Waterings in enough are necessary for normal activity of plants. And that it was not problem for the period of your departure — there are many ways of maintaining humidity for them.
Often we leave the house for long time in business trip or on rest, leaving houseplants which require care and watering. If there is nobody to help with watering of flowers, it is possible to save plants from drought by own forces. Let's try to understand as it to make with own hands. There are devices of watering of industrial production which perfectly cope with the functions. But it is possible to arrange autonomous watering and the hands. Before it it is necessary it is abundant to water plants, to remove dry leaves and escapes.
Ways and methods of watering:
Wick
For match it is the best of all to use the cut tapes from kapron tights, they quicker everything other materials are capable to transfer moisture to plants. At 5 liter plastic bottle to cut off the upper narrow part with cover and to put bottle in the center of table, to fill it with water. Around to expose flowerpots. To lower the cut tapes from kapron tights one end in bottle with water, they have to get to the bottom and fix them on it, for example by paper clip, and to lower other end in flowerpots — in big it is possible to put two ribbons, or to cut off wider. Water will gradually come to flowers, maintaining humidity.
Important:
To adjust the necessary number of intake of liquid by the flowers, put one pot on match in three months prior to departure and look, how fast it will decrease. It is convenient to note its level marker directly on capacity.
Also, it is possible to fix at planting of flowers part of match at the bottom of pot, above drainage, and to leave another outside. After that in pot the plant lands. And every time as you are going to leave, just you put pot in the container with water.
Plastic bottle
Very simple method. On cover make openings sharp object. The bottle is filled with water and put in pot with plant neck down. After that it is necessary to evaluate time and moisture content of the soil. Proceeding from it to decide how many openings need to be made in cover.
It is possible to buy ready double pallet for autowatering. In internal put flowerpots with flowers, and pour water into external. Between pallets there is rug which will absorb water from the lower pallet and to give it to plants.
Hydrogel
Granules a lot of liquid detains in itself, only 2 grams can absorb in themselves up to 500 grams of moisture. In a dry form reminds sugar crystals which size from 1 to 4 mm. He is killed in water then, granules bulk up and become similar to gel, in the diameter increase by 3 cm. Then they are stacked in flowerpot around plant and put not under direct sunshine, and far away from window, deep into rooms or create scattered sunlight.
Agrarian hydrogel is produced colourless, and is intended for protection of plants against moisture loss, and here its version aquagrunt — dense multi-colored figures, intended only for the decorative purposes.
Unused granules should be stored in the fridge on the lower shelf or in the dark place at the room temperature.
Aqua Globes devices
It is flask with cone, it is placed in the soil, for gradual return of moisture to the earth. The cone happens different flowers and well looks in flowerpot. But it is better to use such device only on the weekend days, not to leave for the period of the holiday as waters leaves flask very little. And the flower can begin to dry up.
Clever pot with autowatering
Consists of two tanks: in the first the plant lands, and water is poured into the second. Through openings on pot, the soil is filled with moisture, is also equipped with float which shows height of water in pallet. There are similar designs in the form of cachepot.
You should not forget that each plant is individual, and demands different amount of moisture. It is quietly possible to leave many without watering for long time. These ways are not applied to stem and sheet succulents, the having fabrics in which moisture reserves collect: cactaceous, spurge family, houseleek family, aloe, haworthia, agave, yucca, aspirida, cacti.
Cannot long do without watering: azalea, cyclamen, calathea. If you often leave the house, then you should not get hygrophilous houseplants.