Month: December 2023

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Maximize Your AutoPot System’s Capacity with PotDivider

The AutoPot Watering System has established itself as a versatile and efficient irrigation solution for gardeners of all levels. But could it be even more adaptable and accommodating? Enter the AutoPot PotDivider, an innovative insert that multiplies your planting capacity without increasing system size or demanding significant investment.

The PotDivider provides a variety of benefits and features so you can make the most of your existing system. 

Above: PotDivider in the 8.5 L / 2.2 gal pots of an AQUAvalve5-equipped easy2grow module

Divisible Benefits

  • Quadruple Your Plant Count: Each pot, equipped with PotDivider, can now house four plants in distinct compartments. This is ideal for smaller varieties like herbs or for cultivating seedlings before they graduate to individual pots.
  • Tailored Compatibility: PotDivider seamlessly fits both 2.2-gallon and 3.9-gallon AutoPot systems, and is compatible with 1Pot and easy2grow modules, offering extensive application possibilities.
  • Pre-Veg Perfection: PotDivider excels at nurturing young plants until they’re ready for their own pots. This ensures AutoPot caters comprehensively to the pre-vegetative stage, whether within modules or garden trays (like the easy2GO Kit).
  • Maximizing Output: Utilize PotDivider to leverage your system’s modules to their fullest potential, maximizing plant count per unit.

Above: PotDivider lifts in and out, slots together, and is disassembled with ease

Convenient Features

  • Easy Assembly and Disassembly: PotDivider snaps together and disassembles effortlessly, making setup and cleaning a breeze.
  • Clean Transplanting: The insert lifts out cleanly, gently transferring your young plants to their next stage of growth.
  • Pebble-Free Base: The double floor eliminates the need for a pebble layer in the pot’s base, simplifying setup and maintenance.

Above: The double floor in the PotDivider removes the need for a layer of pebbles or gravel in the base of the pot

The PotDivider is not just an accessory – it further enhances the adaptability and efficiency within your existing AutoPot system, empowering you to cultivate and experiment more. Get your AutoPot PotDivider here or find it at your local AutoPot retailer.

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Growing On Vacation – With Easy2GO

Whether you’re going across the country or staying local this holiday season, you want to come back to thriving plants. AutoPot has exactly what you need to be worry-free during your time away – all power-free and without the need for running water, meaning you can leave them unattended for weeks.

Above: easy2GO allows you to use your own potted plants with AutoPot

While any of the AutoPot Watering Systems can be left alone for extended periods, how about something that turns what you already have into a watering system? Something really simple? Maybe you’ve got a great little selection of plants potted up and looking fine. If you want automatic watering and feeding without having to purchase new systems. easy2GO solves this in minutes.

The easy2GO Kit turns any flat-based garden tray into an AutoPot Watering System. Assemble the kit, connect to any water butt or reservoir, pop your plants in the tray, and you’re free to go. This has been one of our best-selling, core products for years – all because of its beautiful simplicity.

Above: The easy2GO Kit includes AQUAvalve5, a weighted AQUAvalve cover, 9mm pipe, a 16-9mm inline filer for water butts and a 9mm grommet and Golf Filter if using with drilled reservoirs

At the heart of easy2GO is the AQUAvalve; a power-free, self-regulating float valve. The valve meters out a supply of water and/or nutrient solution into the tray. Only once the plants have exhausted that supply will the valve reopen to admit a fresh fill. There is no need for pumps or timers because the AQUAvalve is controlled by plant demand t. Free from any requirements of electricity or running water, easy2GO can be used practically anywhere; in your home, greenhouse, porch or balcony.

Above: easy2GO allows you to leave plants unattended for weeks – making it the ideal solution
to holiday watering and low-maintenance growing

Such simplicity means fewer limitations and, with that, greater versatility. Thus the possibilities with easy2GO are practically endless. Set one up, put your feet up on some faraway beach (be it physical or mental), and dream of your next move. In the spirit of easy2GO, we’ll leave it at that.

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Better Growing Indoors

What if we said that indoor growing typically involves more focus and refinement than cultivation outdoors? While we’re fans of horticulture in all arenas we tend to agree with this statement. And we’d suggest that the reasons for the ‘heightened’ nature of growing indoors are twofold.

Above: Born free, AQUAbox Spyder feeding and irrigating an outdoor raised bed

The first reason is mental. Outdoors your plants are exposed and at the mercy of the elements. Because of this, an outdoor growing mindset can emerge. You tend and shepherd your plants, encourage and support them wherever possible, but accept that they are ultimately free. By comparison indoor growing can be more intense and immediate. Simply by dint of the fact that your plants are right there in front of you can easily become obsessed with them. And it’s not all in your mind.

