Need Advice ASAP (Please)

Sometime within the next couple of days I'm going to have to go into the hospital for surgery. I don't know if I'm going to be in the hospital for a couple days or more than a week and I won't know until I actually am in the hospital. (I may need an angioplasty - I may need an arterial bypass. The former is wham, bam, thank you ma'am - the latter is like getting run over with a truck.)

Soooo - what the hell can I do with my plants? Put them in a tub of water so they can bottom feed & hope for the best?

Deep water helps. The problem might be ph, that was mine when i had surgery and my wife helped. Boy i was sweating it out.

Having said all that dont worry, the hospitol visit is more important


good luck with both

Fuck Pharmacan, more than the Plants, i wish you the best bud.!!!

Wow, sorry to hear that PC....Don't supposed you can grab a timer or something to water your plants with....probably don't have very much time....We'll be thinking about you.

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Originally Posted by PharmaCan

Soooo - what the hell can I do with my plants? Put them in a tub of water so they can bottom feed & hope for the best?

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If your plants are in pots, you can rig up a temporary wick watering system.

De-pot your plant, drill some 5/8" holes (3-4) in the bottom, drop some 5/8" nylon ropes through those and fray about 3-4" of the ends. Drop the plant back in the pot. Rig up a reservoir (storage tub's good) and put some planks across it for the plants. Drop the ropes into the reservoir (fray that end too). The pot bottom should be no more than about 6-8" above the waterline.

Voila, instant absentee watering system. ;)

Surgery sucks. Hang in there, man.

Good luck and get well soon

One thing you DON'T want to do is just drop your plants in a tray of water. Your soil/media will suck up much more water than the plants can use- and you will come out of hospital to sickly plants with rotted roots.

Good tutorial on all hydro systems, including wick systems.

al b fuct has hit the nail on the head. use the silky nylon type of rope. If you can get the rope to even run up the sides of the pot a bit that will help. NO STANDING WATER!!!! It will drown your roots.

Damn PC i wish you all the the best mate and come back to us safe and well.be safe dave