Nugbender
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Beast mode! Great to see, this thread lives on!
SIP thread -- (Sub-Irrigated Planter)
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meangreengrowinmachine
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Yep grass roots 4x4 bed. The soil in it is my own mix I have been using for a few years now and re amending, lots of kelp in there for sure! I'm really loving the results from all the build a soil stuff!
LewberDewber852
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Haven’t skipped a beat. SIP for the win!
Rocket Soul
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Hey sipers!
Ive been looking around for por plastic pots/planters on hollow legs, so that the legs could be used for wick. Has anyone found a source for this?
Ive been looking around for por plastic pots/planters on hollow legs, so that the legs could be used for wick. Has anyone found a source for this?
Welp, day 15 on these 2 girls, a Fast Buds Blue Dream’matic and a Dutch Passion Daquiri Lime Auto.
The roots were about to outgrow their 1-liter yogurt cups, so out they went into their sips.
I’m gonna top-dress with some neem meal and “mulch” with some cardboard later today.
Indoor sips will have a Bruce Banner Auto and a SamsquanchOG x Forum Stomper (hereinafter known as Bruce and Sammy, I really like to talk but I ain’t so much on typing. Lol)
The roots were about to outgrow their 1-liter yogurt cups, so out they went into their sips.
I’m gonna top-dress with some neem meal and “mulch” with some cardboard later today.
Indoor sips will have a Bruce Banner Auto and a SamsquanchOG x Forum Stomper (hereinafter known as Bruce and Sammy, I really like to talk but I ain’t so much on typing. Lol)
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@EastCoastGenetix
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I been running SIP planters for about 2 years for my veg. It was a super game changer. I built mines and over time I revised it and its amazing.
@Tim Fox -
Do you do anything particular when you let a sip sit idle? Do you keep water in the reservoir? Plant a cover crop?
I’m in the Midwest US and I was figuring on storing 2 in the heated garage and dumping the 2 with tomatoes and recycling the soil for next year. I’m open to any and all advice.
weedstoner420
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Same. I'm planning to amend and store my soil at some point soon, but for now it's still in the sips.
Also curious about what if anything you do with yours in the off season. I'm not gonna start mine back up til Sept/Oct, wondering if I should amend the soil now and let it cook for a few months, or leave it and amend it closer to when I plan to have plants in it...
Tim Fox
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in the past i have moved my sips out onto the front yard on the concrete where its warm in the summer and grew tomatoes and hot peppers in the sips with great success, tomato plants 6 feet tall,
weedstoner420
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Nice! I'm always concerned about bringing outdoor stuff back in, but I did some peppers in mine last summer (indoors) and they turned out really well
LewberDewber852
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my soil mix I felt was lacking K amendments and correct me if I am wrong please but I believe that is showing!!!
Fed with some Incredible Bulk bc it’s what I had. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!! Still looking like one of my better indoor grows so I’m still very pumped on the SIPs!!!
I have also been top dressing dr. earth 4-6-3 and EWC
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meangreengrowinmachine
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Going into week 4 or 5 I think (yep I forgot which day I flipped lol) things seemed to be going well but found a few male parts... I'm too invested to chop it so I'm plucking and riding it out! Wish me luck!
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Hollatchaboy
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Starting 3rd cycle with mine. A few more weeks and it should be ready.
myke
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It’s been a cold spring so my tomato sips under my patio have spent some time under plastic and led. Getting warmer now but I still use the lights on cooler cloudy days like today. Same dirt from last year gave it some food,lime compost as soon as it un thawed. 
Some other sips out in the sunshine,some older dirt that I’m just gonna feed salt food ,same as what I’d feed my flowering coco and see how that works.
Some other sips out in the sunshine,some older dirt that I’m just gonna feed salt food ,same as what I’d feed my flowering coco and see how that works.
CWF
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Chopped my huge bushy "rado purple bubblegum, water-only OLS earthbox single plant, 61 days flower and done the way I like it, mostly cloudy trichs top to bottom. Should be a damn good yield. The stem at the dirt level was so thick I had to use a saw to cut it, like 2.5" diameter. I took a couple pics, but screwed up the focus, and forgot to take a whole-plant pic, but here is a pic anyway. It is hanging up to dry, the best i can control it at 60% RH, and low 70s temp. Southern summer heat is here, and I am well-stocked with bud, so this will be my final grow until winter. I am totally sold on the EB, and SIPs in general; this was a completely trouble-free, hands off, water-only grow with only a top-dress once or twice. Never had a single insect in the closet, never sprayed the plant ever, no IPM, 100% pure and organic. Very happy with the results, and can't wait to smoke some.
Newcangro
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Hey guys I'm sure there a good how to build a sip planter, I'm having trouble finding one. I want to build a sip for my 4x4 tent. I am completely new to this but one to give it a shot. If anyone can point me in the right direction to a post or video that I should check out that would be awesome ! Thanks in advance