Indoor Plant Watering System Review - DIY Automatic Drip Irrigation Kit - Water Plants On Vacation
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Check out my review for this indoor plant watering system, the DIY Automatic Drip Irrigation Kit. It’s a great product to help you water your plants while you're away on vacation!
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I am planning to go on a vacation and was wondering how can I water my indoor plants and this is perfect.
So glad you found it helpful!
I recently bought something similar and was looking for a visual guide on how they work. Your video did just that. thank you!
So glad to hear that it was helpful!
Thank you so much for showing how it works. Not many review videos out there for this.
Glad it was helpful!
Either small or big, indoor or out door. Self watering system is the way to go. I am using a Hunter 12 channels with WiFi and it’s saves me a ton of work. My whole garden is on auto.
All gardeners who don’t use machines for watering are living life the hard way.
This was so helpful! I just bought a similar version and wanted to figure out how to set this up. You're awesome!
So glad to hear that it helped you out!
All of the clear tubing will be full of algea. Water systems tubing are made in black to prevent light. Light and water means algea
Oh interesting, I didn’t think about that with the clear tubing. Maybe something I’ll let the company who produces them know about so they can create a better product. Thanks for your comment!
This is true, I swapped mine for black.
Well the fact that the company who produces this item overlooked that makes it clear that is has no expertise in hydro of any sorts. Its the typical Alibaba/wish object. The building block of any hydro setup is to avoid Algea because of the problems it will bring along with it. Also, you cannot irrigat a 5 gallon pot with a single dripper without some kind of halo and expect a uniform humiduty in the root zone If your using a hydroponic medium such as hydroton wich tend to drain more then soil because it will actually shrink your root zone as your concentrating only in a single spot the roots will not expand as they need humidity uniformity in the entire root zone if not they will prune them selfs.
@@NoMoreMrNiceGuy223 1000% agree, I use mine for vacations, it does do "ok" definingly limps them threw, but would not use as a long term watering solution.
I got mine for over 4 months and not a sinlge algae inside and I even kept my tubes with water inside next to the light, this happened to me with my water reservoair but not the tubes at all
The blue "filter" is an airstone used for aquariums or in hydropony, to add oxygen to water.
Thank you!! So good to know!
Useful review thanks.
Of course!
This was great to see how everything was put together and how simple it was to set up. Seeing how the stakes worked, I ended up grabbing some fan irrigation sprayers to allow for a wider water coverage. All in all great video!
Great idea! And thank you!
COuld i use halo feeders with this system do you think?
Possibly! I’m not sure what size of tubing halo feeders need but I’m sure you could rig something up pretty easily if it didn’t exactly fit
U did very wonderfully
Thank you!
My 4 way fitting started leaking, so I placed it over one of my plants. Problem solved for now. Another thing I did was turn the timer/ pump on the outside of the bucket, so it won’t accidentally fall into the water. Seems to work good for now. Will put security cam on it so I can observe it from a far.
Thank you for helping me understand how to use it,, I'm planning to buy one for my cannabis plants,,,, and yes it's legal in my country
My concern is different watering needs. Perhaps 2 would be good. One for high water and one for low water. Or putting 2 steaks in a high water need pot
If you have a problem connecting the tubing place it into hot water, it will cause the tubing to be flexible.
Great tip, thanks for sharing!
If you ever need more tubing, I think it's just standard airline tubing
How long does the four batteries last. Thank you
I just bought this and tried to set up the auto function to water once a day but it just goes into a loop without waiting a day in between. I'm wondering if I have to hook up the water for it to work?
I bought this and tried it a few days ago. I had troubles putting the dripping ends into the tube because the tube was very tight (Great, I thought). My setup involves multiple T connections, 1 tube branching into 2, then 2 into 4, then 4 into 8 dripping ends. When I turned the machine on and it started pumping the water I noticed that on every T connection the water was dripping a lot, around one tablespoon in 30 seconds of it running. That's not really a little considering that I'd need to run it for some 90 seconds. I guess I was not very lucky with my batch of cables but I don't like to rely on luck anyway. I personally give this overpriced product 2 stars and am surprised that in EU online market it's basically the only option for the task (others have significantly less good reviews). I hope this will be useful info for those considering buying this.
I have the same leaking problem. It's shame, because I notice fluid engineering went into the parts. I have written them to see if they have a solution. or if it's something they want to improve on.
Great video, btw you have beautiful eyes.
Thank you! That's very kind of you!
Thanks Tenney for the review! I got one a month ago and I set it to auto mode as you described, however mine doesn't really water automatically as I programmed😣I changed the setting to water every 2 days or 1 day to test it out, but no luck😩is there any way I can make it water automatically? Thanks a lot!
Hm that's a great question! If you followed the instructions and everything, perhaps something is wrong with the unit you bought? I would contact customer support and see if they can get you a replacement.
