it means is that a different type of spacing is required for the plastic nozzles. Maybe two runs of pipe, rather than one. Also, having the plastic nozzles spaced closer together would be helpful and then alternating the directions of spray orifice so that they are not set in the same direction.

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