After you fill with soil &amp; plant would you water from top to wet soil or just fill from the bottom w/ water only?
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Always fill the bottom up to capacity, the roots drink on a tomato plant, they don't like getting their leaves wet. When I first planted them, I did water the top a little as you can safely do that as plants are so tiny. When full grown, the complete bottom is full of roots.
365745
The planter is hollow, so dirt will fill the entire planter, btw these are really great! We love them.
1199688
Would that mean only water/nutrients? If so then the water would leak out of the lower levels. Each "planter" has a hole in the side at the bottom and then any excess from on top leaks into the next level.
2074211
you need to keep jugs of water near the plants. It's a fairly straight forward physics principle to draw the water from the jug to the plant. That said, you have to make sure there are NO kinks ANYWHERE along the hose line...any kink means it doesn't work (and if you read my review, you'll see that this is difficult to prevent, based on the manufacturing process).
2054917
I flattened the ground soil then sat the unit on top. I didn't use anything but a compacted peat moss and top soil mix to fill the cavities. I wish that I had started with a cheaper filler for the deeper side, but didn't think about it until after I started filling it. I grew tomatoes and flowers. They turned out beautiful.
243609
No bottom....it is intended to leach water back into the soil....I placed 2' of river rock in the bottom of the hole. It works really well and can handle a lot of water. Top and sides only. I opted for the top drain attachment just in case I needed to drop in a sump pump.
467029
The bottom piece is the water tank. Therefore, you have to lift the top piece and you can fill the water tank from the top.
1008408
Yes you can mix the nutrients in the same water and then water your plants. Not sure if that's what you were asking for.
2080699
It truly depends on the grow material you plan on using. If your starters are in Rockwell cubes then no water in resevoir. To me it's only used with water if your starters are already rooted, then I would fill it just over the air stones, make sure the stones are covered well and check level daily. Hope this helps, check me out on u tube I teach on there everything u will ever need to know about growing. My channel is mrbigdwc73, hope this helps
663843
Just plant then about 1 1/2 inches beneath the soil, vertically, water and your good to go. Mine are all up and flowering. I've found that vertical placement lets Mother Nature the pattern for growth.
254777
Put the spikes all the way in because the water oozes out from them into the soil. It doesn't just drip (I think)
1077151
I think if you have a level surface and you line it first so the liner goes up the sides and use a soil that will absorb the water, it would be fine. Garden soil usually has absorbing beads in it. I placed mine on the grass and lined it with weed liner and it worked great. Once you have all the soil in it, it is very stable and the plants are beautiful.
193561
I would do that but using small stones on bottom so there is some drainage for the soil to avoid saturation.
1252869
I water like you would any other plant and once in a while put some plant food in the water. I also have it in a planter where you can put water in the bottom part and the plant will use it as needed but must say it drinks up a lot of water. The plant has grown to almost double the size in a couple months.
2037735
The volume of the container is good. You could just use rocks at the bottom to facilitate water running out of the soil. I drilled a few holes at the bottom of the container (it was very easy) and have had no problems. I like the container very much. It is light and holds a lot of soil.
2221200
If you are asking whether the water in globe part will still come out if there is soil in the neck, yes; if you are asking whether you can still fill it up with soil in the neck, the answer is maybe - depends on how tightly the soil is packed. I used a skinny wooden skewer to unclog the neck, and filled it by dunking it in a pail of water. I concluded that it's too much work and haven't used them for months.
1814047
Agree with other comment. container has to be higher than the plants in order to allow the water to drain down. I put the plants on the floor and the container on a stand above and it worked great.