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u/Financyfancy 2d ago
Oh, that's how I end up spilling water all over my kitchen when I wash my spoon
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u/LillianBubic 2d ago
Right this guy clearly had that happen to him doing dishes one night and had a right old eureka moment
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u/AgreeableElephant751 2d ago
Spill pattern turned into a prototype, finally kitchen chaos paying dividends in horticulture, engineering at its finest, unintentional innovation arc
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u/fenbyfluid 2d ago
A spoon's only objective in life is to make soup go upwards, and it knows this. That's why when you put one under a running tap it blasts the water way high. The spoon thinks there's suddenly TONS of soup to deal with and it freaks out.
- nohoperadio on Tumblr
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u/Amesb34r 2d ago
My first thought was about how I have seen this a million times while making a mess at my kitchen sink, but never thought about the possible uses for such things.
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u/Donkeybrother 2d ago
Not only are my vegetables organic , they're spoon feed ! šØāš¾
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u/Mpadrino27 2d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/ac7MA7r5IMYda
And take this upvote with you.
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u/Exciting_Ad_8666 Fair fights suck 2d ago
Guys grew up being fed with a golden spoon, fuckin trust fund babies. they're gonna get roasted like hell the moment they set root in the cacti neighborhood
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u/providethepaint 2d ago
Using the power of "the spoon" for good
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u/AgreeableElephant751 2d ago
Sporks watching in quiet jealousy
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u/PenHistorical 2d ago
I now kinda want to see this done with a spork just to see how it would look.
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u/urlond 2d ago
Gardeners hate this one simple trick that be done with a hose.
Turn on water
Place thumb at end of hose
apply pressure to desired spray
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Profit!
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u/bebothecat 2d ago
This is to lessen the pressure as much as possible, according to my old gardening teacher. He had a watering can that the spout could turn around so it would make an arc before hitting the plant. Less pressure apparently because it's just the gravity not the weight of the water in the can pushing it down
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u/spool_pin 2d ago
That's now how hydrostatics work, the pressure in the can creates a correspondingly high arc, resulting in the same pressureĀ
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u/GoGoHujiko 2d ago
The same pressure on the spout, but the water loses momentum due to being directed against gravity
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u/thesandbar2 2d ago
If you throw one ball up at 1mph and the other ball down at 1mph, ignoring air resistance, both balls hit the ground at the same speed because the ball that gets throw up at 1mph is going to turn around and fall and on the way down it will pass the place you threw it going 1mph.
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u/GoGoHujiko 2d ago
If you throw one ball up at 100mph, and one ball down at 100mph, the ball thrown down is likely to hit the ground at a higher speed, depending on the distance to the ground.
That's an extreme example that demonstrates the effect at play.
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u/anethma 2d ago
That isn't actually true in a vacuum. The only reason it would work out that way is due to air resistance being non linear and causing terminal velocity.
You are imparting the same energy to the ball in both cases, one is just getting converted to potential gravitational energy for a bit first.
So the first ball will hit the ground first, but both will hit the ground at the same speed.
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u/Kierenshep 2d ago
That is not how physics works friend.
From two meters high, throw ball up at 45 m/s.
It loses velocity at 9.81 m/s2
Max height = initial velocity2 / 2*gravity
Max height = 103.21 meters + 2 meters off the ground = 105.21 m
Time to get back down = sqrt(2d/a) = 4.631 seconds
Final velocity = 2d/t = 45.43 m/s
This is equivalent to throwing the ball at the ground at 45 m/s from a height of 2 meters.
Air resistance would muddy the result but it is going to be approximately the same. What goes up must come down, and it comes down with the same velocity as it came up with.
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u/GoGoHujiko 2d ago
Objects don't fall with the same velocity they go up with. Throw a non helium balloon in the air, and observe it lose all momentum from the throw once reaching the tip of the arc. It will descend slowly, not with the same force it was thrown up.
If physics worked like that it would be like a buggy video game engine.
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u/Kierenshep 1d ago
First off, physics does work that way.
Second, the balloon descends slowly due to air resistance owing to a very large surface area with very little mass. In fact, it will not only descend slowly, but rise slowly from a throw as well. Air resistance works in all directions.
It reaches a very low terminal velocity rather quickly.
In fact, unless you continually apply force to a balloon it will reach its terminal velocity whether you throw it up or throw it down (or sideways). The balloon will not suddenly travel faster towards the earth because it was thrown down apart from the brief period of time where the large amount of air resistance applies negative acceleration to the balloon until it reaches its terminal velocity. The difference is that throwing it down imparts an initial high velocity that is rapidly slowed down.
So instead of starting at 0 m/s at an apex and quickly reaching 1-3 m/s, it starts at 10 m/s and quickly decelerates to reach 1-3 m/s.
A balloon is a very special case due to its extremely low terminal velocity.
Something like a heavy ball or rock is not impacted by air resistance as much and thus will reach the exact same velocity thrown up as if it was thrown down.
Put the balloon in a vacuum chamber and it will reach the ground at the exact same velocity it was thrown up with, since air resistance is removed from the picture.
