Desert Gardening Basics: How to Install Drip Emitters 

Thank you! My husband is at work and I accidentally cut the tubing while working in the garden. I watched your video, got the pliers, and fixed it myself. Great video 👏🏽.

Ok, I've watched a million drip videos and have been installing drip in my yard for years and had NO idea that the fat end of the goof plug goes into the main line. I've always used the skinny end for the 1/4 tube and the main line. This completely explains why I have two goof plug leaks in my garden!! Thanks so much!!

Clear, concise video, a rarity on RU-vid sometimes. Thank you!

Thanks Brendan, Super helpful!

Very helpful video! I never knew there were so many different ways to set this up. Thank you!

I inherited a large supply of drip system parts and I had no idea what to do with them. I learned so much from this one video and I can't wait to go watch more and learn how to use it all. Thank you so much!

This is a great video. Very well structured.

Wow !! You saved me from a lot of problems. Thanks 😊

This video was awesome! I wish I saw it before we did our front yard irrigation.

Wow! Great video! No fluff, all info, I'm ready to go forth and drip line with full confidence! Thank you!

Great info! Currently installing drippers and I needed a video just like this.

You went over exactly what I wanted, and a bonus of being a desert gardening channel! Subscribed

After watching a ton of videos on that subject, I Instantly subscribed because of well explained and very informative; little details you are giving are very important to beginners.Thank You for a job well done!👍

Thank you for your useful, informative teaching.

Such a helpful breakdown-concise and just what I needed! Thank you.

Thanks for explaining with good detail. Very helpful.

I really enjoyed this! Very useful information. I learned several new things that I will use when I install my drip irrigation system next week. Thanks!

Great info! I’m in SW New Mexico and am tired of dragging my hose around the yard to try and water! Thanks so much for your time making these videos! Greatly appreciated!!!

Thank you for this! Really wish I watched this before my trip to the hardware store, haha.

Great video. Rain Bird recommends that you install the emitter in the 1/2" distribution tubing unless the 1/4" tubing is longer than 5 feet, in which case they recommend that you install it in the 1/4" tubing closer to the plant being watered. Your methods one and two in the video. They don't recommend method three.

Thank you very much for your time and instruction. Great videos.

Excellent video. Thanks

The spaghetti tubing is a game changer for me, and makes so much sense. I did my first drip system in a new garden bed this summer, and ran the half inch poly tubing directly next to the base of each plant, with emiters right next to each root ball. This video makes me want to rip it all up before the plants fill in, so I can route the poly in a more accessible way and use the spaghetti tubing to take the water where I need it. That'll be a nice winter project if I get bothered enough about my setup, now that I know what the spaghetti tubing is for. Also the valves!

THANK YOU! Just what I needed.

Great video . Thanks . Even though my arthritic thumbs were screaming while watching you easily pushing the fittings in , I’m doing it tomorrow !

Oh boy, I knew something was up with my emitters. I've been doing it no 3, the bad way. Going to go step 1 going fwd. I appreciate this video!

Thank you! Great information I have not seen anyplace else for alternative ways to connect emitters the professionals in my area do it the way you say to avoid. I like your way.

Wow. Awesome video. So clear and easy to follow. Thank you!

Very informative and well done. Thanks for the help.

Excellent video. Very well explained.

Great instructional video, thanks!

I love your instructions much better than many professional channels.

Great breakdown, I couldnt find anything and then I find your video and tell me everything i wanted to know, great video!

!!!! Best video ever put on You Tube !!!!!!

I so agree with comments. The information is concise and easy to understand with no fluff--thank you. I love the idea of attaching a tube to the end of the emitter to avoid plugging!! Do one of your video's cover what is best emitter (and GPH) for plants/shrubs/trees?

This is super helpful for me, thank you!

SUPER HELPFUL. I'm 80 & not very strong so I went looking for a tool. The guy at Home Depot couldn't get a tool designed to force an emitter into my 1/4 in. tubing. And he was muscular........about 2 ft. taller than I and 20+ years younger. (said he'll never recommend that one). You recommend a simple needle-nosed pliers. Guess I'm off to the garden-farm-supply store.

Your video is exactly what I was looking for. We had a new irrigation system installed front and back yards last spring, but I didn't pay attention to the types of emitters going in (I was working at the time and couldn't get out to the yard while the system was being installed and relied on the landscaper for updates). The landscaper has retired so I'm taking on the job of checking all emitters. I can safely say that all of my emitters must be buried underground. The thing I needed to understand was the color-coding for gph.

Excellent video..! Easy, and to the point.

After dozen searches about drip irrigation, your video is the most concise and have the best explanation!

Thank you very much, from México

Very helpful tutorial!

Very helpful. Thanks!

Duuuuuuuuude thaaaaaaaaank you! One of my main hustles is landscape and yes I was doing the Unpreferred method

Informative and concise, thank you.

So glad I found this video! Great info!

Thank you for being very specific. I am a first timer and your step-by-step instruction makes it so much easier.

Fantastic tutorial for a newbie like me. Subbed!

Really great video. Awesome thanks

Wow. A little late to the party, but this video was amazing. Very informative for a rookie like myself. Thank you.

Thanks so much for this information. I have a bunch of these emitters that someone left at the house and didn't know the proper way to use them. I am redoing a watering line for my raised beds and this is exactly what I need to see. I live in Mesa, AZ so the info for desert watering is so helpful.

Very good information here. Thanks for content.

Great instruction. Thanks!!!

