This you can even make with a cereal box, pop bottles, a craft or box cutter knife, and some duct tape. For those who are trying to beat the heat and don’t have an AC unit, or are trying to save money on their electricity bill.
To make your own, please follow the following steps for a window strip:
Materials: Cardboard (i used a cereal box), Duct tape (in the colour of your choice), pop bottles or water bottles (just the tops as you can see how they were cut), some cutting device to cut cardboard and/or tape, and a marker, or marking device of your choice that will mark onto cardboard
Step 1) Cut off your pop or water off at the widest point so it makes kind of a funnel shape
Step 2) you can make these bigger, but I made mine into a strip. Cut the cardboard into how big you want your panel or strip. Trace the base of your cap and mark the centre of where the lid goes with an X (thats where the opening will go. In the picture, I made mine just a bit wider than the pop bottle tops
Step 3) Cut the X where you marked it, and make it so it’s cut big enough to push the smallest part of your bottle through the X
Step 4) Secure all the spout parts with Duct tape (in the colour of your choice. Mine’s purple.) You do not have to do step 4, but it is advised so the pop bottle tops dont pop out of the openings you made.
Step 5) Place your strip or panel with the biggest part facing the screen or opening of your window, and have the smallest part facing the inside of the building.
The science: as the air blows into the wider part of the pop bottle cone, it compresses the air and cools it down as it goes through the smaller part, hence cooling the air around you without having to use any electricity to make this work.
“Everything you see will soon alter and cease to exist. Think of how many changes you’ve already seen. The world is nothing but change. Our life is only perception.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Cacti Care
Cacti care differs dependent on the type of Cacti. I’m going to break them down into 4 categories for you.
Category One - Typical Cacti
Anything that looks like these need to be watered once a week, regardless of how big or small they are. They do well in both high and moderate sunlight, but should be in some sort of sunlight. They also need to be planted in rocks or gravel for drainage. In the winter, water them every other week. Fertilize them when you fertilize your other plants.
Category Two - Thicc Boys.
These cacti should not be treated like cactic they should be treated like normal plants. They need to be watered twice a week in the summer and once a week in the winter. They need lots of sunlight! They do not need rocks for drainage, but beware of dry soil. If the soil is dry, they need to be watered.
Category Three - Air Plants
Air plants are considered cacti! They do not live and soil like the other types of cacti or plants do. You can put them anywhere and they’ll do well, but they need to be soaked once a week. Fully immerse them in a bowl of water and leave them over night or for several hours. Drip dry them before putting them away.
Category Four - Terrariums
These do not need to be watered, but need to be spritzed weekly or biweekly dependent on what types of cacti are in them. Covered glass terrariums (pictured all the way to the right) however, do not need to be watered at all, plants survive off of sunlight and condensation. Make sure that if you buy a terrarium it has gravel or rocks for drainage visible on the top and bottom. It’s okay if there’s a layer of sand or dirt between them, don’t buy terrariums with no gravel on top. A lot of terrariums will be very pretty looking but aren’t built correctly and are death traps for plants!
