Frequency of Adaptive Frequency Watering for different plant types?
You can select specific watering frequency AND adaptive frequency for a program in the interface. Right now, for shrubs and annuals on separate programs, I have the frequency set to every day and adaptive frequency turned on. Depending on the week either plant type may skip one to two days of watering.
The question I have is, what is the preferred baseline frequency for different plant types...shrubs, annuals & turf?
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The irrigation frequency depends from plant but also depends from the soil and it changes completely if You have mulch.
Turf usually should be daily, trees and shrubs are between 3-7 days depending from the soil type (see irrigation schedule):
https://extension.umn.edu/planting-and-growing-guides/watering-established-trees-and-shrubs#when-to-water-trees-and-shrubs-1261760
or this one:
http://region8water.colostate.edu/PDFs/hg523.pdfIf You are interested in the science behind you can check this one:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/t7202e/t7202e06.htm
but it has scary lot of math ...NOTE: even if You set daily for turf adaptive frequency might schedule every 2-3 days in spring or autumn - it really depends from the soil, root depth and also Your location on the globe.
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