Informative video. Thank you👍🏽

Excellent video thx

Great video. Thank you!!!

Best video! Just what i needed

Really great. Thanks.

Thanks for video. I learned a lot from your video. Stay blessed :-). Love from India...

Very informative. Thank you.

Perfect! Thank you so much!

Best drip illustration on YT...Great video

Great video! My 1/2" is buried, so the 2gph option 1 would be hard to go around checking all the spaghetti. However, I have option 3 (and clogging). I'm going to fix my system to option 2 based on your video...THANK YOU!!

this is the video i needed. thank you!

So incredibly helpful!!! Thanks a ton for sharing your expertise. Turns out I set up my raised bed garden completely wrong. I Spokane why my garden isn’t doing well.

Great video!

thank you for sharing 💯

Seriously thanks for this.... my foreman had me redo several not so easy to get to emitters today because he said it was wrong and won't put out enough water with the red emitters going straight into the drip tube and running the noodle line out from that. I knew the was I did it was the better way but still had to redo it all anyways.

Very easy to learn and do!!!

What a great video. I have a drip system in my backyard that has too much water pressure through the line. I was connecting a 1/4 inch barb to the poly tube and then the spaghetti tube and then the emitter. The water pressure would continuously force the spaghetti tube off the barb and start shooting water directly out. By using your first method of installing the emitter directly into the poly line, I can control the water pressure at the poly line and I no longer have the problem of the spaghetti tube being forced off a barb. Wow, this was a game changer for me. Thank you.

Very helpful. Thank you.

so helpful! thank you!!!

The landlord has the green emmitter exposed for a tree in the yard and it keeps breaking every six months and shooting the water out like you said it would! I was trying to see if I could fix it myself since it keeps happening. This makes so much sense! Thank you!

This was exactly what I needed. A couple of questions: We have many "water-wise" drought tolerant plants: Coneflowers, Asiatic Lilly, Daisy, Black-eyed Susan, Iris, English Lavender, and Ice plants. It seems I should use the 1/2 gal per hour emitters for these. Should I only have one spaghetti tube go to each plant? I know the Ice plants really spread out, so perhaps I need at least two spaghetti tubes going to each plant. Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the video, appreciate the southwest specific channel content, I’m also located in Tucson working on your style soil building. However I disagree on it being the wrong way to put the emitter at the micro tube end. It’s much less disruptive to change the value of an emitter, troubleshoot an issue, flush a flag end emitter vs digging back to the trunk line to locate the plugged or defective emitter. If it’s an exposed trunk line, for sure putting the emitter is the way to go. If it’s buried line, your mileage may vary.

Very helpful!

awesome!!!

Great video

Great stuff

Excellent....hot damn, I now know what to do! Lol

The Best video on youtube

Thank you soo much for this video

Subscribed!!!! Thank you!

Thank you! simple, straight forward, and easily understood. Great job

Great video. Any advice on winterizing those products?

excellent thank you

Awesome 👏

This video is great! I'd like to repair my drip irrigation system myself and save costs to have gardener do it.

Thank you!!

This is to the point

I will be running a drip/soaker hose into my 5 gallon buckets and this is a good way to show my husband who has never done irrigation what we will be doing so instead of the spaghetti tubing we will be using this spaghetti dripper hose And not the drip irrigation

Your favorite way is BEST... and you don't get water feature/super leaks from chopping end of line and emmiter option...emitter is at the main line still works as Drip to emitter to spaghettismall line and maybe and end spaghetti line holder ...

HI. Great tutorial. Where did you get the valve shown? I can only find them with the same size fitting. Thanks!

Idk if he said it in the video, but a little tip is to pop the holes in your distribution tubing while it’s cooler outside or if nothing else in the shade. Once that tubing is hot it can be a real bastard trying to pop the hole.

Great info. The ability to change emitters easily is a great reason to use a leader from the poly trunk line rather than attaching them directly. I do wonder why you would put a manual valve in line to roughly vary the amount of water being dispensed when you are already controlling it quite specifically with an emitter? I /can/ see the value of the valve if you need to occasionally shut down that 1/4 line while keeping the rest operating. Otherwise, if the emitter flow is too high, either install a slower emitter or just use a valve, but not both.

Great video. Helped a ton. Could I use a T after a 1/2 gallon emitter so that I can have water go to both sides of a plant?

Thank you for your excellent video on emitters. What happened to all of the comments?

Firstly, I wanted to say thanks for creating such an informative video series! My partner and I are in southern Colorado and are setting up drip irrigation for our vegetable garden. We're currently agonizing over how to do 2 rows of grow bags fed by 1 common 1/2" line. I'm looking at one of these two setups: A) 1/2" line -> Tee -> 2 spaghetti -> one valve on each spaghetti-> emitters and such B) 1/2" line -> 2 valves directly on the line -> emitters and such B would be easier and cheaper, but I'm afraid that the valve will start leaking at the connection to the 1/2" line after repeated adjustments without the strain relief added via the tee and the spaghetti in version A. Do you find that barbed fittings connected to 1/2" line eventually loosen and leak if they're messed with too much / when you put the valve directly on the 1/2" line? I sincerely appreciate your help. Thanks a bunch!

That was great, thanks so much for the help! I was wondering if you had a preferred vendor for your supplies? It seems there are too many to choose from. Thanks again.

Great video! I grow everything in containers on my rooftop. What would you say is the best practice to setting up 10 3 gallon containers and 10 15-25 gallon big containers? I only have one water source on the roof and my plan is to hook up individual emitters per container.