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We are currently deploying our DYI Drip Irrigation System for our Calamansi Plants.
We are using recycled water containers (7-10 liters).
The system is our response to our concern on the long term effect of our heavy flooding irrigation technic. The system, while is needed by our Calamansi plants for maintenance and flowering is also destryong our top soil.
This maybe unique to our farm given it's topography (flat-rolling-sloping).
Our drip irrigation system hopefully decreases our top soil degradation while at the same time still provide the right volume of water to each plant.
We are only utilizing recycle water containers, we placed 1 hole at the bottom part using a 1.5 inches nail. Containers need to have caps for the system to work.
The tightness of the cap and in some cases the length of the coconut husks we placed in some of the containers determine the flow rate. We are continuously monitoring as we need the water to be flowing at the rate of 7-10 liters in 24 hours. Is the volume enough per tree per our current containers? Probably not fr now but we can increase the container size or number of containers later.
There are admittedly some inefficiencies in our system given the number of trees we have. However, we are willing to forego the inefficiency factor for now in exchange for solving our top soil erosion.
Praying to the Calamansi Gods on the success of this project,
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