Hi this is Peter Stanley, welcome to my channel.
Today I want to talk about
how to setup a
drip irrigation system
really the basics of one
give you some
ideas on how to design your own
and show you my drip system
as an example
so at the very basic level
you would need a water source
usually a spigot
and you need a filter
the one I have is inline filter
but you don't have to use an inline filter
and
below that you would need a pressure reducer
and then your main line
usually this is
like 1/2" tubing
so that would attach there
and on the end you would have a terminator
and
then you would need to connect
the main line to you drip emitter
that's normally done with 1/4" tubing
so this would, kind of like that
It doesn't have to be two, it could just be one
that would attach to an emitter
and that would stake next to your plant
so when you turn the water on
it sends water
to all the emitters that are attached.
connections are made
with barbed fittings
1/4" and I use a tool
to, just kind of give a
like say this is the 2"
sorry, 1/2" tubing
punch a hole in it with a special tool
and then you would insert a barbed connector
and if you're doing just one line you would use a single
connector
one end would stick in there
and the other end would attach to your poly tubing
or if you wanted to do two lines you could
use a tee connector
and so the poly tubing would connect to each end
so that was how I designed my first one
I had a tee connector with
lines on each side to my plants
with one emitter
so basically if you want to design your own
there are some things to consider
first you need to
look at how much grow space you have
to setup your system
the number of plants and type of plants
I grow peppers mostly
so my example fits the model for the number of plants I'm growing
spacing between
plants, and that
is more determined by the type, depending on how big your plants get
and your budget
what I recommend doing
is sketch out your system
with all these factors considered
and then determine
what parts you need
and
goto somewhere that sells drip parts and
see how much it would cost to
to buy all of these
and the next thing I recommend is to
find a kit
that approximates what you're doing
I use Drip Depot
I'm affiliate of theirs, so
the link I have in the description, if you
buy something through there I'll earn a commission
but I've recommend them long before I became an affiliate
but they're just a good company
but you don't have to use them, there are other
drip companies, and some of the big box stores have kits
so I encourage you to
sketch out your system
based on your space and your requirements
and then look at the number of parts you need
these are things like
how much tubing
and also the number of like
barbed connectors or
whatever you use to connect your
1/4" line
number of
1/2" connectors
I like the Perma-loc
they work really well
and things like your
pressure reducer
filter
and also I recommend
a timer
turn your system on and off
and also a
an adapter for the spigot
it's like a little Y adapter
and they have individual shutoff
your drip system
would connect to that and
this other side allows you to use your water hose
independently of your drip system
so those a really, you can get those for 5 or 6 dollars
I want to give you a quick overview
of how I designed my system
so from the, and this is how I initially
designed it, I made some upgrades
so I have the filter
pressure reducer
my timer was above all that
so I did two rows
so I kind went like that
and then I did a little
elbow
one row
and a tee adapter there
another row
and the rows were about 25 feet long
but this is just showing kind of
the overview
barbed tees
of course I had terminators on the end
and then I used 1/4" tubing
on
and one drip emitter per plant
so in this scenario I need these essential parts
and
how ever many plants, I think last year I had
about 60 plants
so you've just got to figure up how much of what you need
so I had barbed tee connectors
I had drip emitters
and I use the 1/2 gallon
per hour but you can use faster
faster rate ones
if you use faster ones you just run it for less time
you kinda have to test run to see
how long it takes to run through
the faster the emitter the less time
you need, but the 1/2 gallon
per hour work fine
so you need to determine how much 1/2" tubing
how much 1/4" tubing you need
how many emitters
and your connectors like
tee connector, elbow connector, two terminators
I think I also had a shut off valve connector
I think I've got one here also
if I need to isolate parts of it
so that was
how I did
last two years and I made a few
upgrades
primarily
the way I do my connections
like for the emitters
so like this
is the tee barb
and that's the main line
the way I did mine this year is
had 24 inch line
another tee connector
and then two
12 inch lines
and an emitter on each end
so with this system I've got two emitters
per plant
and it gives a little better even coverage
and provides some redundancy
and also another change I made
I gave more spacing than I have been
what I do now is I've got
36 inch
spacing between
pairs and that
cause with peppers, if you're growing small plants it's not
as big of a deal
but
some of the types of peppers can get really large
so as they start growing out
you'll really
be glad you gave it some more spacing
cause it makes, they'll start growing in together
it's hard to tell them apart
so that's
a basic
overview and
on my system I actually have
one the very end, space
to add two more pairs
or one pair on each row
so I'm going to show
you how I do those and how
I punch the holes and make
all the connections
just to walk through that
show you how easy it is and
kind of give you an implementation
I'm also using a fert injector this year too
and the first two years I didn't use a fert injector
basically
the way it work is
this'll be an in
out
so your
line come in
go out, so it's basically
in line with your drip system
the actual injector will be on the bottom
and
reservoir of nutrients
and this would have a feed tube
that sucks this up
and injects that into the stream
so when you
what's going out to your plants has nutrients
if you don't use that
what I used
last two years was
just mixing slow release fertilizer
