Fruit Tree Irrigation

Brendang123 starts with ...
Hi everyone, hope all is well :) Just wondering on what irrigation I should have (drip/ micro spray/ soaker hose etc) for numerous fruit trees. I want to set up a automatic irrigation but am unsure due to having 15 trees (avocado / grape fruit/ fig/ cherry / pomegranate/ moringa/ pineapple/ pear/ almond). Any tips also, I do have ag line deep when I planted to I can soak the roots in summer (do this approx. 2 times a week)

jakfruit etiquette says...
Following from David01, you may want to consider a system that you can change or upgrade the individual emitters, ie give each tree a low flow/low rate emitter then either add an extra low rate to the bigger trees, or change one emitter to a higher rate version for bigger trees.
For 15 trees you could put mini on off taps on sub lines or better even each emitter.
The main question is probably how much water you have available, ie tank, dam, mains, then how much you want to water each week.
Then you can think about the flow rate of the emmitters Litre/hour.
Sounds like you already have deep soakers, so drippers might do much the same ? just a smaller footprint
Micro sprays might be helpful to humidify the orchard for fruit and flower set, even frost control(unless they freeze)

Waterfall says...
We have over 50 fruit trees at our place and watering them became too much for me so I installed a drip system on everything except the larger stone fruit trees.

The system is pretty basic, everything is from Bunnings. We have it split between the front yard and back yard, so one tap timer for each yard.

The tap timer are just the ~$35 variety that run on a 9V battery, I am getting about 2 years from each battery. Then a large inline filter and 19mm poly tubing running out to the yards. From the 19mm I have attached loops of 6mm drip line for each fruit tree, the loop is about the same diameter as the tree width or branch spread. For potted trees I have connected some 4mm tube from the 19mm poly and used 1 or 2 2L/hr drippers in each pot. I have tried to use the drippers that you can adjust but always found them to either block up or not give consistent flow.

The main downside to this system is that when it rains you are wasting water unless you go out and adjust your timers and then remember to turn them back on when the rain stops. A friend of mine has a more complex and expensive system that connects to the BOM via wifi and looks at the weather forecast to adjust the amount of water it uses. It also has a rain sensor so it will not water if it has rained. For a system like this you have to install what is called a irrigation manifold.

Hope that helps.