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- Creating a self watering window sill set up. Want my make shift water butt to top up my main plant watering source via wicking/ capillary action. Water butt is on the ground and is 15L and the water source for my plants on my window sill is 12L. Why is it not working?
I am trying to create a reasonably self sustainable watering system for the plants on my work window sill. Currently I have a 12L bottle (half empty) which (via wicking/capillary action) is watering x2 tomato plants, x1 courgette plant, x1 sweet pepper plant, and it is all going very well. Obviously after getting this to work well, I have now considered myself a person of science and have sought to expand my new found skill set.
Alas, this does not seem to be going the way I imagined. The bright idea was to create a make shift water butt on the ground which has a greater volume than my window sill water source so that it could top up my window sill with zero effort....this does not appear to be working. I'm trying to establish if it is as a result of the following reasons:
1. Even though the volume of the ground based water butt is greater that window sill water source, gravity is ruining it and the water butt needs to be higher than the source it is feeding.
2. Even though there are 4 plants slowly pulling water through capillary action, this is not enough movement to pull water through from the ground source.
3. The water butt needs to have a X amount increase of volume to feed the window sill.
4. I need more than x1 wicking thread between the two water sources.
5. This is not how science works.
6. Other.
Alas, this does not seem to be going the way I imagined. The bright idea was to create a make shift water butt on the ground which has a greater volume than my window sill water source so that it could top up my window sill with zero effort....this does not appear to be working. I'm trying to establish if it is as a result of the following reasons:
1. Even though the volume of the ground based water butt is greater that window sill water source, gravity is ruining it and the water butt needs to be higher than the source it is feeding.
2. Even though there are 4 plants slowly pulling water through capillary action, this is not enough movement to pull water through from the ground source.
3. The water butt needs to have a X amount increase of volume to feed the window sill.
4. I need more than x1 wicking thread between the two water sources.
5. This is not how science works.
6. Other.