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At work I have been watching my plants all day long on a spare monitor. It's high quality entertainment... sometimes a bird or a dude with a leaf blower will show up, and in healthier times it might catch bugs (edit: I just noticed, it caught something in the very last frame). For the last month it has been recovering from mistakes involving the Miracle Gro brand, and perhaps numerous other things I was doing wrong at first. I've saved a few frames every day and put them together with a creepy Xenakis soundtrack. Enjoy.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YvOWR4QDxQ[/youtube]

This is the app I use as webcam software: "IP Webcam". Turns out, old phones are really useful. It's both a camera and a web server, and on reboot it knows how to immediately start up the webcam again.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... m&hl=en_US

Saw a bird in there. They sometimes like to uproot your vfts and let them dry. At least it has happened to mine twice,but i have so many plants that it doesnt matter and they survived anyways.

What the bird did was it took a bath in the outer rectangular container with the water in it. Mosquitos have been trying to spawn in there too. There are definitely some complications to keeping these things outdoors, but at least the new place I'm moving into will be on a second floor balcony with a less dangers.

You must let the water on the bottom dry, mosquitoes avoid laying eggs in water sources that dry way to quickly.

They're still going. Here is the 2.5 month version. We moved apartments and the one on the right didn't much like the move, but I'm sure it will like the increased sunlight. And the one on the left is doing great.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3JoKOWZzE[/youtube]

Kenneth: yep, my original strategy was to keep water in it at all times like so many people say to do, but since have picked up on the probably better strategy of letting it dry out in between. How long in between? Well I have no idea what the sweet spot is and I have no idea how moist the soil beneath the surface is at any given time and I have no idea what the difference between the English words "most" and "damp" is supposed to be. So I just water it whenever. And I am not seeing algae anymore, so that's nice.

The way I do it is the weight of the pots. I wait until they are so light that it feels like their empty containers when I pick them up. Admittedly i do take it to the extreme.

Peat/perlite weight a lot more than nzlfsm when wet and dry much slower. It's going to come down to experience.

Either way the idea is moist but not wet.

So I do have a same-size pot of the mix which has no plants because it had a baby plant that tipped over in the car during the move, and didn't survive. It's completely dry now.

And, wow! My other plants were last watered 2 days ago (they've had plenty of sun to dry out in) and they are WAY heavier than the dry pot. More than double heavy. I was thinking about watering them every 2nd day because it's pretty hot, but this suggests that every 2nd day would be... not necessarily too much water but they're sure as hell not dry.

Yeah you can go way longer without watering than 2 days.