Emilya Green
Well-Known Member
I hate the idea only because it is unnecessary. Just water more slowly. It takes me about 3 hours to get watering done in my Geopots, because I start off with only about a quart on each plant, slowly applied across the entire top, and then I walk away for a half hour before giving any more. Even then, I still go slow, and maybe add another quart before I walk away again. Then, following my proper watering guide, I come back in an hour and carefully water around the outside edge and up to where the last transplant's rootball is, with another quart. By this time the water is starting to soak in really well, and instead of flowing out of the sides or finding a path to the bottom, I am now seeing good suction on the top surface as I add more water. In another half hour or so, I come back again and this time concentrate on the middle portion of the container, right on top of the old rootball, and I give that area a couple of quarts, attempting to move the soil out of that region toward the outside of the container. A half hour later, I again water the outside edges, trying to move that soil toward the center and make the outside edges the wettest area in the container.
It really is a complicated system that I use to migrate soil around inside of the container and it takes patience to water a cloth bag properly and completely. If this sort of patient watering isn't for you, then by all means find a better method, like dunking the whole thing, putting it in a bucket to water it, or wrapping it in plastic or duck tape... but nothing beats a proper and slow watering, or even a medium fast 2 step watering, where you water to runoff once and then several hours later, water to runoff again. Watering is my zen time, and the dog and I sit in the grow room for hours sometimes, reading, meditating, listening to music or TV...
