Are you tired of manually Watering your Moss poles every few days?
Are you tired of having unsightly water bottles dotted around all over your home or are you
tired of walking around with your pressure sprayer?
In this video I'm going to show you how I automatically water my moss poles with my
automatic drip irrigation system.
You could be a very busy plant owner or maybe you just want to optimize the use of your
moss poles by making sure they're moist and obtaining leaves that look like that, in that
case using an automatic drip irrigation system is a good solution.
If you're really really clever or some kind of boffin and you're good with your hands
you might be able to rig something up together with parts that you get from hydroponics shops
and places like that, now I am not that way inclined at all so I use a LetPot Automatic
Drip Irrigation kit.
This is a kit that I got from a company called LetPot and it's got everything you need to
set up a system that irrigates your moss poles automatically.
All I need to water my moss poles is my phone.
I set up my LetPot app and it will water my moss poles when I want it to you could also
put it on a schedule and it'll water your moss poles when you want it to and for the
length of time that you want it to water your moss poles.
You could have your LetPot connector water your moss poles once, twice, three times a
day depending on the seasons, depending on where you are and you can also let it know
how long you want it to water your moss poles for.
I have eight moss poles connected to my automatic drip irrigation system and basically I can
water all these eight moss poles without lifting a finger.
I'm going to turn it on and you will see what it can do.
That's my nutrient solution dripping into my moss.
The setup of the system is very easy there's a little instruction booklet in the box and
the most important thing is to scan the little QR code that's in the instruction booklet
and once you do that it will take you to the LetPot website you'll be able to download
the LetPot app and that's what allows you to control the drip irrigation system you
can control your system via Bluetooth or even via Wi-Fi and that means you don't have to
be close by in order for you to control your system 'vacation' I have my system set up
down here this is the controller box it is powered by this AC adapter that you plug that
into it has Inlet and Outlet points and that's where you connect the piping that comes with
the box.
This is the inlet pipe over here you attach the piping to the inlet and on the other end
the pipe is attached to the filter and this filter is what goes into the reservoir it's
submerged into the solution that you've got in your reservoir this is acting as my reservoir
for now and I've got in there my Foliage Focus solution or you can have water or whatever's
nutrient you use to water your moss poles, important thing about this is that the filter
must always be submerged so you need to have enough solution in there to make sure that
the filter is submerged so that's the inlet pipe that's where the solution comes from
and then you've got the outlet pipe and this is what leads to the actual watering system.
My pipe goes all the way up to the top of the moss pole I'll take you up and show you
what that looks like this is the pipe that's coming from the outlet of my controller I'll
just pull that out so I can show that to you this is what that gizmo looks like the piping
is attached to a little dripper this dripper is what's going to be dripping the nutrient
solution into your moss and you can turn you can you can turn this knob there and that
adjusts how much liquid is coming out of your pipe so if you want a steady stream you can
open it completely and if you just want it to drip you can close that a little bit and
this is the spike that is attached to the pipe and again that's just an easy attachment
you just squeeze that in and that is what holds the piping in place on your moss pole
so it's not wiggling around and going every which way so this section is now attached
to another section so that's attached to a whole other spike and adjust a gizmo and that
goes into my next moss pole and so on and so on and so on you can have as many moss
poles as you want attached to your device but of course the power is not infinite so
it will become it will struggle a little bit you probably couldn't have 20.
I don't know I'm just saying I haven't tried it but I'll put this one back the more moss
poles you have the bigger reservoir you need because that means you you're going through
a lot more nutrient solution or a lot more water and remember you don't want your filter
to not be submerged.
I do have to say though that it does take a little bit of adjusting it does take a little
bit of time to understand how the irrigation drip system works and how it works in your
setting well you might want to have a play with the settings to figure out exactly when
when do you want to water your moss poles and for how long you want to water your moss
poles for because for example if you've been keeping your moss poles moist you probably
don't need it to be running at full flow every day so maybe you want to run it maybe you
know once in two days for five minutes you know you want it dripping and not pouring
these are things that you just have to have a play with the system and figure out what
works for you I haven't exactly figured out what's working for me at the moment so I'm
just giving it a try and because it's summer here in Melbourne some days it's really really
hot some days it's not so I'm having to make these adjustments but it's really good to
be able to do that without having to lug jugs and jugs and bottles everywhere and just easily
water my moss poles as I need to one of the reasons it's really really important for you
to figure out how you need to water your moss poles and what settings you need to use you
don't want to have too much water or nutrient solution going through your moss polebecause
this is invariably going to end up pulling in your cache pot and when that happens you're
going to have way too much water in your cache pot and your plant is going to risk root rot
and you don't want to do that that's the last thing we want to do so you need to make sure
that you're getting just enough nutrient solution of water in your moss that it's not affecting
your cache pot so a little balance a little dance to be had there but I'm sure it's something
that you can figure out.
So just make sure you're keeping an eye on those cache pots and making sure they're not
getting flooded.
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I'm really loving how this rig is going to revolutionize how I water my moss poles going
forward.
I'm actually tempted to get a few more and just dot them everywhere I've got my moss
poles because that means my moss poles are moist like that I touch them there's no crinkly
sounds they're moist all the time and that means that my plants will grow better.
If you want to grab yourself one of these LetPot automatic drip irrigation kits just
check out the link in the description below you can use my code 10LECAQUEEN and that'll
give you a 10% discount of the price of the irrigation kit.
I would certainly recommend that you give it a try it will definitely rock your world.
LetPot advertise this kit as a way to irrigate your plants that are living in soil, automate
the process and make it easier for you.
The second I saw this kit I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it I knew I had to put
a Leca Queen spin on it and I think this is a fantastic spin!
I love it and I know you will love it too but if you don't want to be faffing around
with reservoirs and electricity and all this kind of thing that is also just okay because
it's all just personal preference at the end of the day.
Watch this next video where I show you how to water your moss poles the good old-fashioned
way I'll see you there [Music]
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