Any cool ideas for a "slow watering plants device"?

Will be away for almost a month and wondering if anyone had cool ideas on building a dripping water device for my little plants in hot HK summer!


Thanks

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In Flower St, Mong Kok, we bought "watering wicks" they cost almost nothing but you could possibly make them yourself.

Firstly give the plants a good soaking. Then get some soft cotton string and throughly soak this in in water also. You will need one piece for every plant and long enough to go from a bucket into the plant.

You then fill up a large bucket/big bowl with water and place one end of the very wet string into the bucket/big bowl and secure or weigh down this end with a brick or plate or something to stop it rising to the top. The other end, push well into the dirt of the plant. It will need to be at least halfway into the plant. Then do the same for all plants.

I would do all of this in the bathroom to ensure that if there is a problem, it won't destroy your floorboards:)

This string will remain wet and siphon into the plant as the plant dries out. The key is to have everything wet, plant and string before placing one end into the bucket.

The wick idea from Mong Kok is almost the same, it just had a hard plastic thing to push into the plant. You could use an old pen to achieve the same purpose.

Standard disclaimer if all of this fails and your house is flooded or your plants are dry arrangements :)

But give it ago as it does work.

Another effective way to water pot plants for a few weeks is to fill a plastic bottle and pierce a hole in the lid. Invert the bottle in the pot plant and it will slowly release the water over a few weeks. Make sure you bury the bottle.

he?....cool thks...

wife may complain about state of the bathroom but he?.....question of survival of the plant!

that's a winner! :-)


bobthebuilder, as of interest, i'd still would want to check out the wicks thing, any shop address?

Not too sure of the address. The shop was two storey in Flower St running along the side of Mong Kok sports ground. I remember the shop was towards the end of the street where there is a large rubbish removal building. The wicks were on the second floor. The ground floor sold plants and the second sold equipment, flower pots, vases and stuff.

The bottle idea does work but only for some flower pots. I found having an inverted bottled made the pots top heavy