adjacent, that's a helpful suggestion and I might try that, but I was hoping people might know of an equation already.
gabriel, a good equation would simply have a variable for different plant absorption rates, etc.
The_Engineer, could you explain how the diffusion equation would work in...
Anyone know an equation for comparing water absorption by plotted plants vs. evaporation of the water collecting in the pot's water collector? That is, if I water a plant and much of the water leaks through to the collection area how much of that leaked water will evaporate vs. be absorbed by...