My front yard never really greened up this season. I had a company apply the Spring fertilizer and I think it was diluted too much and didn’t help at all. I’ve taken over since early May but the front of my yard is still extremely yellow so I decided to do a catch cup test and see if my nozzle setti…

I may make this upgrade this year since the grass drives my water bill the most. Can the Hunter MP Rotators SR just easily screw onto my current rainbird popups?

[image] Modawg2k: I may make this upgrade this year since the grass drives my water bill the most. Can the Hunter MP Rotators SR just easily screw onto my current rainbird popups? The MP rotators have a body and then the nozzles of various capabilities (throw distance, adjustment angles, etc…

Front Yard: Area: 1100 Available Water: 0.2 Crop Coefficient: 0.7 Root Depth: 6 Allowed Depletion: 50% Efficiency: 46% Front Side Yard: Area: 375 AW: 0.2 CC: 0.7 RD: 6 AD: 50% Eff: 50% Looking at the calendar, it looks like about 11 days (Water June 27 and again July 8). Both zones bas…

@tpayne , your settings don’t seem unreasonable - I’m guessing that’s clay loam soil based on the AW? Watering every 11 days seems like a long time but I live in the Phoenix area and I’m not sure what’s typical in KC. What ET values are you seeing in the moisture graph details? Assuming you were wate…

I’ve been using the Rachio since last year. For the front yard, for the last week ET’s have been between 0.16 in - 0.25 in for each day.

[image] ldslaron: I’m guessing that’s clay loam soil based on the AW? Watering every 11 days seems like a long time but I live in the Phoenix area and I’m not sure what’s typical in KC. +1 on this seeming like a long time stretch. If you truly have clay it makes sense that the watering is dee…

Hmmm. Based on those settings I would think Rachio would water when you’ve lost 0.2 * 6 * 0.5 = 0.6". With those kinds of ET values I’d expect watering every 3 days or so assuming no precipitation. Would be curious to see the Moisture Level details. Anyway, I’m not sure anything is obviously wrong …

@azdavidr I looked it up via WSS and I do currently have it set as Clay Loam. @ldslaron I’ve run two rounds of catch cup tests on the front yard zone so maybe that’s messing with the timing of waterings?

[image] tpayne: @azdavidr I looked it up via WSS and I do currently have it set as Clay Loam. Some folks say that when their homes were built tons of soil were brought in and layered on top of the native stuff. If so that could make the AW of 0.2 too high. Just a thought. [image] tpayn…

The Hunter MP and MP SR’s screw onto a standard 1/2" male NPT (they are a standard 1/2" female NPT), since most sprinkler bodies are 1/2" male NPT they should screw onto your rainbird sprinkler heads. However, the MP’s need to be pressure regulated at 40 psi (or possibly 30 psi) to get optimum perf…

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