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Thanks for your video. I'm doing some home made tests for months now trying a variety of pots and ropes. In my climate (Porto Alegre - RS, Brazil) I believe the nylon/recycled ropes work better. The cotton ones often result in root rot, which creates the perfect environment for Fungus Gnats and other tiny beings.

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Thanks for the demonstration! Much appreciated! This was helpful to designing my garden watering system.

I’m 6’4 310 would this boat be enough?

Cotton is not working

Thank you so much for this experiment! Quite eye-opening! Will be using this info in my garden this summer!

Thank you so much for this info! Very helpful.

For your consideration. I tried a few ropes and twines and found that a poly/cotton walmart brand clothesline filled up a a bottle with 8oz of water over a period of just over 12 hours. The Hemp crafting string only produced an ounce. I also tried a length of cotton garment fill(?) which looked kinda like rope and it is worse than the hemp.

I'm wit all your videos keep it coming I just purchased one ready to do my mods

"...to make sure everything works as it should." ?? You forgot to explain how you transfer the water. Or, why wicking isn't better.

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Hi Brandon…..I am about to make a wicking bucket and this video really taught me something. Thank you sir !!!!!!!!!!! (I believed nylon worked best).

Is the 100ml the towel material? Thanks

What material of towel?thanks

Wow, that's fascinating. I'm looking into moisture wicking vs absorbing, as it relates to clothing. I've found that cotton socks feel MUCH more comfortable to me. Wicking socks make my foot feel wet. But everyone says cotton socks hold water, and wicking socks pull it off your feet. I've also found that if I wear polyester/synthetic shirts, like those shiny golf shirts, or the sportswear kind, I get smelly pretty quickly, even if I'm just working in the office. But if I wear cotton, I don't get smelly at all. I'm currently shopping for a sweat cap to wear on my head when I'm doing hard work outside, and not sure if I should look for cotton or "wicking". But honestly, my personal experience, and your video are making "wicking" seem like BS.

What type of materials were used?

Wow, thank you for this demonstration!

I appreciate you sharing this test data. Thank you!

this was a great experiment but what type of material are you using for the 3 types of wicking ...Thanks

Great video. Could use a little more volume.

My cotton rope keeps disintegrating. I was going to try nylon rope as it will not rot as fast. I was told to wash the rope first with some soapy water to remove any oil/lubricant used in processing. I would like to know your experience with both the cotton and nylon ropes. In your video above, was the nylon rope prewashed and soaking wet prior to starting?

Would love to see how you did all the mods.

All I heard was stupid music, why couldn't I hear your voices, please explain what doing , dislike video

There are couple flaws with this test, the only result you got is which material transfers water the fastest but does not equate to being the best for the plant necessary unless it's a plant that need A LOT of water fast in super hot and dry climates. First off many plants will DIE getting that much water into their soil, it will cause root rot. Two roots just need to come in contact with the rope and they will draw water from the rope, there doesn't need to be water dripping of it - it just needs to be wet for the plants to draw what they need. I use nylon rope for my house plants and I keep having to reduce the amount of rope and now thickness because its transferring too much water to my plants. So best wick material would depend on how much the plant needs and the environment it's situated in. I started with 3/8 nylon cord with 4 cords, then reduced to 2 then to 1 and just recently switched to 3/16" cord. The root length and the depth of the planter also matters. If you short rooter deeper rope is needed if deep roots than no more than half way to the pot. At 3/8" rope half way was still drowning my large 10-12" planet pot plants. Experimenting with thinner rope this next two weeks, half way, using just one. Since we know roots "draw" the water they need I did a different kind of test. I put rope one end in low container going up to 12" one, I took tiny piece of paper towel after 5mins and wrapped around the rope to see how fast and how far the water traveled up the nylon rope. It was wet all the way to the 12" top after just a few mins as my paper towel got wet when wrapped around it. This rope is actually more idea because it won't drown your plants and/or waste water and actually allow your plants to take what they need so you end up using less water overtime, it also does not rot like natural fibers. I am curious how your plants are doing, what kind of environment they are in and are there drain holes for excess water. Also coming from top or bottom water feeding. If it's inside the pot I would be careful with fiber rot and check the fiber material over time to make sure it doesn't rot the roots eventually.

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These are more of a bottom feeding system via soil wicking right? These are easy to make and requires little maintenance. And yeah, if you don't need to feed different nutrients then you can connect the pots with a tube and use single reservoir. But if you need to use different irrigation solution, then you cannot use the same reservoir obviously. I'm more interested to feed differently "each" pots, which allows me to control each reservoir individually so if one has a problem, it won't affect all. Also I have these 30l reservoirs which could easily feed each plant for a long time. One for all would last a lot less time. This is the method I'd like to use but lifting the water some 30cm is the broblem here. ua-cam.com/video/yAcHXchP0iM/v-deo.html

That's more of a gravity irrigation rather than capillary irrigation, how about that, what works best for that let's say 50cm vertical way?

So you will be using a towel as the wicking material?

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Awesome

Your vid is kinda lagin