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- Keeping your plants healthy using the just-in-time watering principle based on capillary action
Product Description
The HydroSpike is a simple, effective method for keeping your plants watered, without your constant attention. It works by automatically siphoning water from a nearby container when the surrounding soil becomes dryer than the ceramic spike. The spike replenishes the moisture at the same rate your plant draws it from the soil, thereby maintaining an optimum moisture level. Perfect for keeping plants watered while on vacation, or when you are too busy to tend your pla… More >>
Hydrospike Hs-300 3-pack Worry-free Automatic Watering Kit
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I’ll start by saying, I’m not much of a greenthumb. One of my friends gave me a little bonsai tree as a housewarming gift a year or so ago, and it has since turned a nice crisp yellow because I put the plant in a room I don’t often frequent, and kept forgetting to water it. Since then, I’ve started using these hydrospikes to keep my plants watered without constantly having to remember when I last watered them. Works really well! I keep a cup of water hidden behind the pot, and I fill the cup maybe once every couple weeks. It definitely makes it easier to keep your plants nice and green.
Every once in a while, I’ve managed to leave the plant unattended for too long and it sucks the entire cup dry — at which point, it’s easy to get it going again, just refill the spike with water up to the brim to get the water flowing again.
All in all, I think it’s a good product, works well, and seems to be cheaper than some of the equivalents. Will be buying some more if I get some more plants!
Rating: 5 / 5
I half expected these things not to work and out plants would be dead after returning from a holiday vacation. Surprisingly, as simple as these are they worked great. Plants kept with constant moisture. Now we leave them in all the time and just refill the vases. Someone should make a tank that can clip on the outside of the pot. Only note is that you need to fill the ceramic plug completely full with water and immerse the tubes to ensure the capillary action works to pull water into the spike.
Rating: 5 / 5
The concept seems simple enough, and scientific enough. I’m just not sure it was supposed to work like this. I hooked up 6 tomato plants in large pots and 5 flowering plants in medium size pots on my outdoor balcony. Temps were in the low 90′s, and I used three 2 1/2 gallon reservoirs. All of the reservoirs were drained dry in three days; however, the indoor/outdoor carpet underneath the flowering plants was soaked. Obviously, I don’t recommended them for vacation watering.
Rating: 2 / 5
I purchased this watering system in preparation for summer travel. I have been using it for about a week and it works great. My outdoor plants have not drooped or looked parched once since I set-up the spikes. My one piece of advice to you is that if you have plants that are on the larger side, especially plants which are located outside, you might want to purchase more than one set since these plants might require two spikes depending on the length of your travel.
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought one pack with some big reservations. Plants on my balcony are constantly dry, no matter how much I water them – and it’s messy with water going everywhere. I read instructions carefully, but they’re very simple.
I filled each spike with water, put a big, filled to the top, Poland Spring 1L bottle next to plants in the planter, put the spike in the middle of each plant and put the little tube from the spike into the big water bottles. That was Thu night, and Sunday night, after 3 days of 90+ weather, and my balcony getting full sun all day [western exposure], I went out, as usual, to water all my plants, and to check on the 2 with spikes. I was amazed to find wet soil and both water bottles more than half empty! What a relief and surprise. That means I can probably refill the water bottles once a week and not worry too much about my plants during the week. Love the product!
Rating: 5 / 5