Indoor DIY House Plant Shelf that SELF DRAINS
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- This is a house plant shelf that automatically drains itself when watering. If you’re trying to build a plant shelf that houses all of your house plants this would be a great idea. This is 8 feet long and it holds a lot of house plants. I don’t have any regrets on building this and I would highly advise anyone looking to attempt us to go for it.
This is a DIY bill so you cannot pre-buy something like this from IKEA or any box chain stores. We also mounted some LED plant lights in the shelving units that really helps ensure that the house plants get adequate amounts of lighting.
We built this plant shelf out of basic building materials that consisted of two by fours and plywood. You will need basic woodworking tools to be able to build a shelf like this that holds house plants. We also use some online or that I had laying around so you will have to purchase or find some of that.
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I am trying to so hard to keep this plant alive!!
So I’ve had it for about a month and a week or so ago my boyfriend watered all of my plants but barely gave this one any and she dried up so fast. I tried the method of putting a large garbage back and green housing it and that seemed like it worked, for a day.
She’s crispy and I’ve been watering consistently but. It still looks so awful and the leaves are curling in and getting brittle. My house is a big dry but I’ve never struggled so hard with a plant and I’m a little pissed because the woman at the shop said it was low maintenance but obviously something isn’t going right should I give it some plant food? Do you think adjusting to a dryer climate is making it so finicky? I just want it to survive because I paid full price for it and it was kind of pricey for me since I usually buy rescue plants.
To me it looks like a variegated creeping fig, which are very particular, they should be kept moist and not super wet, need good drainage and bright indirect light. Sadly once it is crispy it is pretty much gone. If you have any leaves that show life and are not crispy, trim off the dead and see if you can get it to come back.
I mix hydrogen peroxide in the water that I give them. Definitely helps. Just make sure to google the ratios. Also like previous member mentioned, bottom water.
Cinnamon on tops of soil, and using gnat traps in the pots helped me! Also watering with peroxide, I used 3tbs peroxide to one gallon of water & they’re gone so far.
So I started this last week….i boiled cinnamon sticks and poured that cinnamon water into a spray bottle (after it cooled down) i sprayed the top of the soil and i think it’s working i haven’t noticed any after that…if you’re watering the plant maybe spray the soil with the solution first and then water so it can kill the larvae…i barely tried it last weekend so I’m new to this too.
i've used neem oil (can't stand the smell throughout the house), cinnamon seemed to work (you have to re-sprinkle each time you water) and mosquito bits (these break down and disperse the chemical every time you water to kill the larva and pupa). watering from the bottom and allowing top soil to dry out really makes a difference. still going for the gnat traps to capture the flying adults. good luck.. pesty little pests.
Diy indoor plant shelf that drains into a bucket.
I’ve been mixing a few big sprays of neem oil into my watering can and watering everything with it for about a month and that’s the only thing that has fully worked for me so far. I got the idea from someone in this group that posted about it.
You can cover the top of the soil with pebbles or sand to suffocate the larvae. It helps a lot. I tried vanilla and cinnamon and all that above, nothing worked.. so far the pebbles have helped a lot and I also just tried the peroxide/water mix also, I’ve noticed it’s helping too. But the other crap did nothing for me.
Hey Chris! Long time follower and also fellow Minnesotan! This shelf is absolutely crazy and I love the route you took! It gave me lots of ideas for the setup I’m working on in my own home.
Side thought idea: I’m going to be rigging my plants with a water line attached to a pump hidden in my 75gallon below. The pump will be attached to a WiFi plug so I can control it from my phone. Each line will have a valve so I can adjust how much water is put out at each plant. This takes your tank water hose to the next level and makes it “automatic” especially if you just overfill your plants and let them drain out.
Hey Zach, how did this turn out? Do you have a video of it? Great idea by the way!
