HESTYA16 Pack Plant Self Watering Stakes Insert Automatic Watering Devices Self Watering Spikes Indoor Outdoor Plant Watering for Vacation

I am leaving for vacation for 26 days. I was so worried about my plants and am so happy I found this system. I have 32 plants which I have invested a lot of time and money on and I do not want to lose them. First, I made sure my plants were completely dry and almost wilted to test if it worked. I followed the instructions but modified a little. I separated the tops and bottoms and soaked everything in about two teaspoons of baking soda for more than 15 minutes (helps to disinfect). Afterword, I rinsed everything off really good, blew the air out of the hoses so I would not have air bubbles in the lines, and then reassembled everything under clean water and left them to soak in water until I was ready to install in the plant. I setup the lines and then rubber banded some glass beads to the bottom to hold the hoses to the lowest level in the container. It was amazing because the next day, I saw that the plants had drank a lot of water. I am going to re-arrange some because some plants need more water and should probably need to be on their own container. I absolutely love this product. I've included some pictures. All water bottles were topped off when I set them up last night and you can see how much then drank in just about eight hours. Oh and I was able to setup the entire system in about three hours. That's pretty good considering I live in a jungle. WOW, is all I can say. Now my friend will only need to check the plants once a week while I am gone. Anyway, I highly recommend this for all plant lovers.

I've followed the directions and have slowly set up my plants to these watering stakes. I watch each one carefully before starting up another one. I had a peace lily and a Chinese evergreen set up and working well. I set up the anthurium and noticed the saucer kept filling up with water, it was syphoning the water too well. It is drying out and I will try setting it up again with one of the stakes. I'm not sure if it was watered too well when the stake was set up that had that happen. I'm going on vacation and I want to make sure the plants are all doing well on this system. Sometimes the stake doesn't do anything so I have to go through all the steps again. I found that when the water level of the container goes down I have to go through all the steps again, I just can't put more water in the container. I have two months to see if I can safely leave all my plants on this system. It's good for keeping the plants hydrated, I just don't know if I can leave them for two weeks and find them alive when I get back.Update: In a few days the plants have syphoned so much water their saucers are full and the soil is soaked. They will drown this way.

I have some Blumat watering stakes and they are working very well for years. I'm going to travel next month and was looking for expanding those stakes and found those, much cheaper than the Blumat original ones. I know how it should work, but it didn't work. I vacuum sealed the stakes, closing the lid underwater after soaking the stakes, but they dry out. The original one has much better sealing to start. I even tried to seal it with seal tape (PTFE, or plumber's tape), and close the lid underwater but the stakes were out of water the next day. I'm returning and buying the original ones. It's expensive but reliable. Also, you don't lose your plant, which you invested so much time and care.

Surprised by the lower reviews, I feel like some folks didn't read the instructions properly. You absolutely have to soak the spikes for a while, and make sure that the water receptacles are below the pots. These helped our plants stay alive for the 3 weeks we were gone! Some wilted a bit, but thats simply cause we didn't put enough water! Another commenter here gave some excellent tips as well, I recommend these if you don't want to break the bank with the name brand ones.

Very easy to use and should do its job right... though I will need at least a month time to find out! However, I the think the quality control of the products was loose. Out of the eight tubes, one was them was already broken in half upon arrival...and I tested out all the tubes too, one of them was bad, water couldn't flow thru. It's not horribly expensive to buy but I still think the quality control before shipping can be improved big time!

I just purchased these for the third time and they have changed their materials. The plastic tubing is a lot less firm, it is susceptible to kinks and twists that can mess up water flow. I noticed this while setting them up the other day and I was careful to make sure the tubes were straightened.It's been 3 days and I noticed one of my plants was wilting and dry. The watering stake didn't work. I'm resetting it now and hoping it will work when I put it back into the plant. I went around checking the others and half of them are not working. I also have 24 or so of the older version, they have been working for a year when used as instructed, no issues at all. Now I will have to keep a close eye on these new stakes which defeats the purpose. I don't want to have to closely check my plants on a daily basis. I like checking and refilling the water bottle weekly, that has always been enough. I can't buy these again and that's disappointing, I was considering another order before I realized the issue today.I added a photo, the stakes continue to fail. The new tubing has imperfections that interfere with the flow of the water. I’m going to see if it’s possible to change out the tubing. Definitely buy from another company.

Well we followed the directions, soaked the cones, filled them, and stuck them in our lg outdoor pots. We pulled all the pots together, had a lg bucket in the middle where the wires from the cones came down into to draw the water. The 4 gal bucket was filled to the top and when we came home from a week's vaca the bucket was half full and the plants looked fine. It was hot summer weather but this system worked well it seems. It pays to do the research! 😉👍👍

Too early to report on effectiveness, will set up for 2 week vacation to see how they work?

Donne trop d'eau aux plantes.

Estuve un mes fuera de casa. Durante mi ausencia hubo un par de olas de calor tremendas y, aún así, las plantas estaban intactas. También es cierto que, a parte de seguir las instrucciones punto por punto, puse todas las plantas juntas en un lugar con luz, pero sin sol directo para generar un ambiente húmedo entre ellas. Lo seguiré usando.

Acquistate per irrigare le piante sul terrazzo per una settimana, al rientro tutte le piante (16 vasi) erano in perfette condizioni. Il collegamento non è stato semplicissimo ma se fatto nel modo corretto funzionaConsiglio 1: posizionare il contenitore/bacinella d’acqua più in alto rispetto alla pianta da bagnareConsiglio 2: quando si collega il tubicino dalla bacinella alla pianta bisogna ricordarsi di aspirare tutta l’aria contenuta altrimenti non funzionaHa superato le aspettative, consiglio l’acquisto!

Plutôt pratique pour des plantes qui n’ont pas trop soif. Pour les miennes qui sont en plein soleil, le débit d’eau n’est peut-être pas suffisant.Pour la mise en fonction des arroseurs, il faut prendre son temps, comme expliqué dans les autres commentaires, et ne pas se contenter de les faire tremper 15 minutes dans l’eau. L’idéal étant de les laisser plusieurs heures tremper dans l’eau avant de les remplir d’eau et de les installer. Penser à les retirer en hivers et à gratter les racines qui restent accrochées aux cônes.