u/CrudeAndUnusual

Watering systems not for the faint of heart

I googled i-don't-even-remember-what and ended up on a forum where people were doing some wild stuff to water their houseplants. My mouth hung open a little when they were discussing indoor irrigation systems... Here I was thinking that a 40-plant automatic watering system was less attainable than $50 on Amazon with free shipping. But they were just getting started. They started discussing their indoor green walls - plural walls, one person mentioned having 3 - and MacGuyvering automatic watering for those, but THEN, with multiple big systems plus their regular, single-plant self-watering pots, there were too many reservoirs to keep filled, so they hooked them up to fill automatically, first via their rainwater tanks, then their tap, and installed toilet float things and/or pool float things (the things that sense the water level and trip the water to fill?) to the inside of all the reservoirs. Also, one person was in the process of making an APK that tied into watering somehow.

I didn't know it was possible to do all this inside. Does anyone here have a setup approaching this intensity? Not to sound creepy but I want to meet them and see their houses. How are they not here. Are they here? I hope they're here.

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u/CrudeAndUnusual — 1 day ago
🔥 Hot ▲ 780 r/isthisAI

The video doesn't look uncanny to me, but my jaded little heart refuses to believe that an EAGLE would protect a KITTEN. I'm a boomer when it comes to clocking AI, but there is no way this is real.

This would be like a pride of lions protecting an orphaned zebra foal during a sandstorm, during a drought. I've looked this video up on every platform I can access (I'm locked out of Facebook, praise jeebus), and every comment is thanking God or pondering how predators can find kindness for their prey while humans are so mean yadda yadda. Am I the silly one?

u/CrudeAndUnusual — 1 day ago
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Kokedama ball

(Obviously not my pic) Is there any way to mount a kokedama without tying it to the ball with a million layers of twine? I'd like to give a smallish one as a gift but the chore of doing that in forward and reverse every time it needs watered TO ME seems like it would convey my affection about as well as giving their 4 year old kid a drum set for his birthday.

Is this be an ok gift if I was trying to keep it pretty low-maintence? I can keep it free standing if I need to, or hanging, I just don't want to make taking care of it a big thing. He's got 8 dogs so he keeps everything else pretty simple. Plant recommendations would be awesome if you have them. Hopefully something that could hang out in the ball for a couple years.

u/CrudeAndUnusual — 2 days ago