Rain collector for watering indoor plants

Marc Zech 6 months ago

congrats everyone!! looks like quirky is about to be a BIG player! ;)

Jennifer Willis 6 months ago

Wooooo! Congrats!

Pieter Laga 6 months ago

well done Quirks!!
a big thanks to everyone who believed in this idea.

Sandra Lehr 6 months ago

Anyone know why a base wasn't created for this product? Do you think we can add one? It just needs to be a plastic (recylcled) netting that can keep 4 - 6 bottles standing.

Sandra Lehr 6 months ago

Amazing! Looks like we've met threshold!!!! We are really keeping Quirky busy these days!

Jeremy Baylis 6 months ago

You wouldn't be able to get enough weight in the bottom to stop if from being blown over in a wind. Cute but gimmicky, I'll stick with a rain barrel.

Matthew Karpinski 6 months ago

very very very cool

Judi Sigler 6 months ago

Petal Drops would look so much prettier than a bucket.

Ryan Huo 6 months ago

or you can just use a bucket?

Melissa Havens 7 months ago

I'm excited to see this one go to production! I have ordered 3.... I keep killing plants with city "tap" water. I'd like to have a green thumb, not a black one. Hurry hurry ORDER!!!

Shellie Storm 7 months ago

I live in Australia so water conservation and collection is a mega issue. Would you believe my hubby came up with the idea of a funnel over a year ago but for a much larger application. I got a real surprise to see the advertisement for this product in the Aussies House & Garden magazine. The real potential could stem from using the funnel idea andapplying it to water tanks. There is a big push for households to have their own water tank, with water usually collected off a roof down a pipe into the tank. The problem is that many housholds don't have an ideal position to put the tank in order to harvest the water from the roof. My husband came up with a funnel concept (or the top of the tank could be moulded to funnel shape, with a shut off valve when full). This means that the tank could be positioned virtually anywhere where there is space and you can then use a pump system to use the water for its allocated purpose (garden watering namely, unless tank is large enough to support other household activities such as washing clothes). We have even considered the tank application for farmers to use it as a water source for their livestock or for crops. The tank could be positioned close to a drinking trough. You could even have a filter/mesh system at the top to cover the whole opening so that birds couldn't take a bath!

Heidi Wolfley 7 months ago

Cheap product and cute. Hard for me to visualize using the product unless I was camping.

Jamie Thomas 7 months ago

Classic quirky idea! i.e Looks cool and is functional. So much so I've just pre-ordered 4 of them. Since I'm down under in Melbourne, Australia these will be extremely useful given the drought. Just needs to rain now? Further features? When pouring water onto vegie patch or when distributing the collected water a directional spout would be useful? Maybe the petals could close up somehow to form this spout or simply produce a similar or mark 2 'petalpourer' product with screw application? Agree that stability would be an issue too.

O2B1 8 months ago

Should come with another screw on top.On that is a spike with holes..So you can stick it in your indoor plant base..The water release should be timed(hole size/diameter) using a big bottle or a small one.Example weekend/day/longer for a small bottle...anyways self watering.

Caleb Worm 8 months ago

Different sizes? How about a size that fits a gallon jug? I also like the idea regarding multiple pieces in one pack for sale instead of selling one at a time.

just Sturgis 8 months ago

While I don't view this as a "big impact" eco item, it certainly is a fun idea and it will likely sell which is a big part of the equation here at Quirky. Many people have mentioned weighting or stabilizing the bottle somehow. While it wouldn't resolve the issue for all size bottles, a base that matches the petals could resolve the stability issue for the most common sized bottles. Basically another set of "petals" for the base to provide a stand. And if the center of that base set had the rubber "petals" found in many car cupholders, it could accommodate variant sizes of single serving water bottles with the added benefit of adding a little more eye candy to the whole setup. If the popularity of the product increased, I could see offering variations for larger (1 gallon plus) sized bottles.

Rand Howard 8 months ago

Cute product, just a couple of comments:

About the legalities of collecting rain water, the state of Georgia where I live owns all the water that exits, in the clouds and on the ground, having said that we do collect rain water. We are required to have a permit but that is rarely enforced. Water rights in other states are taken more seriously, Colorado comes to mind. What is taken seriously here in Georgia is that anything used to collect rain water needs to have a cover on it to keep mosquito's out for health reasons. Bottom line is that if this product is to be marketed as a rain water collection device it will need a filter on it to be on store shelves. The other comment is that I would like to see greater collection surface area, overlap petals perhaps or large flower design, perhaps. I can see scattering a number of these around the garden and using up the bottles that otherwise to go the recyle center. Because of the drought, hand watering went from a requirement to a habit so having a liter or so of water near by the plants would save a lot of packing from the rain barrel.

Sean Hreha 9 months ago

I would hate to "rain on your parade," but have the legalities of state water rights been of any concern as to where this product might be sold or used? In some states it is illegal to collect rainwater by any means.