Can botanists use automatic plant waterer/sprinkler machine?

[cjballa]

i got banned from the discord so i got to ask here

[galadon3]

Can't say it 100% but at least the animation shows the botanist using a watering can, even when a sprinkler is next to the pot. So unless the fact that there is a sprinkler saves time on their watering action (wich I cant really verify), I guess sprinklers are useless on NPC-operated planters

[malogoss]

I think you just save money and space by not adding sprinkler and soil distributor to the pots that are worked by your botanists. I tried that and it looked like they did not care, they are just as fast with or without them.

[Dillbooo]

nah you dont need a sprinkler they automatically have a water can in their inventory thats infinite same with snippers too, so you dont need to have those sprinkles bascially a waste of space if you have employees on them.

[penguinjay]

if you get to 4am tho and wanna supplement your employees work though, it can be helpful for yourself to have those things. Like, if you need to make a big amount of product for the following day, you can fill the pots w soil, drop seed, and water them, then go to sleep. Your plants will grow, and the botanist will finish up w the nutrients the following day, you can jump start your progress that way.

It's a lot easier to never need to worry about a watering can yourself and the dirt filling goes faster. A botanist can really only handle like 4 plants anyways so I put those things in there for the sake of convenience as long as I'm not hurting for space.