Installation and positioning
It’s easy to install a Tropf-Blumat system. You don’t need any prior knowledge or tools, household scissors suffice. Once installed, the supply lines remain in place and don’t need to be removed in winter either.
The positioning of the sensors is the same for all plants - you will quickly get the hang of it.
Video guide
Assembling the Tropf-Blumat sensors
- Unscrew the top parts and screw them back together underwater. Every Tropf-Blumat (sensor) must be filled completely with water.
- Leave the sensors filled with water and screwed together in the water for at least 15 minutes.
- This step is particularly important. Water the soil in all plant pots thoroughly several times before further assembly.
- Stick a Tropf-Blumat into the moist soil next to every plant (approx. 10-15 cm away from the plant). The clay cone must be covered completely by soil, press down loose soil.
- Connect the flexible drip tube to the T-piece or the end-piece and push it through the Tropf-Blumat. The end must protrude approx. 8 cm out of the Tropf-Blumat and should be near to the plant. Finally tighten the setting screws.
SETTING
- Turn on the water tap and check that all the sensors are “closed”. There must be no drips coming from anywhere! If necessary, tighten the setting screw further.
- Begin with the setting at the last Tropf-Blumat in the system so that the system is vented.
1. Turn open the setting screw in anticlockwise direction until water runs out of the drip tube.
2. Close the setting screw again slowly until no more water emerges. Just one drop of water should remain on the drip tube.
3. Finally close the setting screw another 1/4 turn (2 marking arrows).
Ready!
Since the soil is moist, the Tropf-Blumat may not discharge any water. Watering does not begin until the soil is dry. Now make the setting for every single Tropf-Blumat.
CHECKS
- Check the water discharge for several days after installation. Readjust, if necessary by turning open (= more water) or close (= less water). Adjust carefully, 1/2 an arrow will usually suffice.
- Do not let a dry soil surface fool you. The water spreads out underground. In most cases, only the area under the drip tube is visibly moist.
Always leave the tap open/refill the water tank in time. Even in rainy weather. If the water supply is cut off for any length of time, the roots draw the water out of the Tropf-Blumat. A Tropf-Blumat that is not filled with water does not work!
