Are you planning to leave home for a while? Have you already attached a parrot and a cat to relatives and neighbors? But what about indoor flowers? There are several simple, but from this no less ingenious ways of independent watering of flowers without the participation of the owner.
The easiest and cheapest way to create automatic watering for your indoor flowers is a pot-in-pot system. To do this, you need to choose a larger pot than the one in which the flower grows. The bottom of a large pot must be laid with pebbles, which must be covered with a sponge or rag. This is done so that the water does not stagnate and does not evaporate very quickly. After that, you can put a flower pot in a larger one and fill the distance between the walls with water.
In order to create a more complex drip irrigation system, you will need a plastic bottle with a capacity of at least 5 liters, dropper systems or natural threads. The bottle is placed on a hill so that the law of physics - gravitational attraction - begins to work. The height of the bottle should be greater than the highest pot of flowers.
At the bottom of the bottle, you must first make small holes for draining water. The holes must be exactly at the bottom so that all the water, in the end, is in the ground. After this, place the pots around the bottle and bring each thread or tube to each. If the design uses tubes from the dropper system, then it is better to adjust the rate of water intake, because there is an opportunity for this. In the case of fabrics or threads, the water itself will gradually drain into the ground.
If there are a lot of flowers in the house or they are very large, then creating a common automatic drip irrigation system with one capacity is both inconvenient and inappropriate.
In this case, you can arrange drip irrigation for each pot separately. You can use for this as a system of droppers completely, as well as simple plastic bottles. It is enough to make a few holes in the lid that will determine the intensity of water intake. If the pot is small, then there should be few holes, since a glut of water is as destructive for a plant as drought. Having collected a full bottle of water, simply turn it over and bury it in the ground. By slightly deepening the neck of the bottle, you will naturally adjust the rate of moisture entering the ground.
If you decide to use dropper systems, simply fill the existing tank with water and connect the system to the plant. Aesthetically, this method is quite unattractive, since each plant resembles a patient who has fallen into a coma. But the effect is amazing. Upon your return, you will be greeted by green, succulent leaves of your favorite flower and fresh air in the room.
And finally, the last way - the device of a potted wick. But it is necessary to take care of it even during planting or transplantation of a plant. It consists in the fact that at the bottom of the pot is placed a small piece of cloth or thread, the so-called wick. The fabric must necessarily absorb moisture well. Inside the pot, it is imperative to make a good drainage layer that allows air to pass through. On top of this layer, the end of the wick is laid and then covered with earth. If necessary, simply place part of the wick in a container of water, and the roots themselves will determine how much water they need for life.
After the work done, you need a little distraction. For example, if you were born under the sign of a calf, then it will be interesting body horoscope horoscope.