A Pipe Dream

‘Oh Planty Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling.’ Yep, as the spring-summer system setup season swings squarely into view it’s high time you attended to those channels of chug, those ducts of dowse, those holy hoses. That’s right, it’s time to inspect your pipe.

Perhaps your pipe has been packed away all winter. Or maybe it’s in use year-round. Either way, a quick check for blockages between setups and little spritz where necessary can work wonders for water and nutrient flow. And now we’ve made it even easier to get your critical conduits comprehensively clean.

Popping out of the pipeline this April is a work of simple, flexible, pipe-perfecting genius. A tool of such clog-busting capability that it’ll shake the Dutch to their very core. A bushy, blue, two-headed serpent to unleash within the workings of your system and bring about rapid, responsive refills. The AutoPot Pipe Cleaner.

Measuring 1.2m / 4ft from tip-to-tip, this specially designed tool is the ideal length for tackling pretty much any typical, single section of pipe in your system. 

On one end of the Cleaner you have a 9mm / 3/8” brush for our smaller gauge pipe – the type of pipe used throughout with systems of 1-6 pots. 

The other end of the tool is mounted with a 16mm / 1/2” brush – for the larger pipes that are used to carry water from reservoirs to reducer fittings on systems of 6-8 pots or more.

Both brush heads feature a dual-composition that first dislodges and then completely draws through anything lurking within your pipework. 

Between the brushes is a durable, spring-coiled metal body that folds away easily but straightens right out when in use. Plastic coated for ease of passage, the body is exposed just before the heads for maximum manoeuvrability. Because of this manoeuvrability the Cleaner also lends itself to all manner other uses.

Connectors, taps, filters, AQUAvalve nozzles, the Cleaner will breeze through them, one and all, giving you immaculate innards in minutes. There’ll be no end to the number of places you’ll want to stick it. 

With sediment swept, residue rousted, and dregs discharged, your waters will be free to run nimbly to all corners of your system, providing plants with health-promoting, growth-enhancing, harvest-boosting irrigation exactly as-and-when required. Which, ultimately, is what it’s all about. 

Available now to U.K. growers via autopot.co.uk and U.K. AutoPot Stockists. Contact mail@autopot.co.uk for RoW stockists and autopot-usa.com for details in the USA.