Archives for large plants

Ficus Lyrata – Designer’s Plant

Architects love ficus lyrata because of it’s interesting shaped leaves.  We love our ficus lyrata and have it in our living room.  This plant has grown to be a sprawling tree.  It is 30+ years old.  A lot of sunlight and a vaulted ceiling give this plant big possibilities.  Ficus lyrata has beauty, structure, and point of interest.  One of HydroSpike’s favorites.

Ficus Lyrata 30 years old plant tree

 

Increase Your Water Supply!

Using HydroSpike is convenient, but when you want to increase your supply of water, “daisy chain” a series of water containers with some tubing and use the siphon principle to increase the supply of water to your plants.  One of our customers also suggests to use standard tubing, for example 1/4 inch diameter when connecting the water containers.  Thanks for great feedback HydroSpike customers!  You guys are the best!

Siphon Water Containers

 

 

HydroSpike’s First Video!!!!

Check out our first video production!  Automatic Vacation Plant Watering with HydroSpike TM. Happy Plants & Happy Owners, a HydroSpike specialty 🙂  We also like to laugh, so hope you get a little chuckle out of our video. Hope to have more videos to share in the future.  Keep up the vacationing, we got your plants covered!

Ficus Benjamina + HydroSpike

Ficus benjamina, commonly known as the Weeping Fig, Benjamin’s Fig, or the Ficus Tree and often sold in stores as just a “Ficus”, is a species of fig tree, native to south and southeast Asia and Australia.  We love our ficus, and have a massive tree that is 30+ years in our living room.  This is our smaller plant, and is getting its daily drink from HydroSpike.  The trees can grow large, so when on vacation, put in a few HydroSpikes, especially in warm weather.  The tree will need the hydration if gone for a couple of weeks.

Ficus Plant

Corn in the Garden

We have a few corn stalks growing this summer. Planted from special seed that was *supposed* to be really tasty. However, this species didn’t do it for me! Although corn is so abundant, different varieties have special taste and nutrition. We’ll be trying more in future growing seasons.

Corn in our Garden

Vacation Plant Watering

HydroSpike’s very existence is all about addressing this crucial problem that gardeners and plant owners face.  How to keep plants alive while we are away??   Especially in hot weather.  Here is HydroSpike in action!  This large leafed plant needs water, and it seems to be doing fine for 2 weeks at a time when we are gone…The plant is pretty large, which then needs multiple spikes.