Home
Care Sheet
Visitor Photos
Product Selection Guides
Bearded Dragon Care Q&A
Forums
New posts
Search forums
Resources
Latest reviews
Search resources
Bearded Dragon Care Q&A
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
What's new
New posts
New media
New media comments
New resources
New profile posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
New profile posts
Search profile posts
Help
Website Help Guides
Contact Us
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Website & Community
Break Room (formerly Off Topic)
Claud The Backyard Farmer (self proclaimed)
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
[QUOTE="Claudiusx, post: 1929962, member: 31715"] [b]WE'VE GOT SPROUTS!!![/b] Actually I did 2 days ago, but I was waiting to make the announcement until yesterday because I figured more would pop up and I could get a better picture lol! But it's been cloudy and cold the last 3 days. Starting tomorrow though it is going to warm up significantly... high 70s-80. When it passes 80 I get too hot LOL But the plants should like it. I'll get some pictures up today. I think I was overwatering my plants though. Some of the transplants were turning yellow and I did some research (my soil should be very nutrient dense) which led me to believe it was just overwatering. And looking back at it, I definitely think I was. So I'm cutting back and will see how that goes. I ordered another sunblaster fixture lol, just to be able to use a grow light. All the seeds I planted are sprouting and becoming very leggy. I'm probably gonna dump them. All because I can't get them enough light. Luckily I have a 3 foot sunblaster in Tombo's tank that I want to switch for a 2 foot one. I still have the sunblaster bulb for the 3 foot which will be perfect for seedlings. Oh and advice for anyone, if you're digging near sprinkler lines, don't start jabbing your pitchfork into the ground lol. I was digging two holes along our fenceline to plant the new blueberry bushes. The instructions on the plant were clear, dig a hole, fill it with water. If it doesn't drain completely in half an hour, pick a new spot. So I dug 2, filled both with water, and came back 10 minutes later. 1 was empty completely, the other (only 2 feet away) looked like it didn't go down at all. I figured there was a clay layer or something there, so I got the pitchfork and started jabbing into the muddy water blindly, trying to open up a path for the water. Soon, I saw some movement on the water surface, I broke into a sprinkler supply line with the tip of the fork. Why... Why am I cursed against sprinklers on this project! I was a bit peeved, because there were 3 sprinkler lines all in the same trench. I understand why, it's easier to run all your lines in 1 trench. You don't have to dig multiples. But these guys doing it never think about the next schmuck who will have to work on the pipes. The problem when you have 3 pipes all right next to eachother is, you have no stinking room to make any repairs on the pipe! Luckily in my case, the pipes were stacked in a diagonal fashion, and of course I hit the top pipe, so the easiest one to work on. But at work we've see guys lay them literally stacked vertically on top of eachother. You are never working on them again if 1 breaks lol. So I had to trench over 6 feet each way to be able to have enough flex in the PVC just to be able to cut it without cutting all the other pipes. Then I tried a jankey way of fixing it, just cut it and use a slip joint to rejoin it. I knew this was going to have a big failure chance based simply off of the room I had to work, and the positions the pipes were all in. But its a 50 cent repair and if it doesn't work, really all I did was wasted 5 minutes. Unfortunately, it didn't work. The right way would be to use 4 elbows to reconnect (1 elbow up, 1 elbow over, extension piece, 1 elbow down, 1 elbow into other end) You make basically A square U shape repair with the pipe. This increases head loss, but on a sprinkler line it's not much of an issue. Would never do this with the 2-3 inch PVC I work with sometimes at work.But on 3/4 PVC sprinkler, it's basically the standard method to fix an inline break. They make extendable PVC fittings that are made for fixing that, but no professional I know uses or trusts those types of things. So instead, I'm going to try something that is relatively knew, but some guys are swearing by, it's "sharkbite" fittings. and very strong flexible sprinkler line inplace of the PVC. It was a 7 dollar part, but it will be an easy repair. I'll take a picture of it when I go out to fix it. Hopefully we get a little bit of sun as I don't quite like working out there when it's been this cold and cloudy. -Brandon [/QUOTE]
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Website & Community
Break Room (formerly Off Topic)
Claud The Backyard Farmer (self proclaimed)
Top
Bottom