It is easy to kick em out from underneath the bucket though. I actually stopped using them though. I didn't see a difference between the ones that had the strips from the ones that didn't. Except that when my power strip that was working my controller bucket failed on me and left the girls withough a watering for half a day before I noticed the wilt. The girls with the strips had no buffer of extra water, so they started drooping/wilting right away, whereas the other girls hadn't had a problem, but were slowly showing slight signs of wanting more water.
