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Adjustable drip spike for watering plants

Got these adjustable drip spikes (aka; aqua/water spike) from Bunnings for $1.20 each. There are others available on ebay but these are Holman. Nifty little knick knacks that have some very mixed reviews online. Still running tests to get them to work perfectly. Will provide more information when I have mastered  it.

This is how they work...

Instructions (or destructions according to Mr Wilson)

This is how big they are...

Settings for drip rate

Everywhere that I looked on the web didn't show these angles. So I wanted to be helpful to everyone else looking for the same thing I was. Gives you an indication of the type of bottle it will fit. These fit standard Australian soft drink and water bottles.

"Upside down, upside down"


Punch a hole in the base of the bottle. This was done with a skewer but I'm currently trialling using a smaller hole from a sewing pin.

Pick somewhere next to the plant (closer is probably better but don't damage the plant)
And job DONE! Let your dripper drip away!
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  1. Anonymous13/12/15 4:42 pm

    I brought 10 of the spikes for the office and home pot plants ... I am not particularly impressed. I used 600ml soft drink bottles to test. Set the spikes to 8 and left them for over a week ... nothing. The water levels barely dropped once set. Change the settings to 1 ... again no drop in water levels in over a week. Saw this blog and put a pin prick hole in the bottle and set the spike on 9 (slowest) - water levels dropped immediately and then emptied the bottle within 30 minutes. Retested with spike set on 1 (thinking it might be the wrong way round) ... bottle emptied just a quickly. Maybe I got 10 duds ... but what are the chances of that?

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