I've wanted something like this for so long. Only difference I would make is I water from the bottom, so having each shelf hold water with a valve that opens and closes with a lip that would allow water to sit in the reservoir. Then when I have had them sitting in the water long enough I open the valves and it drains out. It would be a life and time saver!!
Dude this was a great idea.
GREAT VIDEO
AMAZING BUILD
Peace ✌️
Awesome video
well done
Wow man great job
Genius!
Bad ass idea. And that’s a badass shelf. Coming from someone with a ton of house plants always trying to figure out how to shorten my time with watering and caring for them.
I am completely amazed!!! I have so many houseplants, my house looks like a jungle. My poor husband does flooring for a living and has ended up putting tile on the floor in front of our windows because of the water spillage. I would pay (heck, he would pay) good money for one of those!!!!
Looks like it came out alright.
Nice build
You're so close to making an overhead sump that you could plant plants directly in.
If you made the sides a little higher, pump water from a fishtank and then drain back into the fishtank, and set up a bell siphon to flood and drain it, you could plant basically any house plant directly in the gravel, leca, substrate.
I was gonna do that for one of my tanks but couldn't figure out how to waterproof the wood for under $60 so i gave up
You talking about aquaponics? I feel like doing that with some pond plants because it can be all in one tank. But I want it too look nice in my house, not like I filled up a tub full of water, put plants in it and chucked in a couple of goldfish because I couldn't afford koi.
That’s really interesting idea
Love this well done palmer
Would I like this? Yes. Would I build this? HECK NO 😂 more power to you. it’s amazing.
As always another amazing video and great craftsmanship. 👍👍
Fantastic build 👍👍❗
It is a good design. Seems like clear coating it inside would be smelly. But you gotta do what you gotta do. Good job!
You are absolutely right and nurseries don't have shelves like this it is usually shelving with grating that they that they have I think this is a genius idea yes I do so much genius I sent it to my boyfriend for him to watch while hes at work Manning the front desk today the front desk today because we have a ton of house plants and we need to figure out a better system for them
Great job! I sorta feel like a mister, such as those found in the produce aisle, is in order here now lol
That looks awesome!
Looks awesome!! I sure hope you have good supports under your floors 😅
Could you do a tour of all your tanks? And even plants?
I would put a slotted drain cover or screen to prevent the rocks from going through the Drain opening and pile the rocks against it to hide the epoxy and give it a cleaner look!
Yes I’m thinking about making something similar or just like. Maybe a little smaller
I want one and me and my boyfriend are going to definitely look into doing this Because we have the exact same shelves that you had up there before you build this shelf and we have some Large paint canvas bins And the list that we have on the shelves with the plants sitting in them but I like this idea is so much better I think it will work so much better and then with the youth of the gravel at gravel that's also a way to keep some humidity going for the plants that need a little bit more humidity
Lol 😂 lol just a lil joke 1st ... Plumer Plant corner what you think 🤔 ...
Ok frfr great video brother... I been getting into plants 🪴 too ...
what about stagnated water under the rocks, won't it start smelling after, maybe a month ? Just a thought
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Even if you didn't have drainage but incorporated the gravel, that would be sufficient since water would just evaporate long as you don't over water. Cool project but seems like overkill.
Great job! Do you find the water pooling or just sitting there? Did you have to slightly have it on an incline so that it would drain in that direction? Great job!
Can you do a video on red tiger motas
This is what I've been building in my head every time I spend 1+ hour moving and watering houseplants! Anything you would have done differently in hindsight? Everything still working well?
I have a question that i hope you can answer given your experience with jack dempseys. I have a male jack dempsey i got a couple weeks ago and i haven't gottrn him to eat anything since the first day i got him. Every time i put food in the tank he shakes his head and swims away. He is with 2 oscars and a female jack dempsey that isnt mature yet. I've looked everywhere and cannot find an explanation as to why he won't eat. He hasnt lost any weight thered no sores no wounds no signs of any disease. My water parameters are perfect and all the other fish eat eagerly. If you're reading this chris is there anything you can suggest to me?