Dear all, I appreciate the helpful community in answering my questions. I’ve been toying with one of my zones but am unsure where to start. I have one dedicated zone for my 18 fruit trees that were previously irrigated with drip lines. Each tree gets one loop/circle of drip line. And each loop/cir…

Given the huge investment of such an orchard, I suggest easing in and not going straight to Flex Daily-type schedule so that you’ll have time to figure out the why’s and how’s of irrigating a fruit orchard. You’ll want to stick with what you know works via a Fixed schedule until you figure out the d…

After spending many hours toying with the settings, I think I’ve finally settled on something. I selected trees for my zone, input my AWC based on previous data I knew about my soil, but adjusted the root depth to something much more shallow --closer to 10 inches instead of the usual 2-3 ft. When I …

Dear all, I am unable to force cycling even if I select manual (instead of smart cycling). I understand based on past threads that smart cycle is deactivated if I have a drip irrigation. However I am still unable to force manual cycling. Since my orchard has been used to seeing cycling with its dri…

I think the only workaround is to change the nozzle type to something like rotary, then go to advanced zone settings and change your “Nozzle Inches Per Hour” to whatever you had for the drip setting. I would then verify that your minutes haven’t changed, and if they have adjust them back. To have th…

Is this considered a bug? I can understand if Rachio doesn’t want smart cycle incorporated into drip irrigation, but a manual override should be able to overcome this. I don’t mind using another nozzle head setting for now, but I’d like to eventually transition over to daily flex for my orchard afte…

[image] Tintn00: I can understand if Rachio doesn’t want smart cycle incorporated into drip irrigation, but a manual override should be able to overcome this. I don’t mind using another nozzle head setting for now, but I’d like to eventually transition over to daily flex for my orchard after a f…

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franz February 27, 2019, 1:05am 7

I would consider this a defect. I believe @mckynzee @laura.bauman Can you track? Manual cycle/soak should ignore nozzle settings. What are your thoughts?