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| About the Author yrt sydney 2nd February 2014 5:18pm #UserID: 8343 Posts: 86 View All yrt's Edible Fruit Trees |
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sternus1 says... That's a pretty bad design, really. A better one would be something like a large plastic bottle with the lid siliconed in place, and into this a small hole drilled and a small amount of very thin tube run into it ( the type that comes with a can of WD40). This won't blow around or dry out, and should last quite some time. You'd get a better drip because a stronger meniscus would result due to the cohesion between the water and the plastic tubing. Most of the water involved in the system you mention would just be absorbed by the cloth and evaporate atmospherically. Somewhere like JCAR would have tubing in small mm diameters, probably, Since they cater for sparkies and instrument techs. | About the Author sternus1 Australia 2nd February 2014 6:06pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... There is a smart valve under the "autopot" banner that closes when the water level reaches 30mm. The valve won't reopen until all the water has been used up, so there is no chance of waterlogging roots. It is a brilliant system, I have several of them controlling the water to,(all in pots) watermelons, passionfruit cuttings in fruit, ginger, sugar-apple and dwarf amberella so far. When the large poly-tunnel is finished, everything growing in there will be in those smart-valve controlled pots. The system is plant driven, only using the water the plant actually uses. I'll take some pics if there is any interest. | About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 2nd February 2014 6:36pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author sternus1 Australia 2nd February 2014 6:42pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author MaryT Sydney 2nd February 2014 6:48pm #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Tommoz says... Would be interesting to hear feedback about the sub-surface pressured irrigation system. The product is called Aqua Jet. John Coleman has done some videos on it and he said it worked for him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEgCWQhhkx0 | About the Author Tommoz Dural 2nd February 2014 7:18pm #UserID: 7219 Posts: 340 View All Tommoz's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... There's a couple of pics of the smart valve itself. You can buy them individually or bundled with an array of pots, some are pic'd here. There's no reason why you couldn't have them supplying large trays with many pots.
| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 2nd February 2014 7:29pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author sternus1 Australia 2nd February 2014 8:16pm #UserID: 8314 Posts: 1318 View All sternus1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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JohnMc1 says... The blue 200lit drum supplies the watermelons solely. There are six pots containing 12 watermelon vines in total and so far has used about 500lits of water. The white 25 lit drum supplies the passionfruit vine x 2. I have them feeding from reservoirs because I can control the amount of nutrient according to each plants individual requirements. They can also be fed from any low pressure supply. If you don't have a low pressure supply, it's as simple as running a mains feed into a small reservoir with a float valve and feed from there. I manually fill the reservoirs with mains when they get low. I could have them on a float valve but I control the nutrient That's why I manually fill. If you were going away for any extended length of time, say more than two weeks, I'd have them on a float valve that's for sure.
| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 2nd February 2014 8:46pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author MaryT Sydney 2nd February 2014 9:02pm #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author JohnMc1 Warnervale NSW 2nd February 2014 9:13pm #UserID: 2743 Posts: 2043 View All JohnMc1's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author MaryT Sydney 3rd February 2014 7:58am #UserID: 5412 Posts: 2066 View All MaryT's Edible Fruit Trees |
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| About the Author yrt sydney 3rd February 2014 9:20am #UserID: 8343 Posts: 86 View All yrt's Edible Fruit Trees |
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Markmelb says... Nope - I have an 8pot system basically just for vegies due to space limitations and have rockmelons sugarbabys potimarron pumpkins cucumbers (growing up strings) OUTSIDE and a cabbage too all going quite well - but ive seen at their shop at Gardenworld in Melboune Babacos in a 100lt pot and a similar Olive tree using their drip wick system(enclosed box)going quite well - I was toying doing an Avacado myself but nutrients are fairly expensive look at the Autopot site again for the wick system | About the Author Markmelb , 3rd February 2014 11:11am #UserID: 7785 Posts: 1192 View All Markmelb's Edible Fruit Trees |
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