DIY Seedling CupPot

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  1. #1 yazdan, Sep 29, 2015
    Last edited by a moderator: Sep 29, 2015
    Hello friends,


    In this post I'm gonna show you how to make a good and functional(!) pot for your seedlings.

    Advantages:

    • Ability to watch what's going on in your pot in the very beginning(and also very critical) period of your plant's life! (Pro or noob, soon or late you're going to understand how monitoring and taking care of your seedling's root is important and crucial for your entire plant's lifetime)
    • Piece-of-cake transplanting with the minimum amount of shock for both you(!) and your plants.
    • Controlling the drained water.
    • Controlling the plant's distance from the light source(aka. height of your pot). PC chassis growbox users will get the most benefit from this!
    Disadvantages:
    Mention some of them as reply and I'll edit my post and add them right here.


    Requirements:

    • Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
    • Disposable *transparent* plastic cups x2
    • Scotch tape
    • Dark-colored Flyers (random street ads or any other +1mm piece of paper which doesn't pass any lights)
    • Phillips/Pozidrive screwdriver (The one which fits into your laptop's screws)
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    1) Take one of the plastic cups in your hand(as shown below) and put the screwdriver on the bottom of the cup and start turning the screwdriver to left and/or right.
    NOTE: Don't be lazy! You must balance the rotating and pushing power in order to make some neat holes. Pushing a lot will lead you to damage the pot and/or your finger(s). (NO! you should not use iron or heated-on-fire screwdriver neither!)


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    2) Make a tube(simply a spiral rotation) from that flyer and put one cup in one end and the other cup on the another side of your flyer and continue squeezing the flyer until your cups are not freely moving anymore and/or it's not so tight for your cups to get defected or damaged.


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    3) Use the scotch tape for hardening your tube.

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    4) Remove the cups from both sides, put the drilled one on top of the normal one and then attach them to the head of your tube.


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    5) Share some photos from your awesome pots in this topic!

     

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