Plant pot reservoir saucer for hydroponics (PRINT BOTH IN VASE MODE)

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Reservoir saucer for plant pots. reduces the need for constant watering. PRINT IN VASE MODE, SPIRALIZED OUTER CONTOUR. Used for hydroponics with nutrient solution in the saucer. Handy filling hole. Plant pot size can be increased as it is a little loose fit at the moment. Plant pot requires holes being drilled. I used a soldering iron to make holes around the bottom of the walls. In my tests so far, the reservoir will hold around 400mL of nutrient solution with the pot in place and filled with LECA/Clay balls. The plant has taken up much less than half of this volume in a week (although it is a young plant). I hope that this will work for herbs or small/medium chilli plants and that the reservoir will only need filling once a week in the height of growth.