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Originally Posted by Superman
Any further descriptions would be helpful, as I do not fully understand. You and wdfifteen seem to be pointing to the same system...
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What I linked is standard garden variety drip line also known as soaker hose. Note: Drip line is the hose, The
dripline is the area directly located under the outer circumference of the tree branches which is how far the roots should extend.
I probably have 300 ft of that stuff along my back and side fence lines.
They water my trees, which include Italian Cyprus very similar to what you planted, as well as shrubs, cacti, Japanese Maple, just about everything that's in the ground.
Your objective is to get water on the ground, that's it.
I have the entire back and one side on one zone of my in ground sprinkler system. I 'm sure at some point you can run it too long where you start to lose pressure but it deosn't matter, just water longer, water will always come out the entire length of it.
For your situation you'll start at one end, when you get to the first tree do a loop around it the width of the leaves (dripline) then rinse repeat for every other tree in one long run.
The hose has holes at regular intervals and you don't care that you are dropping water between them, in fact you want that. It's just as important to keep the root ball wet as it is to encourage roots to spread which is accomplished by having wet ground away from the trunk.
Again, you don't need to worry about drip heads at the tree trunk.
Don't think of it as watering each tree, think about it as soaking the ground they are planted in which is what happens naturally when it rains.