how to make a outdoor dripper system !

[Lofty]

Hye ppl !

I'm thinking of how i can make a outdoor dripper system ! any idea's ?

all help would be good thanks !

happy stoning ! ::

[pipeman]

If its near your house, you can stick a solenoid on a tap which is basically a timer that turns it on and off like for an automatic sprinkler system. set it to run to a container that has dripper lines to your plants.

 

EDIT: Actually, no need for a container/res. You can have an irrigation line from your tap with drippers directly off it.

Edited September 27, 2003 by pipeman

[Guest Wilderbud]

Hang a wick or white rag from the reservoir over the reservoir lip and into the ground where your roots will grow [it doesnt keep a large area wet so use the rag as a source of water]. A good wick will move water upwards better than a rag can and make the container light-proof so the sun doesnt evaporate the water too much and so you dont get algae.

 

NB. collect water when it rains. Another reservoir with a pipe to the other [at a lower level] would be good.

[white_cluster]

wilfderbuds wick idea ius the go, usually im first to chime in with that.

 

anyways get yourself a garbage bin. 4mm drill bit, short length of silicon airpump tube (fits in 4mm hole air-tight) a roll of 4mm black poly tube, 1 4mm inline filter. (to join airline and polytube together.) as many 3-way t fittings (4mm) as you have plants. and as many drippers as you have plants.

 

Get a hill or anywhere with a decent slope, sit your bin up the top, prefferably hidden by branches. drill hole in side of bin at bottom and thread silicon tube through. then place plasnts in a straight line prefferably going down the hill, make sure the tubing all stays below the height of the hole in the bin. run nthe main tube down through the centre of the plants and run tubes off that to each individual plant.

 

If you wanna use rain to your advantage you will need to replace the lid of the bin with netting, the netting designed for fixing water tank netting is ideal.

 

Good luck and hope you have big ladies and buds come may.

[Spurious]

To add to the previous post...... I use a 200L plastic drum, with a $25 battery operated timer solenoid attached. I can vary the time and duration of watering periods very precisely.

[pipeman]

battery operated solenoid huh? sounds like an outstanding idea! Where would I find one of those mate?

[Spurious]

http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/2000/__data/page/1648/tap208_31.jpg

 

 

OR

 

http://www.toro.com.au/files/pope_inline_dial.jpg

 

 

http://www.toro.com.au/files/pope_inline_taptotimer.jpg

 

 

I use.....

 

http://www.irrigationwarehouse.com.au/images/co%201901%20-%203-4%20view%2003_sml.jpg

[pipeman]

thanks heaps mate.