Seeing a week into the future

[greenstorm]

I had forgotten just how much I like this work- so m uch that I'm taking this lunch to tell you about it. The annoyances will start later but right now I'm dealing with a neat little system.

We deal with some specific types of plants: three kinds of canes, various aglos, a few types of spaths, raphis palms, two or three kinds of ficus, etc. Each requires some specific amount of food, water, and sun.

Each building had four sides, most of which are obscured to varying degrees by surrounding buildings except in many cases to the north or east to a lesser extent. There is also sometimes film on windows, and each building has an HVAC system which is sometimes on.

My job is to clean plants, treat pests, and water and feed based on my projection of the next week's weather, amount of sun exposure (varies with season as the sun's path changes), building temp (if the HVAC is off it can get up to 45 C or so, or down to 5 or 6), type of plant, etc. It's complicated enouh that a lot of what I do is intuition, but uncomplicated enough that after a year or two it can be done well. I like doing things well.