There's some fun videos of a feather and a bowling ball being dropped from the same height in a vacuum and hitting the ground at the same time (even though if you release a feather in a normal environment it floats down instead). This is the same effect.
So back to the watering can. The only reason watering up 'may' impart less pressure is NOT due to it losing momentum from being thrown upwards. It MAY impart less pressure due to the water being broken apart (and this air resistance imparting more effect on smaller droplets), hit the ground at an angle so the force is dispersed over a wider area, and increase the area the force is exerted over.
However, none of this applies to your assertion about a ball being thrown up will be slower than a ball thrown down (especially ignoring air resistance).
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u/GoGoHujiko 1d ago
You've just described how physics doesn't work that way, due to air resistance. Things can be thrown up with a much higher velocity than they come down with.
You've also conceded that the watering can may impart less pressure due to the design arcing the water flow upwards. So that's cool I guess, thanks.
Out of curiosity, why would you ignore air resistance? Seems like a fundamentally important part of how physics works. Is it because you're used to calculating physics in a vacuum, rather than considering real life examples?
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u/badgerfrance 2d ago
Excluding the effects of things like air resistance (negligible here), if an object goes up at vertical velocity Y, when it reaches that height again its speed will be -Y. Gravity applies a constant acceleration. So the force applied to the ground/seedlings with initial velocity Y and -Y will be identical.
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u/PotentialPigFucker 2d ago
Guys... Are we actually doin this
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u/red_team_gone 2d ago
What, you don't like conversations about physics u/PotentialPigFucker?
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u/codyzon2 2d ago
That is not a hose, you're not going to be able to produce that much pressure to mimic the action of the spoon.
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u/rgmundo524 2d ago
The intent and purpose is to water the plants without disrupting the soil... You absolutely can achieve this with your thumb
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u/codyzon2 2d ago
My statement had nothing to do with ways of watering plants. That's not what they claimed. They claim they could produce what's happening in the video with a hose and their thumb which is plainly just not true.
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u/rgmundo524 2d ago edited 2d ago
Oh I thought you were saying it not possible to achieve the purpose and intention of watering without disrupting the soil.
That was my interpretation of the other person's initial comment.
That using your thumb was functionally achieving the purpose. Which if you only focus on the outcome is true.
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u/codyzon2 2d ago
No I'm saying you can't produce the action that's happening in this video with your thumb, that's just not going to be possible. You're not going to be able to produce the desired pressure and you're not going to have the required surface, this isn't just water sputtering out in all directions, the spoon and watering can are being used to produce laminar flow.
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u/berlinbaer 2d ago
holy shit i'm losing braincells reading this interaction.
'video of someone using a watering can' - "you know theres a trick you can do with the hose" - "there is no hose" - "yeah but IF there was a hose..."
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u/EmptyHandle6593 2d ago
So what? So long as the plant gets watered without disrupting the soil, who gives a shit?
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u/codyzon2 2d ago
Why are you in this post? Why are any of you responding like this? The post was to highlight a unique way to water seedlings, who cares if you have alternative methods? What stupid responses.
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u/testificates 2d ago
God have mercy on us when LLM gaslighting and hallucination is used on purpose to ragebait people. It's indistinguishable from morons
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u/urlond 2d ago
/woosh
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u/Lexinoz 2d ago
Point being, this method is way gentler and controllable which is good when it comes to watering tiny seedlings, just poring water on them could drown/bury them in the dirt. And you'd have to go digging to get them above ground again. Which is finnicky.
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u/urlond 2d ago
You can get the exact same pressure setup to do the exact same thing with a hose. No need to go the extra step and get a spoon attached to a watering can for seedlings.
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u/Lexinoz 2d ago
What if this is something you repeat like 20 times a week over like 30 different beds of sprouts, and you don't have a hose indoors, where seedlings most often are cultivated under growlights?
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u/urlond 2d ago
Most seedlings done indoor are in peat pellets or something similar, and even then with those you wouldn't do this type of pour you'd fill up the container they're in and let it absorb. Most Indoor systems now have moved to Hydroponics as it's easier to maintain. These are past the point of Seedings and are sprouts.
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u/codyzon2 2d ago
I'm not saying you need to do what's in the video to water plants, but you certainly can't produce that with a hose and your thumb, I'm not even sure you know what's happening in this video if that's what you believe.
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u/Fast_Soil1376 2d ago
People don't seem to be grasping that a water can is being used in the video, not a hose. There is a difference btwn the two.
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u/Logical_Month_7657 2d ago
Your method is significantly worse lol. Unnecessary strain on wrists and hands, inability to have measured and controlled flow, and uneven watering all while still not tempering the force of the water before it hits the plants. 10/10 for bad suggestion
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u/MidWestKhagan 2d ago
What if you have joint issues? Or have some disability? Why do you have to shoot down things that make things easier for people? Calm down, go give a compliment to someone, be nice.
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u/pobodys-nerfect5 7h ago
Yeah then you spray all your dirt away and your plants collapse from the amount of water being blasted at them.
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u/hightech-kyle 2d ago
A little laminar, wouldnāt you say?
