The thought I ran into with the self-watering pots is that I cannot also water to runoff in order to keep any over abundant from building up in the soil over time. I run living soil also. I use our tap water, which is kind of rusty, so at a minimum I’d get a buildup of iron. It wouldn’t matter if I was running short life cycle autoflowers with fresh soil every time, but I’m keeping my soil and some of my plants are photoperiods.
Interested to hear what others think.