@reggaj Found a type you prefer? I'm very curious. Labeling that holds? About as significant as intel gets, isn't it? Among biodiversity propagators, it's a) Fine Point standard black sharpie and b) Scotch Blue 3 M painters tape, as state religion. Here, esoteric deets...
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Copy of Post to Agrarian Sharing Network FB group. Important thread comment from Chris Hardy, relayed here: “We discovered this year that those sharpies with the ultra fine tip on one end and the regular fine tip on the other end? They use the same ink on both ends, and it's different than the ink they use in the regular fine tip sharpies. The result being that if you use one of those pens on a plastic plant label, the ink won't even last a couple months in the PNW sun.” Our preferred markers? After repeated experimentation, the basic black fine point Sharpie. Difficult to find, but even better yet, the Sharpie Rub-a Dub Laundry Markers (with distinctive white plastic bodies).
@Tao_Orion Once, walking the USDA pear repository in Sept at the height of the ripening curve, with its curator and two of the top nursery people in the west, tasting pears, plant-professional talk was of what? The forever challenge of labeling systems and writing tools that will hold!
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