But [the Sky’s] Got What Plants CRAVE. It’s Got [RAIN WATER]!
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Idiocracy: “But Brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes!”
My version: “But the sky’s got what plants crave. It’s got rain water!”
Ugly, yet effective manual rain water collection from roof–trees don’t care.
We had a MONSOON this year!
For day’s we had this thing called rain, right here in Phoenix! It was a lovely few days with temps in the 70F to 80F range.
Citrus trees in the Sonoran Desert, where water doesn’t just pour out of the sky, often rely on city water.
Rain water is way better than this water…
While an automated water encatchment system might be nice, there’s nothing stopping you from creating a easy, cheap, DIY manual encatchment system to collect what plants CRAVE: rain water!
As I was working on my upper body weightlifting, bucket brigading the water from the 55 gallon bucket in front of the house to the trees in the back, I couldn’t help but see a YouTube #shorts in the making and just have a little fun update concerning the citrus trees, which were on life support last year:
Your citrus trees will love you for it!
Citrus trees watered with rain water.
Aaaand you’ll love the fruit you get next year!
Oranges fertilized with rain water
WOOT better orange juice! This year’s crop is going to be amazing!
For times when rain water is scarce and your citrus trees are struggling from disease, here’s what I’m doing to help mine recover:
MATERIALS:
○ Mauget Vigor 53 tree injectors
○ Kellogg Organic Plus Fruit Tree Fertilizer
○ Bee Safe 3-in-1 Garden Spray Organocide
TOOLS:
○ Drill, if you intend to put in tree injectors yourself
RELATED VIDEOS:
Citrus Tree Recovery Checkpoint #3 (WITH BEES!): April 2021
Citrus Tree Recovery Checkpoint #2: October 2020
Citrus Tree Recovery Checkpoint #1: May 2020
