BlumatDrip Irrigation System - Tropf Medium Box Automatic Plant Watering Devices for Garden, Patio and Hanging Baskets - Garden Watering System Up to 12 Plants - Effortless Hydration - 12 Pack

Amazing product, easy setup and great results. I am using this system as an experiment in both an indoor as well as outdoor garden. Currently I have 3 of the Blumats setup running off of a 5 gallon bucket reservoir that is gravity fed and growing produce under a 600W HID light. The reservoir is running about 4-5 day cycles between fillups into coco coir/perlite medium in 3 gallon buckets. Zero runoff when set correctly and I have grown a complete cycle with organic nutrients running through the system and a little DripClean to keep the lines free.Outdoors I am running 6 of these powered from the hose adapter with zero ferts in the water. These are powering a small 6x6 raised bed with organic soil mix and compost as nutrients. The outdoor ones need a little fiddling here and there depending on temperature and how fast the soil dries but still have preformed extremely well.Not sure if you can use this system as a complete irrigation option, but for vacations and people who have balcony gardens this is a huge step up from the watering can. Amazing product, great quality, and I can safely assume it will work for at least a few years making it well worth the cost.

This is my 3rd order from Sustainable Village, all delivered on time. I absolutely love Blumat classic system and self water system (works as advertised, outside plants survived and thriving in California temperature over 110 Fahrenheit while I was out 4 weeks), easy to install. I ordered rain barrels from different seller, Amazon screw tracking orders and attached my negative review to Sustainable Village. If I can, I would give Blumat and Sustainable Village 10 stars.For reservoir, I bought 5-gallon HDPE bucket from HD, drill a hole and installed Blumat spigot ( For the rest you just need a knife and scissor to cut a hose to desired length and connect parts. Very simple.

Worked perfectly! 8 potted plants left in porch for 10 days in hot weather…full sun…didn’t lose one! So empresses! Wish the container could be more attractive…or shaped like a big rock…or small “wooden” barrel (plastic) for 5 gals water

Set up wasn't too difficult. I found that when I fill my reservoir (even when there's still water inside), I have to make sure that all the drippers are properly set because once in awhile they will turn on full blast. Sort of tedious, but worth it because my plants are getting a steady supply of water with not much effort on my part.I connected one of the original blumat carrots to this system - the tubing is the same size as drip carrot. By original carrot, I mean the kind that feeds water to the plant from the carrot itself (not drip like this kit). So far it's working well. I sort of prefer the original carrot because the hose effect can't happen like with the dripper.

I've done three installations, one in my atrium that's permanent, and two that were rigged up to water plants while I was traveling.One of the temporary installs was in my guest bathroom shower, fed by a Blumat pressure regulator attached to an adaptor (both sold by Amazon) attached to the shower arm. For a water source, I cracked the cold-water valve open just a bit. There's a small window above the shower that supplied enough light to keep indoor plants alive for five weeks. In fact, when I came back they'd never looked better. BTW the instructions that come with the kit warn that it isn't for indoor use, although according to Sustainable Village this has to do with liability concerns rather than with the product not working indoors.The permanent install is in my atrium and, again, the plants have never looked better. You *will* have to bleed the system to get the air out. Just bleed it like you'd bleed a car's hydraulic brakes, starting at the spike further from the water source and working your way toward the source. Installation is straightforward, although fine-tuning the flow regulator on top of each spike may take you several weeks. I thought I had everything dialed in, but when I came back the Ficus in the atrium was suffering--there must have been a hot spell. I guess the lesson here is to err on the side of caution if you're going to be gone--crank up the flow to a little more than what the plant seems to need. (Or maybe the lesson is that Ficus are temperamental.)The third system was supposed to be attached to the kitchen sink faucet, again using an adaptor sold on Amazon, with indoor plants on the counter in the sort of drainage tray used under an air conditioner condenser and dumping any overflow into the sink. But given the need to fine tune the system, which would have taken my kitchen offline for weeks, I used it in my patio, with less success, although maybe pothos aren't outdoor plants :-)BTW when I got home I put all the indoor plants back in their places but left the shower and patio systems hooked up and the valves on. Several days later both of them started spouting water from the end spike. Apparently they'd dried to the point that they were signaling for water.This stuff ain't cheap. I have about $500 into three systems plus regulators. But I think it's worth it. First, you don't need to hire a house- or plant-sitter if you're traveling. Just make sure the system is installed so that water won't ruin your floors if there's a malfunction: in a shower, tub or those condenser trays I mentioned. Second, you don't need to deal with a landscaper to plumb and wire a conventional drip irrigation. You design and install the Blumat system yourself. And third, your plants will look way, way better, even if you think you're conscientious about watering.Finally, don't be afraid to reach out to Sustainable Village for tech support. They're great.

The set works as advertised. I used it outdoors to water eight pots during a two-week summer vacation. The setup was easy and the Blumat kit with bucket kept the plants watered. Things I should have done differently and which may be helpful to other users: 1) I assembled the kit the day before I left and did not have the time to adjust the water flow per instructions; next time I will put the kit together a few days in advance - as recommended in the instructions; 2) the water bucket is black, and the weather was very hot during my vacation (100+ deg F); it would be better to place the bucket in a shaded place if possible, as the heated water may cook the plant roots if the bucket is in the sun; 3) the supplied length of black 8mm tubing was just enough for my eight pots grouped together; a longer piece of tubing may be required if the pots are farther apart. Overall a great system that worked well for me.

No More over watering