Raindrip R280DT Drip-A-Long™ 1/4 in. Dripline Kit includes 50 feet of 1/4-Inch Dripline preassembled with 1/2 GPH drippers, 5 Barbed Tees, 5 Barbed Elbows, 5 Barbed Couplings, 5 End Plugs

Ladies and gentlemen, gather 'round, for I have a tale of technological triumph that will surely leave you in stitches and awe. Picture this: a Raindrip R560DP Automatic Drip Irrigation Watering Kit with Timer, a marvel of modern engineering, designed to pamper your plants like royalty. And not just for a brief fling, oh no, but for over a year of daily use! Strap yourselves in as we embark on a comedic journey through the land of automated irrigation. Now, let's be real – this drip irrigation kit isn't just a gadget; it's a plant spa. It's the equivalent of having a personal butler for your begonias. Can't you just see it now? Your little green friends lining up, tiny towels over their leafy shoulders, waiting for their turn under the gentle streams of water. "Oh, Jeeves, please adjust the droplet frequency," they'd exclaim in their best British accents, if plants could talk. But here's the kicker: it's been going on for over a year! That's 365 days of precision watering, 365 days of botanical bliss. You've got to give it up for the Raindrip R560DP – it's outlasted some celebrity marriages, and it's a whole lot cheaper than therapy. But of course, like any good sitcom, there must be some hiccups along the way. Imagine the poor delivery guy seeing your front yard turned into a battlefield of hoses and stakes, the chaos resembling the aftermath of a garden gnome uprising. And who could forget the time the timer decided it was a stand-up comedian, mistaking 3 AM for prime watering time, giving your plants a surprise late-night shower worthy of a slapstick routine. Oh, and let's not neglect the endless source of entertainment this kit provides. Friends and family gathered 'round, placing bets on which plant will get hit square in the leaf, and whether that squirrel that's been eyeing your tomatoes will finally get the soaking it deserves. It's like the botanical version of a reality TV show – and who could have predicted that would involve so much water? In conclusion, the Raindrip R560DP Automatic Drip Irrigation Watering Kit with Timer is not just a gardening tool; it's a comedy goldmine. It's the unsung hero of your backyard, the performer of unintentional slapstick, and the keeper of hydrated horticulture. So, raise your watering cans and give a standing ovation to a year of automated irrigation antics that rival the best of sitcoms. Bravo, Raindrip, bravo!

Very easy to assemble for my eight tomato plants in buckets. Timer works great. Some of the drip heads did not work. Contacted the seller and response was immediate with replacement parts arriving a few days later. Great product. Definitely a good buy!

This was my first drip system to set up and use. I give 4 stars based on the following: Pros 1. Easy to set up, all I needed was a pair of scissors to cut the tubing and a hammer to secure the tube clamps. Did not have to preheat the tubing, just pushed in the barbed connectors into the tubing with my bare fingers and everything worked just fine. 2. Total time to set up for 6 pots spread around my patio was about 1 hour, which involved running a tube up and over my garage door. Without that step, would have been more like 20-30 minutes. 3. Timer was easy to figure out and start using right away. 4. Plenty of tees, elbows and emitters. Cons 1. Not nearly enough tubing clamps provided. I had to borrow from my hardware stash to secure about 20 ft of tubing, putting a clamp every 18 inches or so. Also there are not as many stakes as there are emitters. I feel there should be a one-to-one ratio of those. 2. The drip rate that comes out is not adjustable. So because I have different size pots, I had to put 3 drip emitters in a large 20" diameter pot, while a smaller 8" diameter pot only gets 1 emitter. Even with that, the 8" pot saucer overflows after a watering cycle, while the larger pot's saucer doesn't even fill up. I am going to replace them with adjustable rate heads so I can balance the system. 3. The drip tends to go straight down through the high-quality potting soil in my pots, and does not soak sideways very well. I expected more even distribution side-to-side. I am going to try out some "bubbler" type heads to see if that gives me better coverage.

I have a couple potted plants that require a ton of water. I was about to head to a week-long vacation. I did a ton of research and compared different products annd prices and landed on this product. I’ve never once set up drip irrigation. Or any irrigation, for that matter. After watching the helpful video raindrop provides on YouTube and doing a bit of math, I was easily able to set the timer to the correct setting to provide the correct amount of water for my 2 plants. I’ve since come back from vacation and it worked like a charm. My 2 potted plants look better than ever! I may contenue to use this product to water my plants so I don’t have to anymore. Highly recommend. Worth every penny. One less thing to worry about.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: This is a good kit for someone who's setting up a drip system for the first time, because it contains everything you need. And it's easy to install. I give it 3 stars, because it's not very durable. I first used it for about 2 months for a trip. When I reinstalled it the following year, there were leaks at all the connection points. I tried wrapping leak-proof tape around everything, but it didn't help. Maybe it was it the heat that wore it down? Not sure.

