Submitted 2 weeks ago by glimse@lemmy.world to houseplants@mander.xyz
I’ve been taking my plants to the kitchen to water/drain 1-2 pots at a time but…I may or may not have purchased 10 more plants yesterday and that’s a lot of back and forth. They’re mostly in my foyer which is a half level down.
I’ve been thinking about getting something I can keep in the garage (next to the foyer) and quickly set up/disassemble like this:
Anyone have any other suggestions or ideas?
Do you need to flood/drain them? Our plants do quite well with regular watering inside their pots, without removing them from their spot.
I’m really bad at judging when to stop and have killed a few plants from overwatering without drainage. I haven’t lost one since I started flooding!
OP might find that some plant saucer/drip trays would be a suitable solution.
I have some for the larger plants but I’ve got some hanging plants and a lot of small ones with tiny trays that only give you so much leeway on overfilling. Also no guarantee all the soil will be soaked!
I don’t have a ton of experience but I have a 100% success rate this way. I’m not quite at the experimentation phase of plantkeeping, I just want to stick with what I know works
Why not just take a bucket?
About 15 of them are on the same watering schedule. With a table I can water like 6 at a time, let it drain, then come back for the next set
Polkira@piefed.ca 1 week ago
I think this is a pretty neat idea! For some smaller pots I use a tray filled with water (linked below) for them to butt-chug and then I move them to an empty tray to dry before putting them back in their place
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4” plant pot to help with scale.
I’ve seen others use their bathtub but I like the idea of not risking dirt/perlite/etc. clogging up the drains. Depending on your drain you could use a metal debris catcher thingy like I have in my laundry room sink (I found mine at the dollar store):
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glimse@lemmy.world 1 week ago
This is great!! Do you happen to know what those trays are called? I’ve seen them before but didn’t know what to search for.
I just started propagating some plants so I’ve got a bunch of little cups to do now
Polkira@piefed.ca 1 week ago
Lol I'm glad you found them because I did not know what they were called. I picked em up from my local nursery, they're pretty sturdy and were under $10 CAD