Above: Anything is possible indoors, but striking a balance is key

Indoor growing requires forms of plant ‘life support’ that are not necessary in the great outdoords This brings us to the second reason for greater attention to detail when growing indoors. You may have to introduce light, heat, ventilation, humidity, water, pest control, and feed, and do all this whilst maintaining a stable, growth-stimulating balance. How might we help you with that you ask yourselves? Good question.

Above: AutoPot Tray2Grow systems with reservoirs elevated to induced gravity pressure – negating the need for pumps

Firstly, by keeping it simple. With a gravity-fed system such as AutoPot there’s no need for pumps. This actively helps to reduce excess heat and noise in your growing space which, in turn, allows you to reduce your reliance on climatic and acoustic countermeasures.

There’s simply less kit with AutoPot modules too. This space efficiency gives you the option of getting more plants into your growing space or giving yourself more room to work around the plants. The modules are also truly modular in that they can be added to or removed from the system without any disruption to the rest of the system itself. If you ever did have a problem plant or wanted to expand quickly there’d be nothing to stop you from sorting that out.

Above: With less kit required AutoPot systems such as easy2grow are an incredibly space-efficient way to grow indoors

Because no running water is required you can set up just about anywhere, making your system incredibly flexible and allowing you to take full advantage of whatever space you have. Smaller systems come with compact 12.4 gallon plastic reservoirs while larger ones are available with collapsible FlexiTank reservoirs that can be set up easily and tucked away discreetly.

The way the systems irrigate can also be a great help when growing indoors. In AutoPot modules water and nutrient solution are introduced via the pipework and fittings to the module tray and up into the pot. This means the top layer of your growing media is often dry. Without a wet top layer of grow media in the pot, certain types of fungus and pests are denied a foothold, reducing the need for intervention on this front too. For first-time AutoPot growers, the dry top layer can be a cause of concern but it is nothing to worry about, all the action is taking place deep in the pot.

Above: Whilst simple and compact the systems remain highly effective – as demonstrated here by Plantasia

Further simplifying things is the elimination of recirculation with AutoPot. Each module sits at the end of its own individual ‘branch line’. Water and nutrients travel to the module on a one-way ticket. There is no onward journey for your solution, it gets admitted to the module tray as and when required, consumed, and replenished with a fresh supply every time. The three big benefits to this are: 1) there’s no requirement for waste plumbing (as there is no waste), 2) there’s zero chance of one plant passing root disease to another via nutrient solution, and 3) there’s less chance of the nutrient concentration becoming depleted without you noticing.

Above: Truly modular by design, all plants are independently fed and you can add or remove pots and trays at will with zero impact on the rest of the system

Finally, how about some peace of mind? Without electricity, running water, pumps, or computers you just don’t need to be there all the time. You can go outdoors even if your plants can’t, send them a postcard maybe. Go! Enjoy a bit of headspace, it’ll help you focus on the things that really matter.

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Give Your Plants a Life with an AirBase!

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Elevate your plants effortlessly with an AirBase! This convenient plate seamlessly integrates into the base of your pot during setup, eliminating the need for a drainage layer of clay pebbles, perlite or hydroton. While simple, cheap, and effective, the preparation, pH balancing (clay pebbles), and use of a drainage layer can be a chore. With an AirBase, it’s as easy as dropping it in, and you’re good to go. This indispensable addition includes a pop-out center section, providing a simple and optional integration with AirDome.

AirBase Square will fit our 2.2 gal 3.9 gal pots while the AirBase Round is designed for 6.6 gal pots and 3 gal or 5 gal fabric GeoPots. A beautifully intuitive and effective innovation, AirBase is fabricated from tough ABS plastic making it highly durable and thus extensively reusable.

Our growing range of affordable ‘pot mods’ allow you incredible scope to diversify within your existing AutoPot set up. AirBase joins the ranks of Pot Divider, AirDome, Strawberry Topper, and our bespoke Propagation Lids.

Now you can multiply your plant count within each pot using Pot Divider, boost growth and yields through root zone oxygenation with AirDome, let your fruits hang low for ease of plant care and picking with Strawberry Topper, and generate the humidity that young plants crave with our snug-fitting, fully adjustable Propagation Lids. What a world we live in! Follow our Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube feeds for further announcements on the launch of AirBase and other forthcoming products!