Chillies have finally been planted out. They’re so small. Spent months worrying about watering / hardening them up in the sun / led lighting / temp and figured fuck it close enough in we go. Will be interesting to see if I jumped the gun. Really slow growing varieties and you sometimes wonder if you’ve buggered something up. Needs more soil / compost but that can wait.
I’m going to ask a silly question because Im not a gardening enthusiast but, if you were to lay out the irrigation line in an “s” pattern. Wouldn’t that reduce the connection points and therefore reduce chances of failure?
Yep it would. On a really hot day in summer unclipped it would fail left right and centre. But I ran into a problem where the drip line in an S or continuous line couldn’t quite deliver the same amount of water to all corners of the bed.
I ripped up another large irrigation system a few years ago and ended up with hundreds of clips and connectors and thought bugger it smoke 'em if you got 'em heh. I had doubts but 4 years in no failures (yet).
edit yea in terms of the kinkiness that was pretty much the issue. Angles were too tight and I just couldn’t keep it in place with pegs etc.
edit 2 the other thing is redundancy. If there was a blockage in a continuous line then downstream has an issue. I figured (rightly or wrongly) that a sort of manifold type thing would resolve that.
Chillies have finally been planted out. They’re so small. Spent months worrying about watering / hardening them up in the sun / led lighting / temp and figured fuck it close enough in we go. Will be interesting to see if I jumped the gun. Really slow growing varieties and you sometimes wonder if you’ve buggered something up. Needs more soil / compost but that can wait.
But the rest of the gang is getting there:
I’m going to ask a silly question because Im not a gardening enthusiast but, if you were to lay out the irrigation line in an “s” pattern. Wouldn’t that reduce the connection points and therefore reduce chances of failure?
Or would it get too kinky, so to speak.
Yep it would. On a really hot day in summer unclipped it would fail left right and centre. But I ran into a problem where the drip line in an S or continuous line couldn’t quite deliver the same amount of water to all corners of the bed.
I ripped up another large irrigation system a few years ago and ended up with hundreds of clips and connectors and thought bugger it smoke 'em if you got 'em heh. I had doubts but 4 years in no failures (yet).
edit yea in terms of the kinkiness that was pretty much the issue. Angles were too tight and I just couldn’t keep it in place with pegs etc.
edit 2 the other thing is redundancy. If there was a blockage in a continuous line then downstream has an issue. I figured (rightly or wrongly) that a sort of manifold type thing would resolve that.