More people need to know about this product . you can maintain a very productive container garden with this cheap system . Great insurance for your hard work

First, let me say that the concept of this kit is really great. The amount of materials included is adequate for its purpose. The timer, while difficult to understand and lacking greatly in programming flexibility, does an adequate job of controlling the water. But.... The drippers are J, U, N, K. JUNK!!! I set this system up to water a total of six containers, using 2 drippers in each of the 4 larger containers, and 1 each in the smaller containers. The test run with the timer on manual performed as expected, except 1 of the 2 drippers in 2 of the large container didn't operate properly. After 30 minutes of operation, 1 dripper hadn't emitted any water, and the other failed dripper had allowed less than (guessing here) about a CUP of water. The other dripper in each of the 2 failed pairs had emitted a decent amount of water. I am not sure is was the amount promised (should have been around a quart) but it seemed to be working OK. One of the single drippers was OK, (container 6). But the other single one was allowing very little water to pass, (Container 5). Specifications of the installation are: Water pressure at faucet was between 45-50 pounds PSI. Total run of the tubing was about 30-feet. Total number of installed drippers was 10, in groups of 2,2,2,2,1,1. The containers with the double drippers were closest to the timer, and the single drippers at the end of the run. The Initial failed drippers in the twin groups were in containers 2 and 3. and the single container failure was in container 5. Container 6, the farthest from the timer actually was outputting the greatest amount of water. I double checked the 1/4-inch water line to verify there were no kinks, and only 1 very slight leak at dripper #10. (This was the dripper in container 6 that WAS emitting water. ) Becoming frustrated with the significant inconsistencies of the system, I decided to swap out the inoperative drippers with some of the unused ones. After removing each inoperative dripper., (I cut the 1/4-inch tubing very close to each of the drippers, and water flowed from the tube with significant force.) I installed a new dripper in each failed location. (One at a time to test water pressure and dripper flow after each change, and learned that one of the replacement drippers also did not function. ) Fortunately, I was able to find 10 good ones out of the batch of 20 included in the kit, and retested the system. Finally, the system seemed to be operating properly. I set the timer to turn on every 6 hours, and run for 20 minutes. This gave 4 watering cycles a day for a total operating time of 80 minutes. At dripper rating of 1/2 gallon per hour, this should have output a bit more than a gallon a day, per dripper. This would put 2 gallons/day in the large containers and about a gallon/day in the small containers. I was concerned that this may have been over-watering the containers. But each was filled with a mixture of potting soil, compost, and about 25-30% of real garden dirt; and each container had drain holes to prevent flooding. I also felt that knowing the drainage abilities of the soil and the containers, and that July was generally a hot month in Missouri, over-watering was much less of a threat to the plants than under-watering After a 2nd successful test run, and another 24 hours on automatic, I felt confident that it would keep my veggies and flowers in good shape while I was away from home for 8 days. On departure day, I double checked all the drippers with a quick 10-minute manual cycle. All seemed normal. When I returned, the plants in container 1 and 2 (2 drippers each) were dry, and the plants looked a bit dry, too. The plants in container 3 were VERY dry and wilted. I lost 3 of the 4 plants in that container. Container 4 was fine. Plants looked healthy, and the soil was damp. Container 5 was flowers, and they were dry and wilted; but not yet dead. (Heavy watering for a couple days brought most back.) Container 6 was flowers, and they were doing fine. I immediately turned the timer to manual to see what the trouble was, and water flowed all the way through to container 6. But predictably, the plants with poor appearance were getting little or NO water. I hand watered everything that was dry with the garden hose and when the timer was checked the next day, it was operating on the anticipated schedule. The moral of the story is that the quality of the REALLY IMPORTANT part of the kit is unreliable, and not to be trusted. (Hence, the 1-star rating.) If I could return the kit, I'd do so. But the return window had passed. As I am stuck with this system, I will attempt to locate some drippers locally that are made by a different manufacturer and see of I can save the system. I've invested a lot of time and energy to just tear it all out and throw it in the trash.

For the price you can't beat what you get with this kit. Really easy to set up, though it can be some work getting the hose on to the fittings. Nice to be able to design your own drip system. So far the hosing is very sturdy, even survived a couple of encounters with a weed whacker (not that I recommend trying that). I've had a couple of emitters fail on me, either clogging up completely, or shooting out water like a fire hose. So I've had to order some spare emitters, which I was hoping not to do. Still very well worth the price. Not having to water my potted plants by hand every day has saved me so much time.