Self-Watering Planter, Clear Plastic Automatic-Watering Planter Flower Pot Square-Plant-Pot for All Plants, Succulents, Herb, African Violets, Flowers (Clear L)

I have all 3 sizes of these pots which I use for african violets.I do not use the wicks that come with them but I use #18 mason line. One string from 3/4th of the way up the pot and into the bottom of the resovior. I started using them 6 or 7 months ago and are working well for me. I love the clear resovior which allows me to monitor the water level with a quick glance. The max fill marking is also great for refills.

Great pots! Got African violets in them.

My Calatheas are loving these. They used to dry out within a couple of days and I often travel up to four days per week for work so I was coming home to stressed plants. These pots keep them evenly and consistently moist. Plus they look really pretty.I put window screen in the bottom and ran the cords through a small hole I punched in it before putting in soil because I wanted to make sure that the water in the reservoir stayed clean. I think you could use a coffee filter, a paper towel, or scrap cloth of some kind if you didn’t have screen. I really think this was a good decision because the holes in the bottom are big enough for finer substrate material to fall though. I also added the two cords per pot that were included with the package but having both in the water at once keeps the soil a little too wet for the Calatheas so I have tucked one up into the pour screen of the lid by threading it through the slats. I might use them in summer when it is drier and don’t want to disturb the soil so I’m leaving them embedded in the soil but keeping them out of the water. I am using both cords with distilled water for my Venus fly trap though. I imagine if you don’t need quite as much moisture you could replace the included cord with something smaller diameter and/or less absorbative. I’ve also been putting cotton balls in the pour screen of the lids to keep gnats and mosquitoes out of the reservoirs and I just pop them out and then back in when I need to fill. I am using RO water because the Calatheas hate the chlorine of my tap water, which I think helps with algae too, but have used hydrogen peroxide to clean the cords when I noticed any green on them and have added it to the reservoir in a 1:4 ratio too. I completely clean the the reservoirs about once per month with a light bleach solution and refill with fresh RO water. I also put a layer of sand over the top of my soil to prevent fungus gnats because I hate them and they love the moist soil in these pots.I love these so much I would totally buy larger sizes if they were available because transplanting something from a four inch pot into one of these is challenging especially if the whole pot is full of roots. I’d love to be able to go up a size or two when these plants get bigger.

Great self watering option for African Violets when they come in regular pots. Very sturdy for a plastic pot. Good quantity and value for the price.

I bought these little planters to grow Tickle me/ zombie plants for friends! Work magically!

There were no directions as how to set up the wick that came with the planters.

Easy to use and look stylish in my plant cabinet

This works nicely to create a bog for my sundews. You can easily take them apart to clean out the algae that will develop. I'd say that the clear outer pot either requires you not to care about how it looks or to clean it frequently because the water will be discolored. I don't know if a opaque outer pot would be better because it would look nicer or worse because you couldn't easily determine if water was needed.