Leaving town, watering ideas?

Caloran

Active Member
Growing a few plants in some 7 gallon pots (will be force flowering as I live up north hence in pots). Im going to be leaving town for 3 days. It should be 95f while im gone so im worried about keeping them alive. I have been watering them lately and 2 days seems tops before they dry out and need water. Being in pots I can obviously move them so I intend to move them into a nice shady spot while im gone. There any easy way to feed them some water or tips to keeping them cool I may not have thought of?
 

Shelby420

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The small pots are going to be your problem, they will dry our fast. If you can I recommend using drip system with a timer on it. Yes it will put chlorine in your pot, but at least they wont dry up and die. Just reintroduce the beneficial bacteria with some aerated compost tea with molasses.
 
Seven one gallon pots or seven gallon pots? If they're seven gallon pots just soak the heck out of them before you leave and they should be fine. If they're one gallon pots then you'll need a friend.
 

hoonry

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put the pots in large saucers - any kind of squat container that can hold water and is a few inches bigger in diameter than the pot should work. soak the pots thoroughly, and fill up the saucer with water - when the water in the pot is used up the roots will wick the saucer water up and this should work for being gone for 3 days. I know it's a little ugly to leave your plants sitting in water like that but they can take it for a couple of days. putting the plants in the shade is kind of a shame - you're depriving the plant of the awesome conditions it could be getting.
 

Urhighness88

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I would get mulch if you have son handy and layer the top of the soil. An maybe use garden bosses idea too. If its gonna hit almost 100 the mulch will keep the moisture in and the sun from beating on the soil directly.
 
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