Add Silt Loam as a soil type

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The terrific news is, Rachio doesn’t lock you in to soil types — you can change the Available Water Content manually to match your true soil properties. Soil setting only affects the AWC.

Maybe your soil analysis includes the AWC? If not, see this awesome post on how to find your likely AWC:

Using Web Soil Survey to define your soil settings

I found through my own experience that setting an incorrect soil type can have a dramatic impact on the watering duration and frequency of flex schedules. I’d lived in my home for 22 years and always assumed we had a lot of clay in our desert soil. Through these forums I found that was not the case, and instead we have sandy loam. Changing that setting really had a big impact on my scheduling. Finding out your soil type can be confusing, but I personally found the USDA Web Soil Survey site t…

Changing AWC:
https://support.rachio.com/hc/en-us/articles/115010542148-What-are-Advanced-Zone-Settings-