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Final Review of Adjustable Water Spike

After much trial and error I have deemed this product a fail...BUT...if you want to water your plants over 3ish hours them this will work for you. If you want to water slowly over a few days then this not the product for you.

 I recently contact the manufacture to find out if there was anything else I could do to make it work.
I have recently purchased a number of Holman Adjustable Drip Spikes. I followed the provided instructions and have been unsuccessful in maintaining water in the bottle for more than 3 hours even when the device is set to 9. I have tried having a smaller hole in the bottle and the device is as tight on the bottle as possible. Can you make any suggests to improve this?
 I received a very prompt response from Holman tech support:
I am very sorry to hear you are having problems with one of our products. It seems like you have done everything right, if it is only lasting three hours this means it is operating on the highest setting and not the minimum. All I can suggest is you take it back and have it swapped over.
I occasionally still use the adjustable water drip device on super hot days but don't think it will help the plants much if we go away on a short holiday. But I'll keep looking, there are other similar products on the market. If anyone can recommend an alternative product or suggest a home made device then I am all ears :)
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  1. Anonymous5/12/13 5:27 pm

    try no 1

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  2. Anonymous5/12/13 5:31 pm

    ive bought four of the holman spikes today. and i have found your correct Mrs Wilson.
    So i have now set my Drippers at No 1. zero i believe to be the Slowest 9 to be the fastest
    now they seem to be working ok..Alan from South Australia

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  3. Mrs. Wilson16/12/13 8:46 pm

    Thanks for the comment Alan :)

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  4. Anonymous2/9/14 8:33 pm

    I bought seven spikes and tested Fiji, pump, waiera, schweppes, yaru and a small evian bottle. So far the pump bottle is the only one that works when turned on very tightly. The others do not work because they leak and I tried with all the remaining spikes. And leaking I mean by leaking at the top and not due to the adjustable size. Evian and waiera are too big for the spike.

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  5. Mrs. Wilson3/10/14 10:29 am

    Hey anonymous! You are quite the researcher!! Thanks for the share. I might pull mine out of the gardening box and give them a crack with a Pump bottle. Also, i had an idea about using plumbers tape to fix the spike to the bottle and cutting off the bottom end of the bottle. Makes it more of a permanent fixture, but can top it up easily.

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