Watering spike for 2L bottle with threads by eagleapex
Here’s a dead simple but ingenious print: a watering spike to put on those ubiquitous two-liter bottles. Maybe it’ll help keep your plants from getting too dry during these super-hot summer days.
eagleapex‘s version is derivative (or perhaps a parallel development of) another watering spike by arkatipe. It’s nice to see great minds racing to the same conclusion — that we need more printable gardening implements!
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I'm leaving for my honeymoon in a couple of weeks, so I needed a way to keep my plants alive between the times when the neighbor will stop in to water everything. So I made this watering spike.
My bit of testing showed that it took about 12 hours on average for the water in the 2L bottle to drain. It lasts a little longer if the ground is wet to begin with.
EDIT 7/26/11: Spike with Threads added. This one also includes 3 "fill layers" in the middle of the spike, which makes a sort of filter at 90% fill. It slows down the drainage a little bit, and keeps particles from being sucked up into the bottle.
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I started working on this before arkatipe uploaded his spike with threads. This is the difference(); of his spike and my 2L bottle threads: thingiverse.com/thing:10489
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