Space-It™ Dripline:A Labor Saving Drip System for Watering Potted Plants
Save Up To 20% on Installation Labor Costs
Netafim USA’s Space-It™ Dripline is a drip system for watering
potted plants. It’s a thinwall dripline with pre-spaced drippers
designed to be placed directly over the top of pots with
the location of each dripper visibly marked on the tubing.
Positioning of the pots (plants) is quick and easy - just place
the pot under the mark on the dripline - saving up to 20% in
installation labor costs.
Each Dripper is Visibly Marked
The location of each dripper in the dripline is visibly marked.
This mark contrasts with the black color of the dripline for easy
visibility.
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Save Time During and After Installation
Workers don’t have to stoop or feel to find the dripper’s
position in the tubing. The visible mark allows them to
quickly and easily identify where each plant should be
positioned. This also saves time after installation - there is
no need to recheck the dripper’s position to make sure the
water is dripping into the pot. Growers estimate that the
time required to space out a potted crop can be reduced
by 20% or more.
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Reduces Crop Loss
Typically with unmarked tubing, some pots are out of
position and do not get watered until positioning is
corrected. Plant wilting is the usual indicator that a pot is
out of position. With Space-It Dripline, you can simply look
down a zone to see that the pots are properly positioned
without having to wait for plant stress to tell you.
Injection Molded Drippers
Netafim manufactures more drippers than anyone in the world.
There is a reason growers trust their crops to Netafim.
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Consistent Dripper Performance
Netafim pioneered the use of molded drippers and each
one is manufactured to the industry’s highest standards.
Netafim drippers are injection molded and welded into
a wall of seamless tubing. The dripper flow path is not
subject to distortion during installation and the clear
outlet hole allows water to exit right at the outlet. Ordinary
thinwall driplines (tapes) form their drippers by pressing a
pattern into a sheet of plastic or into the wall of the tubing.
This type of tubing gets stretched during installation
altering the dripper’s flow path and since there is no clear
exit, the water drips from the seam or fold.
Reliable, Quality Components for Your Pot
Watering Operation
Flexible Dripper Spacing
Netafim USA offers a selection of dripper spacing options to fit your needs. Space-It™ Dripline’s standard dripper spacings include 12”, 14”, 16”, 18”, 20” and 24”.
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Choose Your Dripper Spacing
Rather than choosing a pot spacing to match the spacing of the drippers, Netafim Space-It Dripline lets
you choose a dripper spacing that matches your needs for pot spacing. Drip lines (tapes) offered by other
manufacturers are for Agricultural applications and often only come in 4” dripper spacing increments. If you
wanted 14” pot spacing, but were limited to 16” by the tape you were using, you would have wasted 30% of your
growing area. Space-It Dripline is available with the most common dripper spacings for potted plants - dripper
spacings to fit your needs.
Netafim Supplies ‘Systems’
No need to look anywhere else - Netafim has all the
components needed for a Space-It Dripline system.
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Compatible, Quality Components
Troubleshooting a system that is cobbled together
from many different manufacturers can be frustrating.
It is often difficult to know which parts are compatible.
Ordering a complete Netafim system prevents this
problem. Netafim offers all the parts you need to make a
pot watering system work - from the filter, valve, pressure
regulator to the fittings and tubing. Request that your
dealer supply all Netafim parts
Space-It™ Dripline General Layout Guidelines
Space-It Dripline is the simplest way to
achieve a good, long term quality pot
watering system. The general layout of the
Space-It Dripline is very simple:
- Water is supplied to the driplines from a
supply header or submain.
- The dripline is stretched across the top
of the pots and is secured at the end
connection with enough tension to keep it
in place over the top of the pots.
- For lengths over 100 feet, locate the
supply header in the center and install the
driplines outward in both directions with
separate connections for each dripline.
There are several connection options
available for Space-It Driplines. A few of
the most common connection options are
illustrated in the following layouts. Check
with an authorized Netafim USA dealer for
other installation configurations
Supply Header Connections
Several materials can be used for the supply header,
Polyethylene (PE) pipe and PVC pipe, are just two of the
most common. A light tension is placed on the Space-It
Dripline, so the supply header must be secured in place.
It can be strapped to a solid fixture or sometimes a few
rods of rebar driven into the ground are sufficient. The
Supply Header should be raised to the level of the pot so
the Space-It Dripline doesn’t pinch at the edge of the pot.
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Polyethylene Pipe
A 3/4” polyethylene pipe is used as the supply
header for the Space-It Dripline system in Figure 1 (from PDF.
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PVC Pipe
PVC pipe is used as the supply header for the
Space-It Dripline system in Figure 2 (From PDF.
