Ooze Tube Tree Watering Tube - 25 Gallon

Works well forgetting trees started. One of the bags had a hole in it out of the box which i put a dripper in. Have to be very carefull installing drippers.

We have this on a young pecan tree and it is looking great from the extra slow water. Two other trees bought at the same time do not look anywhere as good as the one with this extra watering device on it.

I expected better quality - thicker plastic.

THIS ONE IS NOT GOOD

My kid's school has 7 new trees in the schoolyard that need a lot of water to stand up to the heat from the asphalt. I put in 6 Treegators and one Ooze Tube. The Treegators are much easier to set up: zip them up and fill. The Ooze Tube requires driving in a stake and punching in some drip heads, which is somewhat fussy. The main advantage I see to the Ooze Tube is that it is not supported by the tree trunk as much as the Treegator, and there's a little more breathing room around the trunk. The Ooze Tube distributes the water a little farther from the trunk and you have a choice of where it goes, since you put the drip heads in yourself. The Treegator releases the water right next to the trunk. Both of them drip water at a nice slow rate, so it soaks in rather than running off the soil.Both systems are far, far better than standing next to the tree for half an hour with a dripping hose! Or watering normally and watching the water run off...

I'm sure this product would work great for a landscaping company that had a tank truck full of water at high pressure and some large trees to water. (A few years old at least.) I'm a regular home owner who has a bunch of small new trees I planted last year & this year. Trunks, 1" or 1-1/2" in diameter. I set up the ooze tube and started to fill it with my hose. About 1/2 hr later I'm still there filling it up. The ooze tube is a crumped piece of rubber with water pooling about the inside. How long does it take to fill? I don't have that much time. So now I have this crumpled pile of rubber with pools of water inside that may or may not drain to my tree. The thing is just too large! Maybe I would have done better to buy a kids' pool tube, make an opening on top, make a hole in the bottom and water my tree. Tree Gators aren't any better. They have not yet invented a good system for watering your NEW trees.

Plugs fell out after first use. Had to glue them in to stay in place.

It worked, but I did not care for how it looked. There are other products available that I'm sure would do a better job. It also retained water by not completely emptying the contents.