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Filtering & Soaker Hoses

-- [ From: for-pac * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --

The experiment of filtering the Miracle Gro Solutions to remove undisolved
fertilizer was a fair and reasonable one. Yes, although pre-filtering a
fertilizer soultion can and does work, it only works for a short time.

You get "salt" build-up in the holes of the soaker hose (or sprinkler system
) and slowly (or maybe quickly) ends up clogging the holes. The smaller the
holes, the faster the clogging. To help reduce salt build-up is to flush the
system after fertilizing. Do the fertilizing, then open the end of the hose
and let the water help clean out the hose/holes. That doesn't solve the
problem, but does reduce it. 

Miracle Gro and most of the water soluble fertilzers are great, but the salt
build up seems to be drawback.

f-p
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OK Ross, another thought. If you can remove that something wuth a coffee
filter, how about pre-filtering a solution and then put it into the feeder?
or could you put the chemicals in something like a teabag? As you believe in
working so hard on being cheap and lazy, you come up with something. The
world will watch your endeavours with bated breath

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275443 (+answer m/c)



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