Morning glory in a bucket on a balcony. It’s watered automatically by a solar powered gizmo I made too.
1.) Your automatic watering setup is DOPE.
2.) Hope the morning glory doesn’t escape. I have a problem with it in my garden and I didn’t ever plant it to begin with…
It shouldn’t escape for it has no where to go! It’s on a third story above an asphalt parking lot. I harvested the seeds and took all the plants down just a couple weeks ago.
Hope you have a good time with the seeds 😉. Glad to know they’re not escaping outside of your balcony. Pretty good seed haul you got there.
OP here responding to popular demand.
The solar waterer uses a 5v solar panel, a dfrobot charge controller and a Wemos D1 Mini clone board driving a relay. My proudest achievement is the uptime shown in the last pic. 55 days since last reboot and that was an intentional update of the tasmota firmware. All on solar and a 10500mah battery, no external power.
That’s really cool! I feel like you and @RoboGroMo will have a lot of garden automation stuff to talk about.
That uptime is impressive - especially considering that it’s outside! Is it pumping the water or controlling a valve from the tap?
The three buckets each have different roles (starting from the right): electronics enclosure, water reservoir with a 5v pump, soil. So, no tap or electricity on the balcony. I have to schlep water about once a week, not too bad.
And it leaves a possibility open for rainwater collection, etc. Very cool!
Huge!
That is amazing to see! The morning glories I had in my old apartment I used ollas for watering, I never thought to automate this way.
This rules!! Tell us more about your automatic watering setup! :o
