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Anyone know of some kind of in line valve for each dripper that senses moisture and will stop flow once adequately watered? I container garden in pots and have

Anyone know of some kind of in line valve for each dripper that senses moisture and will stop flow once adequately watered? I container garden in pots and have to over water to ensure everything gets enough, but this causes all sorts of other problems of pooling water and leaked water onto the balcony, leaching of nutrients.

roel_v 9y ago
Well for one, define 'adequately watered'. Secondly, a reliable continuous sensor will be a tdr sensor, the cheapest of which start around usd 200 - and then you have to do a bunch of hacking yourself still. It's not so easy - there's a reason real indoor growers don't use pots with soil. Look into using other mediums, or maybe use a cyclic flooding system, but both require adapting the environment the plants are in, they're not so nice to look at with the tubing and overflows etc.
jamiek88 9y ago
It’s the holy grail really. Moisture sensors are either flakey or super expensive. The best compromise I’ve found is to time the flow. Sensing adequate hydration is tricky particularly at the home garden level.
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rsync 9y ago
"Anyone know of some kind of in line valve for each dripper that senses moisture and will stop flow once adequately watered?" There are different emitters for different rates ... I have 1gph as well as .5gph emitters for various purposes and I think there are other choices as well. I would think you could run the water the same duration for all of them, but vary their irrigation with different rate emitters. I recommend graduating from the hardware store tooling to the professional Netafim hoses/emitters/couplings.
Jedd 9y ago
Agree with other posters - it's either high cost, or flaky, or both. Even the expensive ones require replacements a bit too often, and you'd have to be worried about some false measurements firing off excessive over-watering. The 'water well' pots may be a simpler, cheaper, reliable option -- if you can hook up multiple inverted water bottles, or some ballcock arrangement into a cistern and share out from there with 13mm pipe -- if the bottoms of all your pots are the same elevation. There's a small period of time while the roots head down to find water, that you need to top-water, but, again, convenience .vs. cost .vs. resilience tradeoff.
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omegant 9y ago
I have the same problem, I would like to develope a circuit to recycle dripping water to a tank and reuse it to allow overwatering eithout leaching the nutrients and wasting water.
andrenotgiant 9y ago
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roel_v 9y ago

Well for one, define 'adequately watered'. Secondly, a reliable continuous sensor will be a tdr sensor, the cheapest of which start around usd 200 - and then you have to do a bunch of hacking yourself still. It's not so easy - there's a reason real indoor growers don't use pots with soil. Look into using other mediums, or maybe use a cyclic flooding system, but both require adapting the environment the plants are in, they're not so nice to look at with the tubing and overflows etc.

jamiek88 9y ago

It’s the holy grail really. Moisture sensors are either flakey or super expensive. The best compromise I’ve found is to time the flow. Sensing adequate hydration is tricky particularly at the home garden level.

Aaliyah5654 9y ago

My mothers neighbour is working part time and averaging $9000 a month. I'm a single mum and just got my first paycheck for $6546! I still can't believe it. I tried it out cause I got really desperate and now I couldn't be happier. Heres what I do, •••••••••>> http://www.joinmate2.com http://www.joinmate2.com

rsync 9y ago

"Anyone know of some kind of in line valve for each dripper that senses moisture and will stop flow once adequately watered?" There are different emitters for different rates ... I have 1gph as well as .5gph emitters for various purposes and I think there are other choices as well. I would think you could run the water the same duration for all of them, but vary their irrigation with different rate emitters. I recommend graduating from the hardware store tooling to the professional Netafim hoses/emitters/couplings.

Jedd 9y ago

Agree with other posters - it's either high cost, or flaky, or both. Even the expensive ones require replacements a bit too often, and you'd have to be worried about some false measurements firing off excessive over-watering. The 'water well' pots may be a simpler, cheaper, reliable option -- if you can hook up multiple inverted water bottles, or some ballcock arrangement into a cistern and share out from there with 13mm pipe -- if the bottoms of all your pots are the same elevation. There's a small period of time while the roots head down to find water, that you need to top-water, but, again, convenience .vs. cost .vs. resilience tradeoff.

Aileen343 9y ago

Im making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... https://is.gd/qKRnJt https://is.gd/qKRnJt

omegant 9y ago

I have the same problem, I would like to develope a circuit to recycle dripping water to a tank and reuse it to allow overwatering eithout leaching the nutrients and wasting water.

andrenotgiant 9y ago

Look at this dutch system, mentioned by another commenter, pretty interesting: http://www.blumat.com/en/startseite.html http://www.blumat.com/en/startseite.html