Waterboxx® Plant Cocoon
10 Times Reusable Groasis Waterboxx® plant cocoon made of Polypropylene.
Groasis Ecological Water Saving Technology applications are endless; from large government reforestation projects, private programs, small rural farms, even consumer vegetable gardens.
The Groasis Waterboxx® plant cocoon is the ideal alternative for drip irrigation. The Waterboxx plant cocoon is made from polypropylene (plastic) and therefore it can be used 10 times. The tree needs the box for 9 till 12 months to grow. When the tree doesn’t need the Waterboxx® plant cocoon anymore, you can carefully remove the box from the tree and re-use the box. You plant trees with 90% less water than drip irrigation.
- It is approximately 90% cheaper and uses over 90% less water than drip irrigation;
- It is an organic way of growing;
- The survival rate is average over 90%.
- It is an ideal solution for urban city farming to grow vegetables with over 75% less water use;
- Proven technology:
- The Groasis Waterboxx® plant cocoon creates an incredible strong and deep penetrating root system.
The Groasis waterboxx is an instrument that supports plants and trees to survive in difficult circumstances without using groundwater or electricity. It collects water by catching rainwater, and also by producing and catching water from condensation. It subsequently distributes the collected water over an extended period, to the tree growing in the center of the waterboxx. Furthermore, it stimulates the capillary formation of the soil; prevents the evaporation of groundwater; steadies the temperature around the roots; fights competitive weeds near the planted tree; and can even prevent damage by rodents. In this way, the Groasis waterboxx stimulates optimal growth of the young tree.
Groasis waterboxx is the perfect food security tool.
The Groasis waterbox – using natural principles
•Capillary Water: Do a test at home in your garden: lift a stone during the hottest days and look at the difference between the soil beside the stone and under the stone. Under the stone the soil is damp or wet. As soon as the sun shines on the soil, the capillary dries up. The Groasis waterbox prevents this.
•Rain: The Earth has rain. Even in the middle of the Sahara it is 50 mm per year. That is 50 litre per square meter. In most of the so called deserts or savannahs it is around 250 mm. That is 250 litre per square meter. The problem of this rain is that it falls in 2 days, and it all evaporates within a week. So the problem is not a lack of water, but the capture and distribution of the water over a year’s period of time. The Groasis waterboxx captures this rainwater and distributes it evenly throughout the year.
•Condensation: Everywhere in the world where there is a minimum of relative humidity, and when surfaces are able to get colder than the air temperature, there is condensation. Two examples: 1) if you are cooking in winter and the warm air of your room touches the cold glass of the windows they will be wet. In Summer this phenomenon does not happen. 2) if you walk with glasses from the outside where it is cold into a warm place, your glasses will be covered with condensation. This is the phenomenon that the Groasis waterbox uses: during the night the temperature of the surface is able to drop lower than the surrounding air due to radiation. Due to the temperature difference between the surface of the Groasis waterbox and the air, the air is locally cooled down below its dew point. Now the air condensates at the surface of the Groasis waterbox and it gets wet. Its design stimulates the production and collection of condensation, the Groasis waterbox produces condensation daily. So the Groasis waterbox does NOT only collect dew, but also enhances the generation of it.
•Distribution: Water is distributed in small daily dosages via a small wick.
•Avoid evaporation: The biggest loss of water is evaporation. That is why irrigation via tubes or sprinklers are so ineffective. The Groasis waterbox covers the place where the tree is planted. Therefore the capillary cannot evaporate nor the distributed water. The Groasis waterbox stimulates the effective use of water. Compare this to irrigation: only between 10 to 20% of the added water is really used, the rest evaporates.
•Use of capillary: In nature seed is spread by grazing animals and birds. The seeds are sown ON TOP OF the soil. This is not a coincidence! In nature, coincidence does not exist, everything has its reason. The manure pastes the seed to the soil. In this way the capillary makes the seed humid, stimulating it to put a small root directly into the soil, giving it direct access to the available capillary humidity, allowing it to further grow. The Groasis waterbox planted with seeds copies this process: it does not disturb the soil and therefore maintains the existing capillary structure of the soil. Without capillary the soil would dry out to dust and erode.
•Temperature balancing: The buffer of water in the Groasis waterbox functions as an equalizer of the soil temperature. Avoiding extreme temperatures stimulates growth.