14 Pcs Plant Clear Watering Bulbs,Plastic Automatic Self-Watering Globes,Garden Water Device Watering Bulbs for Plant Flower Indoor Outdoor

Can be annoying to fill, but thats part of the deal with these in particular, hold a lot of water and has been durable so far. Has made it really nice to know how much my plants needed water and to keep an eye on it.

I got these to water my plants when I went away for a few days and it was perfect. They were tricky to fill. I found it best to go slowly with a small stream of water until full and removing them. The stem usually has some dirt in it. The dirt (usually) comes out with a few light knocks or adding more water to it. The small one are small, but good for smaller pots. The larger ones helped keep my tomato plants happy while I was away.

Love these for my many plants. Wonderful all the time. Especially great when I go out of town. I’ve purchased more.

i purchased these for my beloved houseplants for a 21 day trip away and I knew they would need watering. In theory these sound great, but not practical. The hole is so large that all of the water will seep out in one day. I ended up trying to plug the hole so only a trickle of water came out. That did not work and I'm not sure that I will use them again.

I saw the reviews that people struggled to have success with these but I tried anyway. I tried a lot. I tried a lot of angles and levels and techniques, and I couldn’t really get any of them to work more than once, if that. The small ones seem to leak out water immediately, and the larger ones sometimes do, and sometimes go slowly enough that you wonder if it’s working correctly or just blocked by soil again. The big ones are large enough that they might knock over your small to medium plant if you try to angle them to get a faster drip. The small ones are small enough that they barely hold much water at all.I’m sure it’s possible that someone could kind of luck into some kind of system that works for them using these. But it wasn’t me. I certainly wouldn’t trust these over a vacation without testing them, and also learning yourself how they work for a few weeks first. One dirt clod when you’re filling it the morning you leave and you don’t notice because you don’t know what it feels like, you’d be coming home to a dead plant. Try to use one that perhaps for some manufacturing defect just won’t hold water and you didn’t test it first? You’d be coming home to a dead plant.They are so cute, and smaller than the terracotta bottle spikes i have used successfully before. It’s a shame they just… don’t work very well.

Holds enough water for small to mid size house plants. Good value. Not incredibly durable but I have not had any break. Functions just as described

Yes, those thingies work for people like me who keep forgetting to water their flowers when they get busy with other things. Now if I could only remember refilling them when they are empty!

Bought these to set in some of our houseplants before we went away on a two-week trip. They are sturdy, but far from "decorative". They are a good price for the number that you get. However, as some people have said, sometimes they clog and don't work potentially jeopardizing the health of your plants.So here's what we did to play it safe:- Only used them in potted plants that we knew would last for more than two weeks without watering- Set them up two days before our trip to see which ones didn't dispense water into the soil by the following day- Those that were still completely full the next day, we pulled them out, washed them, and poked them in the stem to clear out the clog- Re-set them in the soil the night before we leftWhen we came back, about 80% of them were completely drained, so I'd call that a success. A couple of them were still full, so they didn't drain at all. Only negative besides the ones that clogged and didn't properly water the plants is that their rate of draining is totally "random" and unpredictable. If your soil is very compact, they probably will clog and not drain or drain very slowly for instance. If your soil is very loose or full of roots or twigs then they will probably drain very fast, within a day or two, rendering them useless also for long trips.My recommendations would be to try something else and more reliable, like the Blumat Classic Plant Watering Stakes which we also bought and which work very well: (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001IOZ98?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1)So would I recommend them: NO. They are just too unpredictable to use for long absences. We'll continue to use them as a supplement to the Blumat stakes for "less important" plants that we're not too worried about, and we'll probably use two of these globes for those pots just in case one clogs.