Just set up my Rachio irrigation system...flex question

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@jmed999

If Zone 5 is supposed to get watered tomorrow but the weather forecast is calling for rain such that irrigating Zone 5 is postponed tomorrow but then it doesn’t rain, what happens? Does it just get watered the next day? I would think it should.

@jmed999, Flex schedules will delay the watering event until ET justifies it’s needed. This takes place on a zone by zone basis.

@jmed999

The irrigation systems I’m familiar with that use personal weather stations and evapotranspiration, calculates an irrigation requirement. Once that irrigation requirement reaches say 0.25 or 0.50 inches then the irrigation system will run.

Flex schedules do this. We use MAD (management allowed depletion) to determine when to trigger a watering event on a zone by zone basis. MAD is defaulted to 50%. For details on fine tuning your schedules, please refer to this support article.

@plainsane

The critical point as I have inferred is the available water setting. Through my own reading, this is an attempt at definin the permanent wilt point of the root zone, if water recedes past this point, the plant can’t recover and rachio will run the next available day regardless.

I’d give this post (and embedded links) a review if you’d like to learn more about available water.