Greetings from Warsaw, Poland

Hello everybody,

I have just bought my first Moth orchid. I will try hard to keep it alive for some time.

Good luck,
Tom

 

Hi!

I read everything I can find, here on the forum and on Phalaenopsis Care - Home

I have designed a simple device to water my Venus flytrap and Droceras. I wonder if I could use it to water Phal.

It is a simple tool which measures soil humidity and if it is too low, pumps some water in the base or directly to the plant. I can "calibrate" the minimum level of moisture and amount of water.

It looks like this:



For my Phal I use it as a weekly timer to pump water, but I can add electrodes and measure humidity. Does it make any sense in orchid case?

 

Haha great idea - I did not think about it. There are two producers: Parrot flowerpower and some other, both crazy expensive (but nice)
They have only checking the conditions. I can check and water the plant.

I have a good drainage, but there is quite a lot of water, which will be there till next watering, so I will change the outer pot.

I will attach the moisture measurement and let you know how it works with orchid. Also, my next version will have a real time clock, so watering will be only at dawn.

 

Thanks!!
Here my new test bed for capacitative probe:

It seems to work
It can be done really cheap, in range of 25$ per pot.

 

It saturated and stopped working. I will look for another way. Unless maybe it will go down after some time

 

Ok it seems work
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