into the potting mix
so that way every time I watered I was also feeding
my plants, this year I'm
not using slow release fertilizer, I'm just using
hydroponic nutrients
actually using
dyna-gro
7-9-5
that's just
what I'm trying out this year
normally I use Master blend
but this is like an all-in-one solution
so it's a little easier
even though it costs a little more
so anyway let's go ahead
and go outside, and I'll give you a
first hand look at how
my system looks now
and also
how to install those
emitters
and the, all the connections for that
okay this is my drip system
it's kind of a mess now
and the plants are still adjusting
so from the transplant
but they're starting to put out new growth
so I think
I think they're fine
and also the nutrient level
I'm using was the lowest end
and I'm ramping that up now so
that should encourage more growht
and greener leaves
As I said I upgraded some things on my drip system
I have a
pressure regulator and filter here
so I took the one off
that I had here that I
showed in the diagram
I could probably put the ones I have
back here
and be okay, maybe be a little more extra
protection
but for now I have these off, so
this is that little adapter
I was telling you about
here's my water hose line
drip line
here's my timer
I've got it set to come on every morning at 6 am
this connection from the half inch tube
to here is a perma-loc fitting
so that goes to
another perma loc fitting
screws onto the pressure regulator
goes up to the filter
and this is a bypass assebly
and noticed it has a shut off valve
so basically what you could do is route water around
your fert injector
if you ever needed to take this offline
or if you just wanted to run plain water through it
here's my reservoir
of nutrients and this is the feed tube
so this draws nutrients up
throught here
the water comes
comes in, goes into the fert injector there
draws up nutrient solution and
injects it into the stream
here and comes out
this goes out to my drip ine
my drip system
and I apologize for the messiness
here but
for the grass, but this is the
perma-loc tee adapter
so that's one row
and it continues over here
to a perma-loc elbow
and that's my other row
so you can see how
I did my drip lines
this is one of the
barbed tees
and I'll show
one of those
close up when I hook up the other ones
but this is 1/4" poly tubing
goes to another tee
and then there's
a line on each end of that
that goes to a drip emitter
so I've got a drip emitter
on each side of each plant
so I've got room on the end of my lines
to do one more pair
this is a terminating
cap, it's another perma-loc fitting
so what I'm going to do is get my stuff and I'm going to install
basically one of these
right here
and show you how
exactly how that looks
this is
1/4" poly tubing
and
these are my drip emitters
poly tubing actually
connect here
and the water
comes out there
these are the barbed tee connectors I was talking about
this one goes into the mainline and then
the poly tubing connects to the other side
I recommend
wearing gloves cause
you'll really hurt your fingers
and this is a punch tool
punches a hole in the main line
so the barbed connector can
connect to it
another thing I recommend
is a little tubing cutter
makes it so much easier
really works with the 1/4" tubing
I like to keep a piece of tape
cover this so
no dirt gets up in there
when you're not ready to use it
and also I have a
tape measure
so I'm first going to measure out
two 24" pieces
and four 12" pieces
and that'll give me
enough to hook up this end
then I'll have to do this all over again
on the other side
so I'll go ahead and do that I'll be right back
see that makes it a lot easier
it's actually easier to do this type of stuff inside
and to just do a whole bunch of them at once
another thing, just a tip
when you're laying out your mainline
it's good to keep the printed side up
and that way
you can kind of use that as a guide
for where to put your holes, and that way you know
that they're all kind of on the same side
here's my little punch tool
this is a really cheap one
it works
pretty much put it right here on the end
and that
and that just
pops just right down in there
you kind of hear it click
rotate around
and I've got, this is one of my
24" lines
just take that
see how that just pushes on like that
same thing with the other one
oops
okay that's good
so I need to put the
tee on each end
yeah, this is actually way easier to do inside, it'll hurt your back
bending over like this
but
that just fits in there
and I've got
little 12 inch lines
again this is just how I'm doing mine
you could just do one line per plant
so there's that
and in there, now I just put the
emitters
and that's that
and I want to
put some tape on the ends of these so
they don't get dirt in them
and get the other one done
and then I'm going to get my
bag filled up and ready to go and
it'll look just like
like these
when they're installed
see how that goes
yeah when I get it installed
I'll turn the drip system on
let you see how it sounds and looks
but let me get these others done and I'll be right back
I only did this pair, I'll do
this one later
so these are ready to go
so let's go ahead and turn this on
I've got it set to come on manually but
I mean come on automatically but you could
set it manually to
do that and
set it how long you want it to run
and
also I installed this back
[click]...[click]
the clicking sound is the diaphragm pump
drawing nutrients up and
pushing it through
see how the emitters look
take a look at the ones we just installed
sometimes if they're not leaning forward
it's still
dripping but it just doesn't look like it
sometimes you have to, water's still getting there but
this one too
I like to see the drips come out so I know that it's working
yeah, so that
that's that
this is my Mayan
and this is a
Yellow Dystopia
so anyway
that's how I setup my drip system
hope that was helpful, or give you
some kind of baseline to
work from if you want to design you own
it only gets as complicated as you make it
but it doesn't really need to be
overly complicated
anyway, thank you very much for watching
and please, like, comment and subscribe
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