KORAM Drip Irrigation 1/4 Blank Distribution Tubing Drip Watering Hose 50ft Roll with Plant Tag, Brown

This amazing drip hose has a million uses. First, it is a perfect 1/4" size. And it's long. Very long. As for it's appearance? Its black. It's sleek. It has a nice shimmering luster. I like to wrap this hose around my body when I go out on the town because I find black to be very slimming. It's strong. One time I used a length of this hose to hold a refrigerator down in my trailer as we bumped along off-road through a dangerous mountain pass. When you head out mountain climbing, you want a length of this hose along with you to use as a safety line. If you put a funnel on each end you have an unhackable way to communicate over long distances. You can use a small length of this plastic tube as a breathing tube when you are slipping through murky water on your next SEAL team mission. If you freeze a length of this hose you can use it to protect yourself in a home invasion situation. There are a million other uses for this spectacular hose! Oh and it also works as part of a drip irrigation system.

This tubing is extra flexible, and also very soft.It has pros and cons:It's great when you have to make loops or need to change the configuration, it's not so great when you have raisers.Because the tubing is so soft, and depending on the brand, you can have small leaks with the barbed fittings when above 30 PSI.Also, because of its extreme flexibility, it can be sometimes hard to push in place and will collapse when pushing in.Other than that, its greatest quality is the extra flexibility.Lastly, I *REALLY* dislike when the title says "50 feet" and then, you receive something with a label that says "49 feet"it's not for the foot missing (with a value of 18 cents) but I did not pay the vendor 98 cents on the dollar, hence ditto for the product: if you promise me a Gallon, I don't want 127 onces.Just change the title to something accurate.

I went to buy this at my local hardware store and noticed defects in all they had--tiny bubbles formed during extrusion process that made the walls thin or leaky (they were not supposed to be like that/not leaker hoses.) I'm lazy, I don't want to re-do my drip system because I used defective hose. This stuff will last longer and respects my wish for a system that will last two years, barring squirrels/raccoons getting thirsty.This came in two days and is the flexible kind so it can do tight turns in tiny pots, and it has stood up to angry squirrels and an unusually curious raccoon visiting at nights so far.Very pleased.

As another reviewer noted, this tubing is very flexible. That is what makes it so great. I originally purchased another brand that was stiff, and no matter how long I left it in the hot sun, no matter how I stretched it I could not get it to lie flat. It was like a coil spring. Very frustrating. This tubing lies flat and requires no staking to hold it down. When I want a riser for a micro sprinkler I use a wooden stake and zip ties. As for pressure, drip systems should be under 30 psi. Use a regulator. This tubing is a pleasure to use. I hope the supplier will offer it in longer lengths too.

The most flexible tubing I've used. The big box home stores used to sell a more flexible rubber tubing but now only sell stiff PVC which makes it difficult to route around sharp corners or from sticking up in the air, it wants to maintain it's coil. It was also a pain to get onto the barbs. This Koram tubing is way softer than anything I've - used to the point where I was worried it would slip back off of the barbs when the system was pressurized but it's been a month and it's working great.

I'm only exaggerating a little to say that this tubing is 1000 times easier to work with than the black tubing from the home repair center. You can actually push the tubing over the fittings with just your hands. I see a lot of complaints about leaking and fittings blowing off. I'm guessing they didn't use a pressure reducer. A drip irrigation system should always have a pressure reducer.

I just put this on a manifold connected to upright emitters. What a fantastic difference from the harder black stuff. I was able to get the tubing over the barbs, all the way to the top of the connector. No leaks, so much more easy, didn’t even have to warm up the ends. Just ordered another roll.

This tubing is very flexible because it has a thin wall. The interior diameter is too large. Some of my drippers, especially bug plugs, just fall out. If your drippers and connectors have large fittings then this tubing MAY work for you, at least for a while. I use bug plugs to allow a large water flow but keep bugs out. Those just fall out of the dry tubing.