HydroSpike’s Shooting Star

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  I bought these to keep my plants watered while I was away for Christmas vacation. I was debating whether to use the glass globe type self-watering kits, but since they are only supposed to last for 3-5 days I needed something better. I somehow came across these HydroSpikes a couple days before I was leaving. Thanks to Amazon’s quick overnight shipping, I had them in time to give it a try. The packaging was extremely easy to open. Just pop open and uncoil the watering tubes. You have to then open the green cap and fill with water. This helps to start the siphoning process I believe. After inserting the spikes into the soil, I filled a gallon-sized bowl with water and placed the other end of the tubes inside the bowl. The only negative thing I found at this point was that the tubes seemed to just float on top of the water. This could be due to their light weight and that the tubes wanted to coil back up. I fixed this by weighting the tubes down into the bottom of the bowl with a small metal wrench. If I had more time I probably could have found a better solution for the tube problem.

  I left for vacation on Dec 18th and returned Jan 4th. When I came back, my 3 plants were fortunately still alive and well. I have 2 medium sized plants and 1 small one. Each had their own spike. The water in the bowl was a little less than half empty compared to where it was when I left (to the very brim). So the spikes supplied just enough water to keep the plants going for just over 2 weeks. I probably could have gone a month using these spikes and the amount of water in the supply bowl. This product worked great for what I needed it to do. Maybe if the kit came with it’s own weights for the tubes, I’d give it 5 stars.

  –LuN3yDaV3