I think Morph has one, anyone else?

I'm pretty close to getting one, my irrigation guy says they are great.

I'd be using it primarily for Iron/Aerify/Nature's Lawn on the lawn and beds, and maybe high phosphorous fertilizer for the pots and some of the beds to boost the flowering.

How easy/hard is it to use? They are suggesting I get the 2.5 gallon tank buried outside near the main. Seems like its a game changer when it comes to time; instead of mixing the stuff in the Dial-N-Spray and walking around for an hour, cleaning up the hoses, you would load the stuff the night before and let it run.

How easy/hard is it to get the right amount down? Any words of wisdom/advice?

Easy to use, although I use the hose-end. That way I can boost anything I like, since my irrigation system, drip system, and hose are all hooked up to that. Just load the stuff, set the dilution, and run. I have no experience with the 2.5 gallon tank, but I can tell you that my larger hose end sprayer requires more material or the dilution seems to be too high. I prefer most low-rate injections go in my small EZ-Flo (the 3/4 gallon model).

It makes feeding the gardens a snap; I load it and hit the irrigation button, then wander away.

Getting the right amount down...I tend to load the correct amount in the small one, and let it tap out on the lawn until the fertilizer line runs clear. I don't play with timings and whatnot, but you can if you want--you just need the dilution rate, amount of water going down, and bingo, it tells you product over time.

My sprinklers are connected directly to my water main six feet down; I get insane pressure (used to come through the house). I guess I just have to tweak it; since I'm not doing fertilizer (at first) the rates won't be as critical.

Are you using it for iron and/or soil conditioner?

I have the one that is made for in-line use with a hose system. I recently switched over to an automated irrigation system and haven't decided whether to adapt it or replace it.

They're great, as long as you're applying something that doesn't matter if the amount is high or low. Or applying a lightweight fertilizer to top-off the nutrient bank. There is even stuff that supposedly is natural that they claim drives bugs away.

No way I'd trust it to deliver my primary nutrients. Put down 10 tuna cans at random in your yard. You'll find out just how uneven your sprinklers sprinkle. The same thing will happen to your nutrients.

jglongisland wrote:My sprinklers are connected directly to my water main six feet down; I get insane pressure (used to come through the house). I guess I just have to tweak it; since I'm not doing fertilizer (at first) the rates won't be as critical.

Are you using it for iron and/or soil conditioner?

Soil conditioner, kelp, humic acid, molasses, and (very rarely) minor iron boosting. Never fertilizer except in the gardens, where the outputs are balanced carefully to match the plants.

Even so, on the lawn I usually only use it every other time and spray the other. I'm fully aware that my water lay isn't exact, so I spray to make sure everything evens out a little better.

I have a slightly different tool that works with the same physics. I'll be using it tomorrow to apply Actinovate through my oscillating sprinkler to the lawn.

Back to this...

I was going to use my Siphonex to apply Actinovate through the oscillating sprinkler. Fortunately I tested the device before mixing the Actinovate. The small orifice in the Siphonex reduced the sprinkler coverage to 1/4 the original coverage. Does the EZ Flow do the same thing?

No. The EZ-FLO works off the idea that the draw of the water passing the point where the siphon tube is attached sucks the nutrient out of the reservoir. There is no restriction of the flow.

That is the siphonex idea, too. They just cut it off to increase the uptake. I'll have to keep an eye out for an EZ Flo. I like the idea, which is why I got the siphonex to begin with.

Sprinkler Warehouse out of Houston carries them. I don't think I've ever seen them in stores.

They are very proud of those things aren't they! Looks like a trivially simple design.

Sometimes the trivially, unobviously, elegantly simple is the one nobody thought of before...

Seeing as I'm very deficient in iron, can anyone see a problem with putting a quart of Bonide 299 in the tank with whatever I'm adding and letting it go on the slow rate? Is there a disadvantage applying the iron at a really low rate versus spraying it on light Morph does? Can't hurt, right? Will there be any benefit? The slow rate is 0.008 oz/gallon, I have a 2.5 gallon tank that I'd be putting it in.

Won't hurt. Won't really help the soil level much. It's kind of a null.

At least Bonide #299 absorbs well through the root systems, so that should help.

MorpheusPA wrote:Won't hurt. Won't really help the soil level much. It's kind of a null.

At least Bonide #299 absorbs well through the root systems, so that should help.

It should have some effect on color, right? I figure the Milorganite and the other granular iron may, some day, increase the iron levels enough, but in the interim I can just keep putting the 299 in the fertigator and have it run each time I water the lawn.

I've never tried it on anything but high, and I can't say I saw much there. Worth a shot. Let us know.

JG, please let us know if it causes a noticeable change. And let us know if the effect was even.

Still getting used to the thing.

It will be hard to tell as when I start using it heavily next week the heat will probably break and second corsair application will probably be wiping out the remaining rye. I also plan on putting down some of the encap lime I have in the garage.

I also ordered the TurfPro organic amendment as well as some of the mega green catfish fertilizer.

So will you need any special protection on those "heavy FLO" days?