ORIMERC 50ft 1/4 inch Plants Self Watering Capillary Wick Rope Cord DIY Vacation Potted Flower Sitter Hydroponic Wicking Planter Pot Garden Seeds Starting Seedling Automatic Waterer System Device Line

Works as described, wicked water very well, easy to use, plant did great started bottom feeding after about 10 days , seems to be durable enough for another round of growing. and the size was prefect.

Works as it should. Used this in a concrete pour combined with brick that was designed to water internally and come out the flashing at the bottom, but we could not incorporate the flashing. So I used tubes on the inside of the poor to match up with the brick and I wrapped the tubes With this wicking material and let the wick hang out the bottom where flashing would’ve normally been placed. It works perfectly. Now during the change in seasons, the concrete will work similarly to the 6 x 12 brick that the house was built with in the 1950s and the moisture can get outside. You don’t have to leave a Tail. You just cut flush and don’t mortar over the end. This would be very useful for watering plants or getting moisture out of a place that you have trouble accessing like a void in a boat. You could drill a small hole put this inside and let the wick pull the moisture out to the larger atmosphere. This could help prevent or slow rotting that happens inside voids on boats. Small boats, of course.

Such a simple and inexpensive thing, yet it works surprising well for keeping plants alive during extended trips. I was worried about root rot, but that didn’t happen at all. My biggest advice is to set it up a few days in advance so you can troubleshoot. I had to elevate some of my lower pots so that they didn’t overflow, and some of my taller plants just overflowed anyway for some reason (quicker draining soil?). This made for a stressful travel day because I didn’t allot enough time to work out the kinks. That’s on me, though, not the product itself.

This watering system is easy to install and should work well if used outside or inside as long as plants are placed above a water container. It did not work for me because I tried to use the rope inside with a water container placed next to the plant (instead of underneath), and some water was dripping on my counter from the part of the rope which was not in the water container or in the plant.

Large quantity. Works much better than I expected. 3 uses: 1) will wick water from the saucer back in to the pot! 2) poke into the bottom of a pot and place the pot into a larger bowl / reservoir with something underneath the pot to raise it up a few inches. Will wick water from the reservoir into the soil. 3) holiday use - placing this in a bottle / vase next to the plant BUT warning! make sure the saucer below the plant can hold overflow! I misjudged while testing an flooded a desk. The level of water in the reservoir can't be higher than what is holding overflow underneath the plant, = reservoir needs to be lower than the saucer.

(Updated below) Hands down the best wick I’ve found. I tested a piece of nylon rope from the home improvement store, another brand of wicking rope from Amazon, and this one. I took equal lengths, and placed one end of each in the same container of water with the other ends in separate cups.This one out performed them all by a wide margin. I haven’t tried them in plants yet, but I’m sure they will work out wonderfully.Update 6/8/2025: I've now used this in a wicking set-up (from a bottom reservoir, up into the dirt from below) for a tomato plant in a 3 gallon fabric pot, in the Texas sun. It has worked every bit as well as I had hoped it would. My tomato plant is doing crazy good. The soil ALWAYS feels just slightly moist, while still being very loose and friable. I've been using it for over a month, and have not watered in any way, other than the wicking action of THIS ROPE (and one rain shower). The plant is still growing rapidly, and is currently wicking on average about 1 gallon per day through 4 pieces of this rope, each extended about 5" up into the soil. As it continues to grow in size and set tomatoes, it's demand for water is sure to increase...but at this point, I have no doubt at all that the wicks will keep up just fine.Get, ya some!

These worked well and kept my flowers alive while we were away for a few days!

I tried using the wicks to water my cannabis plants while I was on vacation for 4 days. I came home and my plants were droopy, they were only about a foot tall so I figured the wicks would work. Unfortunately when I felt the wicks they were dry. I had three wicks in each plant container coming out of a five gallon water bottle. I might have had it set up wrong so it could have been my fault. I think if you put the water container above the plants it might work.