Not a spray gun
A watering lance: a 65 cm aluminium tube with a perforated rose on the end
and a valve at the handle.
You do not point it and squeeze. You hold it out over a bed, open the valve, and
walk.
That distinction runs through everything below, and it is why the pattern count
on this product is one.
The only real specification on this shelf
Over 260 holes in the rose, each 0.7 mm in diameter.
Spray width up to 35 cm.
About 44 litres a minute at 4 bar.
Total length 65 cm.
Not one gun on this shelf publishes a single one of those figures. Every one of
them publishes a pattern count instead — and sorted by price those counts run
8, 8, 3, 4, 10, 5 and 1, which is no relationship to anything.
This is what a specification for a watering tool looks like, and it is the
dearest product here.
What 260 holes of 0.7 mm actually do
They turn pressure into volume without turning it into force.
A nozzle takes the same water and pushes it through one small orifice, so it
leaves fast. That is what a jet is, and it is what you want for paving and wheel
arches — and it is what flattens a seed tray and washes compost out of a pot.
A rose divides the same flow across hundreds of openings, so each stream is slow
and the whole falls rather than strikes. You can hold it over a tray of
seedlings at full flow.
0.7 mm is the number that decides this. Larger holes and the rose drips in
heavy streams that dig into compost; smaller and they block from the inside
within a season.
44 litres a minute, in something you can picture
A 10-litre watering can is about thirteen seconds of this lance.
That is the point of the tool. It is not gentle because it is slow — it is
gentle and fast, which is why lances like this are what nurseries and
greenhouses use rather than pistol guns.
It is also the only place on this shelf where volume can be compared at all,
because it is the only flow figure published.
The brass ball valve
Not a trigger, and not a twist bezel. A quarter-turn ball valve, in brass.
Three things follow.
It stays where it is set — no spring, nothing held, no hand ache over an
hour.
It is proportional: half open is half flow, and that is how you water a
seedling tray with a tool rated at 44 litres a minute.
And it is a brass ball valve, which is the plumbing industry’s standard for
a reason: nothing in it perishes quickly, and it can be replaced.
Replaceable components
Stated in the listing, and it is the rarest claim on this shelf.
Every gun here is a sealed moulding. When the seal weeps or the bezel jams, it
goes in the bin, and at €7 to €25 that is the intended outcome.
A lance whose rose, valve and coupling can be individually replaced is a
different kind of purchase: dear once, and then maintained. Over ten years of
daily use that is the cheaper arrangement, and over one season of occasional use
it is not.
Two coupling systems on one fitting
A GEKA claw coupling and a push-fit compatible with the common garden
click system.
That is unusual and genuinely useful. On this site’s connector shelf, those two
standards are among three incompatible systems that sit side by side, and buying
across them is the standard way to waste money there.
A lance carrying both works on a nursery’s claw-coupled line and on a domestic
hose reel without an adapter.
The cold-insulating grip guard
Named, and it is the detail that gives away who this was designed for.
An aluminium tube with cold water running through it at 44 litres a minute is
cold. Held for an hour in March, bare metal is genuinely unpleasant and it is
the reason people put a lance down.
A guard over the grip section is not comfort styling. It is what makes an
all-metal tool usable for a full morning.
Availability
From 35 € to 43 €, that being the spread across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores on the day of the survey.
Beyond the euro zone, the British Amazon store prices it in its own currency, which the spread above sets aside.
Nothing came back from the American Amazon store at all; the buy button there runs a search rather than opening an empty page.
Taken from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and prices move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 26 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
