Automatic Watering Stakes

Perfect!! Bucket of water and becomes self watering. We travel but I like plants. These worked great!

These watering stakes work well if you know how to troubleshoot them when they're not working. I used these for a 2 week vacation and my plants were healthier than ever when I came home. It does take some trial and error and patience before you can set it and forget it, but it's worth it! If you're planning to use these while vacationing, I recommend buying these about a month in advance so that you can experiment with them and know exactly how much water you'll need in the reservoir for the amount of days you'll be gone. I did quite a bit of research before deciding to purchase these. The pricier name brand ones likely work just as well as they all function the same way, through capillary action. There are various methods to prime these stakes, so that they work well. Here's my method: - Remove the cap from the stake - Unravel and stretch out the tubing so that it's as straight as you can get it, you don't want a pinched tube - Soak everything in warm to hot water for 15-30 min - I would stretch out the tubing again to ensure there aren't any pinched areas - Get rid of any air bubbles in the stake cup (With the stake cup still submerged under the bowl of water, I tap it under against the wall of the bowl). Keep the stake cup under water. Here's the trickiest part (you'll have to find your own method of doing this properly): - Fill the tube with water (make sure there are no air bubbles in the tubing) and cap it onto the stake cup while it is still submerged. You should see a squirt of water coming out the other end of the tube. - Your stake is ready to use. Try and prevent any air bubbles getting into the tube by quickly submerging the end of the tube in your water reservoir. Stick the stake end into your soil, ideally near the center of the plant. Keep it upright and not angled. Keep the water line of your water reservoir ideally 3-5 inches below the stake. You'll have to experiment. If your water level is higher than the stake, you will drown your plant. If it's too low, then the capillary action won't work. I typically draw with a dry-erase marker where the water line is on the reservoir and check back in an hour or two to see if the plant is drawing water in. If the reservoir water line increases or stays the same, then it's likely the water line is too high and you'll need to lower the reservoir and/or pour out some water OR it's likely your reservoir is too low. Always check that there is still water inside the stake cup (it can be tough to see). You can also combine multiple stakes into one water reservoir. I was able to combine 7 small to medium pots to use 1 water reservoir. This is just a basic version of my method. There are a few sites online that will guide you on how to use these. Methods are slightly different but the principle is the same. It requires a bit of effort and can be frustrating but I swear it's worth it once you get it working! Hope this helps!

I have some Blumat watering stakes and they are working very well for years. I'm going to travel next month and was looking for expanding those stakes and found those, much cheaper than the Blumat original ones. I know how it should work, but it didn't work. I vacuum sealed the stakes, closing the lid underwater after soaking the stakes, but they dry out. The original one has much better sealing to start. I even tried to seal it with seal tape (PTFE, or plumber's tape), and close the lid underwater but the stakes were out of water the next day. I'm returning and buying the original ones. It's expensive but reliable. Also, you don't lose your plant, which you invested so much time and care.

I was torn about going with a cheaper option compared to the name brand. I first used one of these carrots to water an indoor plant that needed water every day. If I missed a day or 2 the flowers would end up dying. I put one carrot in the pot and a week went by and I didn't know if it was working. After that week water started being sucked from the pot. I found that the root system wrapped itself around the carrot and is basically using it as a straw. Seriously cool.. I went from watering everyday to filling a reservoir once a week. I'm now using it in a medicinal garden to hopefully achieve a perfect watering system. Fingers crossed

Very easy to use and should do its job right... though I will need at least a month time to find out! However, I the think the quality control of the products was loose. Out of the eight tubes, one was them was already broken in half upon arrival...and I tested out all the tubes too, one of them was bad, water couldn't flow thru. It's not horribly expensive to buy but I still think the quality control before shipping can be improved big time!

I am leaving for vacation for 26 days. I was so worried about my plants and am so happy I found this system. I have 32 plants which I have invested a lot of time and money on and I do not want to lose them. First, I made sure my plants were completely dry and almost wilted to test if it worked. I followed the instructions but modified a little. I separated the tops and bottoms and soaked everything in about two teaspoons of baking soda for more than 15 minutes (helps to disinfect). Afterword, I rinsed everything off really good, blew the air out of the hoses so I would not have air bubbles in the lines, and then reassembled everything under clean water and left them to soak in water until I was ready to install in the plant. I setup the lines and then rubber banded some glass beads to the bottom to hold the hoses to the lowest level in the container. It was amazing because the next day, I saw that the plants had drank a lot of water. I am going to re-arrange some because some plants need more water and should probably need to be on their own container. I absolutely love this product. I've included some pictures. All water bottles were topped off when I set them up last night and you can see how much then drank in just about eight hours. Oh and I was able to setup the entire system in about three hours. That's pretty good considering I live in a jungle. WOW, is all I can say. Now my friend will only need to check the plants once a week while I am gone. Anyway, I highly recommend this for all plant lovers.

I just purchased these for the third time and they have changed their materials. The plastic tubing is a lot less firm, it is susceptible to kinks and twists that can mess up water flow. I noticed this while setting them up the other day and I was careful to make sure the tubes were straightened. It's been 3 days and I noticed one of my plants was wilting and dry. The watering stake didn't work. I'm resetting it now and hoping it will work when I put it back into the plant. I went around checking the others and half of them are not working. I also have 24 or so of the older version, they have been working for a year when used as instructed, no issues at all. Now I will have to keep a close eye on these new stakes which defeats the purpose. I don't want to have to closely check my plants on a daily basis. I like checking and refilling the water bottle weekly, that has always been enough. I can't buy these again and that's disappointing, I was considering another order before I realized the issue today. I added a photo, the stakes continue to fail. The new tubing has imperfections that interfere with the flow of the water. I’m going to see if it’s possible to change out the tubing. Definitely buy from another company.

I've followed the directions and have slowly set up my plants to these watering stakes. I watch each one carefully before starting up another one. I had a peace lily and a Chinese evergreen set up and working well. I set up the anthurium and noticed the saucer kept filling up with water, it was syphoning the water too well. It is drying out and I will try setting it up again with one of the stakes. I'm not sure if it was watered too well when the stake was set up that had that happen. I'm going on vacation and I want to make sure the plants are all doing well on this system. Sometimes the stake doesn't do anything so I have to go through all the steps again. I found that when the water level of the container goes down I have to go through all the steps again, I just can't put more water in the container. I have two months to see if I can safely leave all my plants on this system. It's good for keeping the plants hydrated, I just don't know if I can leave them for two weeks and find them alive when I get back. Update: In a few days the plants have syphoned so much water their saucers are full and the soil is soaked. They will drown this way.

Plutôt pratique pour des plantes qui n’ont pas trop soif. Pour les miennes qui sont en plein soleil, le débit d’eau n’est peut-être pas suffisant. Pour la mise en fonction des arroseurs, il faut prendre son temps, comme expliqué dans les autres commentaires, et ne pas se contenter de les faire tremper 15 minutes dans l’eau. L’idéal étant de les laisser plusieurs heures tremper dans l’eau avant de les remplir d’eau et de les installer. Penser à les retirer en hivers et à gratter les racines qui restent accrochées aux cônes.

dont waste your money and time on this product. very hard to use. need to adjust the height and position of the hose otherwise, it won't work OR can drown the entire pot by pulling too much water from the bucket into the pot. the hose is also too coiled to use.

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non funziona, sono partito per 7 giorni ho perso 12 piantine di fragole, l'acqua era ancora nella bacinella.

Useless: devices didn't suck water to the plants, a friend came in to check my olace and saved the plants from drying dead. Don't count on them