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Raindrip 015005t 1 4×50 Flex Soak Hose

Raindrip 015005t 1/4-inch by 50-feet porous soaker tubing

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Works fine
By Sailing Windward
I find this works fine as long as you do not have lengths of over 9 ft. I make it up into grids for my vegetable beds. Each bed has 5 eight foot lengths of this hose connected into a grid pattern with elbows and Ts and 1 ft lengths of 1/4″ poly tubing. Each grid is connected to the 1/2″ hose on two diagonal corners. I have forty of these grids in operation in my market garden. eight grids are run off each section of 1/2″ hose.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Great if used correctly
By John Duval
5 stars for effectiveness, 1 star for user friendliness. Most people plug it directly into the supply lines and try to get the water to run 50′ down the length by pumping in more and more water. You need to do the opposite: the more slowly you feed the water in, the further it will go, almost until osmosis sucks the water out.

The correct way is to run 1/2″ supply lines cross wise every 8′ or so, run the soaker hose lengthwise about 1′ apart (or as needed), and connect it at each end using 4gph flag emitters (flag emitters have a barb on both ends). The hose will fill with water completely before slowly oozing out. Keep each run all at one elevation.

The advantages of this hose are very slow delivery, very even delivery, and direct burial. When used correctly, this is the most efficient delivery of water you can get from a system on a timer. Burial prevents evaporation and keeps the water from clinging to the outside of the hose, it makes raking easier and pruning safer (so you don’t cut your hose by mistake). Unlike dripper line (with emitters every 12″) you don’t get saturated spots surrounded by parched soil. Unlike 5/8″ soaker hose, it does not deliver too fast.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Raindrip tubing
By F. Gast
I have used this product for my gardens and so far they work well. You must apply 1/4 inch clamps to the barbed fittings to make it not leak. On longer runs I hook up more then one 1/4 inch input to each run so that more water is supplied to the tubing. So far my gardens are thriving on this product but it must be installed correctly

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