Sounds like it might be a better arrangement than those BluMats turned out to be. I made it about 4-5 days with them before I went back to hand watering. First they were over watering, so I adjusted them, and then they stopped putting any water out and all the stakes dried out. Then it sprang a leak in one of my tents.
The plant is another medicinal - Kratom. It’s my girlfriends prized plant. I tried cloning it but haven’t been successful yet.