Patients Plants

          Have been experimenting on this quite lately. Due to long trips back to 'kampung' or hometown or going on vacations, leaving the plants unattended just seems as guilty as having the plants starve. huhu..The first attempt was using a normal water bottle by turning it upside down and punching a tiny hole to the cap. By allowing the water to flow down, a string was connected through it from the inside of the bottle. It worked for a while but i couldn't control the amount of water flow and how long it would last. By the next day, the bottle was empty already.

Experiments on water drips

       Later then with some excess to drips used at the local hospital, i was able to recycle it and by having its tube connected to it, it was easy to control the water drips. From slow to fast flow. That did the trick for the time being. A few lasted within 3-5 days while others only lasted a day also. Couldn't get an exact control on the drip flow controller.. and another thing it depends on the volumn of water which also makes it flow faster or slower..
       So the experiments goes on. Should invent a gadget that can provide water for the plants at certain hours or with a precise drip controller to it. They do have one in the market, some what like a teardrop tube but i havent tried it yet. With the price that's put on the product, id put it on KIV and try my own experiments first =P..
     

My small balcony garden

          Oh yes,the last but not least idea that could at least be able to give a little but not much water to the plants is using the evaporation method.  Put a small container with water and cover it with a bigger container upside down (picture as follow). So the water will evaporate up and back down from the big container above it. works for now just to keep the ground moist a little. I guess the bigger the container the more watter it would collect. Any other ideas to keep plants watered during long trips to buzz me up. Id be eager to know about it..

Spider Plant with the small container.

Jasmine plant with its own container

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