Small trees and bushes watering question

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Ingeborgdot

April 26, 2017 14:36

Since I'm new to this I am finding a lot of things to ask questions on.  Some of my bushes (actually dwarf and miniature conifers) are small and young.  I need to water them at least several times a week right now and keep the soil kind of moist but not wet for sure just moist and not dry.  I set the zones to water every 3 days for 30 minutes or so.  Well, today was the first time my system was supposed to start for the plants right after my lawn was done (but the lawn did not water for some reason which I have on another post).  Well, it started at 8:30 like it was supposed to but only the first 4 zones (5, 6, 7, 8) have watered and they only watered for 5-6 min.  Zone 9 has not started yet and it is 38 minutes after zone 8 quit.  I have the cycles and soak on but something seems to be awry.  I just wonder what I am doing wrong.  

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  Rolando Soto May 04, 2017 09:42

  Rainmachine is a forecast sprinkler which means it will adjust Your watering time using the weather forecast for the next 3 days (in case of 3 day programs). The time what You introduce is a reference one for the hottest month of the year. Example: if Your current weather in may has 2 times less evapotranspiration (water loss) than in august it will irrigate two times less than Your 30 minutes (15 minutes). If there is rain that is also taken into account (less irrigation with the amount of the rain from the forecast).

  If You don't want want the adaptive irrigation is it possible to setup fixed 30 minute timers (just un-click the weather adaptive watering at the program settings) but in that case the program will irrigate 30 minutes in February and August too so we don't recommend that unless You really want a simple timer.

  If Your zones are behaving different with the same setup and programs probably the zone settings are different - depending on plant type or soil properties it can be quite big differences in irrigation (trees have longer root zone, have bigger "reservoir" than grass etc.) but I can help with that only if I know the exact setup on your machine.

  If You need further help in this direction I would recommend to file in a support case at http://www.rainmachine.com/help.php scrolling down a bit to the Support - they will probably ask for a guest/support pin and email address what I don't want to do here on forum which is public. You can include a link to this forum post as well so the support will know they can contact me as well to go further into the depths of Rainmachine :)

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