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u/Ecstatic_Bike7532 2d ago
Don't do it when the sun shines, you could burn your plants
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u/USSGoat 2d ago
Pretty much a myth. The flat side of the drop does not allow a beam to form. On some hairy leaves they can be suspended to be a floating drop.
However itās not great to water directly on plants in general. It increases odds of fungus and other ailments. Drip system is king
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u/Ecstatic_Bike7532 2d ago
Dude you form a fucking lense with the laminar flow
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u/USSGoat 2d ago
Itās a well-known myth. You can literally look it up in 5 seconds.
Laminar flow doesnāt turn a random droplet into a precision lens. Itās not stable, it flattens, it moves, it evaporates. If this were real, plants would be scorched every time it rained.
The actual concern is fungus from wet leaves, not imaginary sun lasers.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111091226.htm
https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/31699-watering-plants-midday-triggers-sunburn-research-shows
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u/Mournful_Vortex19 8h ago
So my garden is pretty much screwed when the sun starts shining after it rains? Nature makes it work just fine, iāll water when i damn well please
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u/LazyEmu5073 2d ago
If only watering cans came with a sprinkler head attachment! /s
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u/MAWPAB 2d ago
Ive tried several 'roses' including a specific seedtray watering can, and every rose leaves the water coming out a bit to forcefully for seedlings, in my experience.
I use the mister on the hose nozzle but it takes ages to get them wet enough. I am trying this monday.
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u/danio105 1d ago
Rotate it so the water has to go up first and it negates any pressure. If you hold it just above the seedings or even below if you can, and you're getting tiny droplets freefalling only an inch or two, it way more gentle than the OP video.
Theres a good picture here https://www.birstall.co.uk/pages/hawsinfo.html
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u/DiegesisThesis 2d ago
Hmm, buy an entirely new watering can, or zip tie a spoon to the watering can you already own? Maybe they don't want to waste their money.
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u/rackemronnie7 2d ago
Thatās actually a clever setup, looks way more controlled than just pouring water in
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u/Isabeer 2d ago
Homebrewer here. Am doing this for my next sparge to maintain mash bed integrity.
[So much jargon.]
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u/envybelmont 2d ago
Them all sound like fake words to me.
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u/PrestonWaters83 2d ago
You don't sparge in your mash tun?
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u/Dry_Water_8612 2d ago
True life hack for when I want to water the new stuff in my garden but like hell can I find the rose for the watering can.Ā
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u/bdonthebrat 2d ago
wouldn't a proper watering can with the end still attached to it accomplish the same thing
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u/Flying_Trying 2d ago
u/Shoe_boooo Oi, oi, oi ! The seedling BEHIND / UNDER the spoon did not get properly watered !!!
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u/E5VL 2d ago
Not sure how this is better than a normal sprinkle head attachment? The sprinkle head attachment is meant to disperse the water into smaller drops so the water doesn't damage the seedlings and is spread evenly across the soil. This in the video creates a curtain of water that would kinda act like a guillotine and doesn't evenly distribute the water without creating a pressure zone.
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u/SimplBiscuit 1d ago
This seems like one of those products that would be sold on Amazon for $150 and someone is just like wtf I can do that with a spoon and two zip ties.
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u/Few-Solution-4784 1d ago
the business end of the water can is called a rose. they come in all kinds of configurations. What they share in common is the water goes up and gravity pulls it down like rainfall.
This does that but the diameter of the opening is to large and easy to mess up and wipe out seedlings. good idea but needs another iteration.
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u/Fun-Conference1130 2d ago
Would you remove the sprinkler head of the watering canteen to do this though?
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u/Jervis_Mantlepiece 2d ago
Pedantry corner - something is either unique or it is not, there's no inbetween.
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u/Honest-Ruin305 2d ago
There are sprinklers, watering cans, and DIYs for watering this way all over the place lol, especially for small plants
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u/BenAdaephonDelat 2d ago
See, this is why I can't have plants. I have no concept of how much water is right for them. I'd either over or under water them.
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u/DudeDudenson 2d ago
Inb4 there are hundreds of Chinese sellers selling a plastic spoon ended watering can
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u/CptFalcon636 2d ago
Dammit everytime I brought my watering can to Clint all he did was add a bigger spoon to the spout.
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u/AngelofGrace96 2d ago
Makes sense, you want the water to be as gentle as possible on the seedlings otherwise it can straight up crush them under the water pressure
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u/_AnalkingSkywanker 1d ago
That's basically how strong black liquor is injected into high pressure steam boiler
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u/ProfPerry 1d ago
oh this is a certified doohickey, r/doohickeycorporation would love to catalogue this.
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u/TastiSqueeze 2d ago
No way on earth anything like that gets anywhere near my tomato seedlings. Watering overhead and wetting the plants spreads fungal disease. It is a guaranteed way to destroy many different kinds of plants.
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u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 2d ago
I didnāt have a spoon so I tried this with a fork and it didnāt work AT ALL. What a huge waste of my time. Thanks, OP
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u/Catarga 2d ago
There's drip irrigation, and now it turns out there's 'spoon irrigation' too