Landrip DIY Drip Kit for Indoor Plants, Automatic Watering System with 30 Days Programmable Timer, Ideal for Watering Plants During Holidays

I bought this anticipating lots of travels in 2020, and here we are stuck at home due to coronavirus. Still, it's a good investment, my plants get watered without fail and they do grow a lot better now that they're watered regularly.I've had it for almost 3 months now, and it's still running on the first set of batteries (2 times per day, 2 minutes each time).Installation was pretty straightforward, the sparse instructions were enough.

Update: first use this year two pumps just stopped pulling water, even removing the filter (the water is straight from the tap) didn't help. Seems to be a start-up problem only, if you force a little water to flow up towards the pump, they both started again. Took a few trials to get them back, but worked. Not sure if the little black rubber covers should be put back on the in/out-lets when storing, I'll try that.-- Original review: --The pump works fine in the ideal set-up, it's simple enough to program and has redundancy in power through both USB and batteries.Regarding the picture near the top of the page showing it watering plants in a multi-level shelving system (similar comments applies to the one in the main description section), I would *love* to know how they get that to work. When the pump stops, water will run towards the lowest point it can get to ("Natures law, Daniel-san, not mine") and if that is a solitary plant outlet, said plant will get all the run-back from the other drippers. I suspect it might also be able to siphon the water from the reservoir through the pump since it seems to be below the reservoir water level, but I haven't personally experienced that.So when you set up plants for watering, make sure that all plants are level and the reservoir is below them. Run a few test-runs pumping into cups to see how much each dripper supplies (you should probably target a bit more than you would expect to account for resistance added by soil). There are pumps that have individual hoses for each dripper, which are simpler in that respect -- do yourself a favour and set it up a few weeks before you need it for calibration.Once properly calibrated, it works just fine.

I bought this Landrip pump in Feb 2020 and is still working. I use it water my orchids for 5 seconds over 24 hours. Today I moved the pump to a different position that is when I realised how long it has lasted. It really deserves a ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I bought this system for my greenhouse, firstly claims it is an easy 15 minute set-up is wide of the mark, yes to actually run the tubing etc is simple, the actual set-up of the timer is quite hit & miss I've had the unit a month now & I'm still adjusting the settings, one tip for this is to initially run the drippers into a bowl to gauge the rate you want.Admittedly the unit is for indoors & I am using mine in a greenhouse but it is difficult to view the digital display in any bright light.It does run on batteries (not provided), I tried this using good Duracels but they lasted 3 days at best, so now using a dedicated USB supply, as I wanted this for a greenhouse with no power I'm quite disappointed that I've had to resort to this, hence the 3 stars. To be fair to the unit, if it was to be used solely indoors with a convenient USB supply it would probably tick most boxes, whilst away on holiday it was quite good although still needing adjusting when I got home.One final tip, when joining the tubing & drippers it's best to use hot water on the tubing & vegetable oil on the dripper connection.Update: for the last week ive been using Amazon basic AA rechargeable batteries in place of the Duracell, still running fine.

Works great but batteries do not last long. I recommend you power it from a 5 volt mobile phone charger that can supply at least 1 amp. As it says it is drip watering so ideal for small pot plants or to keep your larger tubs watered during the day in very hot weather. Larger plants will still need to be manually watered. Gets it's water feed from a water butt or large bucket. It is not fed from the water supply to the house.If you want to use it in a greenhouse some sort of external solar charged battery pack may be better such as a power bank than using regular batteries.

I purchased two of these pumps in the past six months and both of them failed very quickly.I use these pumps to water my apartment plants while I am away. I travel fairly frequently, about every 2-3 weeks, for 4-9 days at a time. So I need to rely on these gadgets to keep my plants alive. This one was fairly easy to set up, although the instructions are rather poorly written. The options it offers, in terms of different settings (duration of watering, frequency, delays), are sufficient. I like the display, it shows all the settings.Where this product fails, and miserably so, is reliability.The first one lasted about a month. Then, while I was away on a two week trip, the pump died. Obviously, my plants suffered; by the time I was back one had perished. I examined the pump and it just refused to turn on, the display was frozen. I tried contacting the original seller but the random Chinese vendors that sell them seem to vanish like the pumps.Then I bought my second pump (after trying another model, unsuccessfully). This one worked initially, upon setup. I was happy and left on another one of my trips. Upon return, I observed the pump did not water at all. Even though it was set up properly, in auto mode, it would only water once, after the setup has changed, then never again. I tried resetting the pump to no avail. The weird thing is the first time I set it up, it pumped a disproportionately large volume of water. So another plant and another pump down the drain.I am not sure if it’s a design flaw or the lack of quality control, but after my two experiences and two dead plants, I will never rely on this product again.