Interesting thought! "Water spreads beneath the soil through the soil's capillary action." I find my self to be a visual person, so when watering looks insufficient it seems like it is not watering the plants enough. Based on "capillary" I'm guessing that's the same as "wicking" beneath the soil? I never heard of "Bug Plugs" Great video!
Martin, you have it all exactly right -- the capillary action could also be described as wicking. And you also have it right on the visuals of it -- we all (myself included!) tend to over water because we just see a small wet spot on top of the soil and think we're not watering enough, when in reality all the action is happening beneath the soil. Over the last couple years I've been experimenting with reducing my watering duration and so far I'm still getting great results. My process isn't scientific by any means, just reducing cycle times on the timer and watching the plants, but so far so good :)
@dripdepot We are all learning as we go! What I really like about your presentation is that you come across as instrueducational; and not the end all be all of drip! I'd like to also thank on of your consultants, Mirza for assisting me with a drip design for my existing Arborvitae screens. She took the ease out of any doubts and/or guesses that I had! Thank you!
@@SouthCarolinaTransPlant That's awesome you worked with Mirza! I was just speaking with her a few moments ago -- I will let her know your feedback, she'll absolutely love it!
Amazing....3rd method will suit me the most....thanks for explaining all the methods practically...Many thanks. Just a quick question is the mainline HDPE or ldpe or some other material.
Happy to help, Ankit! We used 3/4" LDPE tubing for the mainline in this video. The 1/4" spaghetti (micro) tubing we used is also considered a LDPE tubing :) Here's a link to the tubing we used just in case you're interested in any other specs: www.dripdepot.com/polyethylene-tubing
Your main line looks so easy to install dippers etc. It's so difficult with the stuff I buy here in Indonesia, I assume made in China. I have to warm up the tubing with a heat gun and use pliers and it's still difficult. What makes your tubing so much better? Different materials?
Great question, I do know I've had problems when working with poly tubing that was on the shiny side. They keep their recipes secret, but we were getting this tubing that was shiny on the outside and it was difficult to work with compared to our regular tubing -- it was like it gripped fittings and barbs instead of allowing them to pass, so I do think the materials (or at least their proportions) can absolutely have an impact on how easy or difficult the tubing is to work with. With that said, during the video our tubing was pretty warm from the sun -- even after years of experience I like to work with warm tubing, though with what we're using warming it in the sun is usually sufficient.
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Interesting thought! "Water spreads beneath the soil through the soil's capillary action." I find my self to be a visual person, so when watering looks insufficient it seems like it is not watering the plants enough. Based on "capillary" I'm guessing that's the same as "wicking" beneath the soil? I never heard of "Bug Plugs" Great video!
Martin, you have it all exactly right -- the capillary action could also be described as wicking. And you also have it right on the visuals of it -- we all (myself included!) tend to over water because we just see a small wet spot on top of the soil and think we're not watering enough, when in reality all the action is happening beneath the soil.
Over the last couple years I've been experimenting with reducing my watering duration and so far I'm still getting great results. My process isn't scientific by any means, just reducing cycle times on the timer and watching the plants, but so far so good :)
@dripdepot We are all learning as we go! What I really like about your presentation is that you come across as instrueducational; and not the end all be all of drip! I'd like to also thank on of your consultants, Mirza for assisting me with a drip design for my existing Arborvitae screens. She took the ease out of any doubts and/or guesses that I had! Thank you!
@@SouthCarolinaTransPlant That's awesome you worked with Mirza! I was just speaking with her a few moments ago -- I will let her know your feedback, she'll absolutely love it!
Amazing....3rd method will suit me the most....thanks for explaining all the methods practically...Many thanks. Just a quick question is the mainline HDPE or ldpe or some other material.
Happy to help, Ankit! We used 3/4" LDPE tubing for the mainline in this video. The 1/4" spaghetti (micro) tubing we used is also considered a LDPE tubing :)
Here's a link to the tubing we used just in case you're interested in any other specs: www.dripdepot.com/polyethylene-tubing
Your main line looks so easy to install dippers etc. It's so difficult with the stuff I buy here in Indonesia, I assume made in China. I have to warm up the tubing with a heat gun and use pliers and it's still difficult. What makes your tubing so much better? Different materials?
Great question, I do know I've had problems when working with poly tubing that was on the shiny side. They keep their recipes secret, but we were getting this tubing that was shiny on the outside and it was difficult to work with compared to our regular tubing -- it was like it gripped fittings and barbs instead of allowing them to pass, so I do think the materials (or at least their proportions) can absolutely have an impact on how easy or difficult the tubing is to work with.
With that said, during the video our tubing was pretty warm from the sun -- even after years of experience I like to work with warm tubing, though with what we're using warming it in the sun is usually sufficient.