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Materials: One water or soda bottle One bottle cap or aluminum foil and rubberband to cover bottle opening Wicking material (fabric interfacing or cotton string) Planting medium (a soilless seed starter mixture) Water Remove label from the bottle. Cut bottle 1 cm below shoulder. Poke or drill a 1 cm hole in bottle cap. Alternatively, rubberband several layers of aluminum ...

Drill two rows of holes, each row being about 25° off the top centerline of the pipe. Space the holes about 4 per square side. use a No 60 drill bit so that the nozzles are 0.040″ holes (1 mm for you metric folks.). The beauty of this system is that it automatically meters about 4 cups of water per ...