This is so good. It will help me out a ton, as i am new to gardening. I feel like rain cycles and hot times have become less predictable recently.

Never new this. Thank you.👍🙏🏼🇺🇸

A very simple clay pot irrigation valve is an Hydraulic Float Ball Valve (AU$12.95 from Kegland) mounted inside a small container.

nice, worked, thanks

Been running hydro systems in the midwest WA for a few years, always comes with challenges because of hot weather and maintaining water and PPM concentration levels. Im moving back to soil based systems in wicking beds, your watering systems will be a game changer for me. I run of a couple of 300 litre reverse osmosis water tanks and with your wicking bed controller I will be able to maintain water levels without regular monitoring of the system. Genius

clay pot irrigation is ideal for fruit trees: each tree needs only one clay pot.

What size pots are you using in the video?

music reminds me the days when i played age of mythology back in 2005. Can i get the name of the song?

I was literally wondering as to whether or not this could work so that I could do this for trees and bushes in land scaping. Wow Great minds do think alike, ey Sir.

I really like clay pot irrigation. It is like wicking beds but even more water efficient as it won't feed the weeds. Plus, there is less installation effort needed compared to wicking beds. Automating the refilling of the clay pots with simple devices, like in this video, makes it even better. If I understand the mechanism right, your controller box simply keeps the clay pots filled up all the time, by maintaining their water level to vary only within the length of vertical pipe attached to each pot. This works fine when the controller and all pots are at the same level, but would not work on slopes, right? Maybe you want to invent something for slopes as well. I wonder if we could use fired clay bricks with a blind hole as emitters, similar to the current olla balls but cheaper. And then … I don't know … maybe repurposing a pressure compensating dripper as a pressure regulator before each brick, to make sure even on slopes each brick gets only a minimal pressure so that plants suck out water rather than it being pushed out by pressure?

Thanks mate, bloody good idea 😁👍

Love this

What kind of solenoid is it?

Brilliant, Thank you

nice music!

Has there been any commercial ag trials?

As ever enlightening

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As a young Irrigation Engineer I love to watch Your content

Very clever. Great innovation. Thanks!

This is amazing.

Hi great channel I am also from Adelaide however I now live in New Zealand and cannot find drippers with a fine adjustment they all seam to be similar and I was hoping you would share the brand of control; dripper you use as I am having trouble with my drippers either running too fast or too slow, some plants get lots while others do not and the adjustment is terrible.

Thank you for sharing how you modified the electric solenoid valve. Genius.

Won’t the green evaporator box with water be good breeding ground for mosquitoes? How do you control them?

Thank you for this video. I’m new to homesteading and have been looking for this answer.

I have never used this but it looks efficient I will have to try this

Do you know what means the word copyright ?

this is a poor shameless copy of a patented invention. Mind the law! Plagiarism is a crime.

This is a sad and pathetic imitation of an invention created 20 years ago. A bad junk handiwork! Here is the official one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/faaqqpyYfK12ntE

It is a great and very practical invention! It is a low-cost solution to the water and food crisis!

Great job! so practical

This is a wonderful life hack! Took me two seconds to find the end and I didn't need the lighter after that.

A 1000 lit water tank about 8' height allows me to irrigat 220' long and 4' wide raised bed with two drip lines! Only on gravity!

THANK YOU SOOOOOO MMMMMUCH!!! YOUR VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY THE BEST EVER!!!! ty! M. R. 👍👏💪. !!-

I hope you keep making Videos Dr Omodei. I just sub'd and I will watching you older videos, too. Hopefully they can help me get over one of my design issues. I'm planning on doing it without a pump, so stumping the flow to my reservoir when it fills is my current hold up.

Thank you!

Hi Luc. My more recent videos and the Measured Irrigation website have a lot or recent developments for irrigating from a rainwater tank.

Excellent guide. What would you say is the practical limit for area that could be irrigated by this method? Might it manage say a half-acre or more? Is there a real limit?

Excellent

OMG Thank you so much! So quick and easy and saved me rolls of tape and much frustration! Did you discover this yourself? I didn't need the lighter either.

I need to irrigate my hop bines

Where do you buy short plug stainless steel needles?

Hello, can this work with micro sprayers? I would like to use this system for seedlings.

amazing technique, helped a ton! thanks!

Awesome tip, thank you for posting this. I never thought to search this common problem until now.

Cannot believe it took me too many years to learn this or find this video! VERY HELPFULL! I never thought to search it before.

Brilliant,superb,best tip thank you sir

Dr Bernie - Eliminating unnecessary & expensive technology from irrigation is a wonderfull idea... for poor farmers, it can be a boon, specially in horticulture applications ( fruit trees). It reduces the entry cost considerably. I am planning to implement your systems in India . Maybe involve govt + ngo agencies to spread the usage too...many thanks for sharing such usefull knowledge...

Absolutely amazing in its simplicity and practicality. Charles Berkol