| Hey Sandra,
When I was starting out I had some plants (Cattleyas mostly) that needed watering every 7 days, some (Paphs) that I watered about every 5 days, and others (Masdevallias) that I watered every 3 days. I devised a colour-coded system for watering in which I took a calendar and in different colour pens plotted out every 7, 5, and 3 days. I went to an office supply store and bought those little round coloured dots, 3 colours, that matched the colours i had used on the calendar and stuck dots on the pots. then when i got up in the morning I'd look at the calendar and see (for example) that today was marked, in green, "5 Day" so I would water all the plants that had a green dot on the pot (which were the plants which needed watering every 5 days). The next day (for another example) i'd see "7 Day" in blue and "3 Day" in red so I would water all pots with blue or red dots on them. This system worked extremely well for me when I had nearly 200 plants with different watering likes. Later I gravitated to Paphs and Phrags and didn't need the system any longer.
-K  |