HELP!!! My plants will be unattended for 2 weeks!

[Joker52]

My plants are 18days old today. In three weeks i'll be going on a trip...for two weeks. That means when i leave they'll be almost 6 weeks old. I would flower by then but then i'm gone for another 2 weeks.

What should i do to keep my plants from dying? They'll be all alone for two weeks and that's a long time without water and i would have to keep the lights really high.

 

[Stoney McFried]

My friend used a this trick for her houseplants....she put some water in a bathtub, then put a brick in the water, and set the plant container on the brick....apparently the water travels up through the brick and into the plant's roots. I've never tried it though, but she swears by it.

 

[Joker52]

put the drainage holes on the brick?

 

[Stoney McFried]

put the drainage holes on the brick?

Yes, thats what she does...I don't know if it matters what kind of pot youre using.

 

[RandyRocket]

you could hook up some type of iv style drip.

 

[Stoney McFried]

you could hook up some type of iv style drip.

wonder if one of those dog or cat watering systems could get rigged to work?

 

[RandyRocket]

May be a pump on a timer also.

 

[Stoney McFried]

Too techy for me...id get some tubes and try to attach them to two liter bottles and poke little holes in the tubes...and it prolly wouldnt work, lol.

May be a pump on a timer also.

 

[tusseltussel]

i have left mine for ten days an they were ok a little wilty but ok a few more days and they would prbably have died..... do you know anyone who blowes glass if so you can have then make you like a big hollow with a pointy stem that could be filled with water and poked into the soil

 

[grobofotwanky]

I have used hydroton as a top dressing for soil and it cut my watering back to once every 10 or 11 days.

 

[Budda_Luva]

yeah go look in the hydro/aero part of roll it up and ask them there the pro they will give u a good drip system

 

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[tusseltussel]

I have used hydroton as a top dressing for soil and it cut my watering back to once every 10 or 11 days.

good one that would work really wel even just rocks on top would help it keep some moister from evaporating off the top which is your first problem when not watering

 

[Budda_Luva]

and if u do try the drip system this is juss my opinion i was say get a BIG ass bucket maybe a 5 gallon water jug so that it last the whole 2 weeks

 

[kulan hunter]

wow is that good for the plant to only be watered every 10-11 days?
just asking as i would think that the water would be going stagnant by then and the lack of D/O in the water would be an issue

 

[Stoney McFried]

https://www.buyaquaglobes.com/?cid=451244 A lot of stuff you see on tv can be found at walgreens too....try there.

 

[Joker52]

aren't there crystals that i can put on the soil that will let out moisture? I'm thinking of getting some 2liter bottles and just poking a hole and having the top open.

 

[primeralives]

kill them... you dont want to leave plants unattended for that long even if they are watered.. you dont want your land lord popping in when your gone, or the neighborhood hoodlems breaking in and blowing up your spot

 

[tusseltussel]

https://www.buyaquaglobes.com/?cid=451244 A lot of stuff you see on tv can be found at walgreens too....try there.

well look at that thats what i meant why do they always beat me to it but iguess if you know someone who blowes glass you could get like weed leaves and whatever blown into it

 

[Joker52]

i don't think i could even kill them, i'm gonna lock up tight though/