DIY Automatic Watering Device for Balcony Flower Planting
A comprehensive introduction to the DIY automatic watering device for balcony flower planting and the lazy person's automatic watering device for plant care, details are as follows:
As the holiday season is approaching, many friends want to go out and play, but what should we do with the potted plants on the balcony at home? Should we just let them survive on their own? Here are some techniques for automatic watering of flowers during holidays, allowing them to safely survive days without care.
Creating an Automatic Water Refill Device
An automatic water refill gadget, which everyone can learn, is very practical. Before leaving home, you can water the plants first, and then create some automatic water refill devices. Some friends have introduced various automatic water refill devices before, but not all of them are very useful. One of them is to pierce a hole in the bottom of a plastic bottle, fill it with water, and insert it into the soil. This method of supplementing water to the potting soil can easily clog the holes in the pot, preventing water from draining out. This method needs to be improved.
Plastic Bag Automatic Water Refill Technique
For example, we can prepare some sun-resistant plastic bags, fill them with clean water, and pierce a hole in the bottom of the bag with a needle to allow water to slowly drip out. This creates a very simple automatic water refill device. Note that you must use a needle to pierce the hole; if you use a toothpick or bamboo skewer, the hole will be too large, causing the water to flow too strongly and quickly run out.
Online Automatic Drip Devices
Some friends think that plastic bags are unstable, easily blown over by the wind, or easily torn. In that case, you can use a plastic bottle instead. You can hang the plastic bottle (or support it with a stick), pierce a hole in the bottom to let water slowly drip down, and of course, you should also pierce a few holes in the top of the plastic bottle for ventilation.
DIY Automatic Watering Device for Balcony Flower Planting
Some friends even pierce holes in the side of the plastic bottle, fill it with water, and bury the entire bottle in the soil, which can also allow water to slowly seep into the soil. However, this method is difficult to operate and can easily damage the plant roots.
Cotton Thread Automatic Water Refill
This technique is actually similar to the lazy person's flower pot. Many friends have used lazy person's flower pots to grow flowers, but many have found that when growing flowers in these pots, the soil is often in a moist state. In a poorly ventilated environment, it can easily cause root rot.
Let me tell you that the lazy person's flower pot is actually a large plastic pot without holes, where a planting basket (a small basket) is placed on top, into which soil can be added, and then plants are planted. At the bottom of the planting basket, cotton thread is placed to absorb water from the bottom of the plastic pot into the soil, keeping it moist. If the soil remains moist for a long time, combined with poor ventilation, the plant roots can easily rot.