Automatic wick waterer for plants

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1990-06-06

1991-09-10

Scherbel, David A.

Plant husbandry

Receptacle for growing medium

Irrigator

47 81, A01G 2700

Patent

active

050462822

ABSTRACT:
An automatic soil waterer, especially for potted plants, having an airtight water supply chamber with a discharge into the soil controlled by a hydrophilic probe element followed by a hydrophobic element, preferably with an entrapment chamber therebetween, passing soil air into the water supply chamber, thereby discharging a proportional amount of water into the soil, there being water discharge control by means of a well open to the water supply chamber discharge and with a capillary wick therein exposed to the rise of water in the well and extending into the soil to wet the same.

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