What happens if the bucket runs dry. Will it destroy the pump.
I bought an automatic irrigation system like this. I am having some difficulty. I am trying to water 10 plants and connected those with tubing in series like you, but same amount of water is not coming out from each nozzles.
How to resolve this issue?
What’s about organi fertilizer in the water (molasses, seaweed,)? Does it pass through the metal filter or better don’t use the filter?
What you growing Andrew? 0.o
Is their a follow up to this video?
Have you got any updates regarding this system? Has it worked out well? Are there any issues?
So my mom is using it much more than me because she travels more. She hasn’t had any issues with it yet. She has had to adjust it since she had it watering too much at first so it sounds like it’s best to err on the side of under-watering, at least with houseplants.
How would you change the amount for each plant? Id like to connect it to plants big and small.
As far as I know, you'd have to place multiple watering stakes in the pots that are bigger. There's no way to control the flow on each individual watering stake.
You can buy an inline aquarium air valve and decrease your flow.
Have you had any issues with siphoning at all? I'm working on a sort of miniature greenhouse project, and I have a small pump on a timer that feeds a drip irrigation line, but even if the pump stops water still continues to flow because it started a siphon at that point. Does this system have some kind of valve or something that prevents siphoning?
I haven't noticed any siphoning occurring so far. There is no visible valve to prevent siphoning but I think their must be some sort of valve within the pump because the input hose and the output hose run through the pump and seem to stop any sort of siphoning. I hope that answer helps! And I hope you're miniature greenhouse build goes well!
These units do siphon water once the pumps go off and can flood plants
If siphoning is an issue (it was for me) I would recommend buying a peristaltic pump, commercial timer and time delay relay. This will allow an absolute precision, no matter how high or low pump is in relation to a plants. Zero siphoning, but basic electrical skills and safety precautions required to assembe the circuit.
Wonder if this would still work for my cannabis plants....when feeding wonder if the pump will get stuck
why wouldnt it work? soil is soil. just wonder how many times per day and for how long lls......
@@comicsrreleaf1630 using water soluable dry amendments as fees.....wonder if would get clogged
@@benhoganjr good point might clog. This worked well for me for plain water to feed for 5 day vacay kept them alive
@@comicsrreleaf1630 so u got it and liked it????
@@benhoganjr yes I got it so it could water my plants. Went on vacation for 6 days and left 5 gallon bucket with water and when I return it was empty and the plants were alive and well.
I got the system thru Amazon and followed the installation instructions but my problem was fitting the spikes to the tubing as it very narrow and got frustrated getting it to fit. So I do not understand how you can say that it was EASY to fit them with no problem !!! If you have a solution let me know otherwise tomorrow I'll return it. Thank you. I'm looking forward to your response.
Yeah it does take some effort to fit them. I would suggest placing your fingers a few inches back from the end of the tubing to push them on. Or maybe even trying to put a bit of oil or Vaseline on the spike where it connects.
The tubing needs to be narrow so that it creates a tight fit and no water can leak out and spray everywhere.
I hope that helps!
@@tenneyplants Thanks four reply. Will try your suggestions.
Sorry correction I mean your reply.
Dip in hot water then smash them on
Wirklich einfach zu bedienen. Leider kann man die Wassermenge für jede einzelne Pflanze nicht einstellen. Es werden immer alle gleich lang gegossen.
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Can you water multiple times a day ? Like once in the morning and later in the evening?
Yeah! If you set it to run every 12 hours, for example, it could hit 7am and then 7pm.
how much it cost u?
How long does the battery last?
I’m not sure actually. I’ve always just had it plugged in rather than relying on the batteries
I don’t think I’m being dumb I’m unable to get this working automatically on usb power or battery works fine manually. Any ideas anyone?
Model DT06
I can't find the link to this product...
The link for it is in the description of the video. I just checked the link and it should be working still! 😊
Where can I buy this pump
It’s Amazon link is in the description box of this video 😊
This thing doesn't really work for 5 gallon pots or bigger and u will mess up ur roots digging it in there. It's better to tie it on stem or hanging it somehow on plant
Hi. Just buy a smartplug for like 10 USD, then you can use it over wifi all over the world.
but do you think it is really helpful in real time ? plants can survive without water for a week.
I think it’d be helpful if you have to leave your plants for a long period of time, like 2 weeks or more. Or if you have herbs or vegetables that need water more often, it would work well then too. :)
@@tenneyplants how many weeks exactly?
I don’t have a specific amount of weeks in mind that I think it’s going to work, I’d say just 2+ weeks. It also depends how much water you’re able to store for the pump to pull from.
Flooded my front room no matter the position. Put it high and lowered than the water source and the plant... Just kept on watering.
Water can symphony out from the bucket. I put a return to the bucket at the start of the network to provide an air brake. Keep it above the water .level
Aint no way this pump dont shiphon