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Ray 02-06-2021 03:32 PM

Watering indoor plants
 
Since moving from more than 3 decades of greenhouse growing to windowsills and a deck in summer, I have had to relearn a lot of stuff.

One of the biggest pains has been indoor watering - watering the media and not the plants, not spilling it on the floors, etc.

Following suggestions by folks here I put the Gardener's Supply deep boot trays on my rolling benches and I started investigating building a tank-with-pump system for watering. After a while I found that I could buy a 4-gallon powered system just as cheaply.

I ended up getting a PETRA HD4100 sprayer. It has a wheeled cart that is very easy to drag around when full, a variable pressure/flow pump that is rechargeable battery powered (8 hours of use per charge), and it can be separated from the cart, making it a backpack sprayer if desired. It came with several different nozzles, so has broad utility.

I've had it about two weeks now and it has made watering much easier, including a long hose that allows me to water plants high up in a window greenhouse in the kitchen.

It's a bit pricey, but seems to be very well made and checks off all of the requirements.

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DirtyCoconuts 02-06-2021 07:48 PM

Ooooh I like it. Very nice. Use it in good health

james j 02-07-2021 10:44 AM

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I’ve been using the PSE unit for a few years and it has made watering indoors easier. Since I only use it indoors, I took out the battery and wired it to a transformer so I could plug it in.
It was expensive but I found a factory rebuilt one on line for about the half price.
I’ve gone through a lot of pump sprayers over the years, but this one seems to be holding up pretty good so far.

I’ve always wondered why the don’t make the wands on these things longer. I also use a hand pump one to spray my fruit trees and another 2’ would make it so much easier.

DirtyCoconuts 02-07-2021 07:19 PM

What is the capacity of that one James?

james j 02-07-2021 10:49 PM

Mine is 5 gal.

I think it was listed a 4 gal. but I use a 5 gal Poland spring jug to transport water from my rain barrel to fill it.


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