Kayaganja
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DIY Self-Watering Planter
Self-watering planters are ideal for growing food! The container provides an enclosed growing system that offers a consistent water supply to your plants.
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SIP thread -- (Sub-Irrigated Planter)
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Hollatchaboy
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Go to the beginning of the thread.
DIY Self-Watering Planter
Self-watering planters are ideal for growing food! The container provides an enclosed growing system that offers a consistent water supply to your plants.
Greens probiotics thread has a few links and examples as well
meangreengrowinmachine
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there is a PDF in the first few pages of this thread that has step by step instructions.
myke
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Newcangro
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Found it and downloaded her. Going to do a sip planter for my next grow in a couple months want to build ot and get it all prepped. Also once I get this all going could I put two plants in an 18 gal system or should I just do one plant to each container
bird dog
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I just go to the local Lowes, Walmart, etc. and get 2.5 gal plastic growing pots with water slots at the bottom and the pot sits in a petri dish that collects thru the dirt for later.Sub-irrigated planter
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Sub-Irrigated Planter
Sub-irrigated planter (SIP) is a generic name for a special type of planting box used in container gardening and commercial landscaping. A SIP is any method of watering plants where the water is introduced from the bottom, allowing the water to soak upwards to the plant through capillary action.[1] It is possible to automate the watering and thus SIPs are popular with professional landscapers in buildings or urban settings. SIPs are available as products, under brand names such as Planter Technology[2] (commercial) and EarthBox[3] (consumer), Ollie Plant Sipper[4](consumer), The Refuge Garden (www.urbanrefugegardening.com) (consumer/commercial) or as do-it-yourselfprojects made from plastic buckets and boxes.[5]
Would love to hear about your experiments, projects, failures and successes.
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ninjadudexp
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Tried digging through these post. How would I add stuff like rootwise? Let res dry up then top water then fill bottom. Or would it be just fine in the rez
Hollatchaboy
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It probably wouldn't hurt it to add to the res, but I feel like it would be more beneficial to water in from the top. Just wait till the res runs dry, and water in from the top.
TugthePup
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How large is this tent?
Hi! I would love to get the details of your SIP designs. I've tried a couple of times with not so great results. I requested to follow you on Instagram. Thank you!
CrunchBerries
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Hey @GrassBurner, would you mind if I shared this photo of your sip setup over on the OG SIP thread? We’ve been discussing smalller sips and we thought of your set up and wanted to share. Cool or nah?Came home to a jungle in the 2x2 tent!
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Got the 2x4 cabinet opened up, and put the 3 smaller plants from the 2x2 in there. 1 plant is a squatty little fucker, got him a booster seat
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Sprayed the hell out of every plant with Green Cleaner, I'm all about the preventative after fighting those little spawns of Satan for the last few grows. New soil, and preventative sprays rotating between Green Cleaner and Dr Zymes will hopefully do the trick. I bought a little 1 gallon sprayer with the wand, it's freaking amazing for getting under all the leaves easily. Of course I broke it after the second use, I've got hammer hands, I tighten everything too damn much. Whole top assembly broke where you pump it. Guess I'll get a new one this week.
The biggest plant in the 2x4 is a PHK, I'm leaving her in there by herself.
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Everybody got top dressed with Flowergirl, and watered in with some Neptune's Harvest Fish Poo, Neptune's Harvest Seaweed, and Fulvic Acid. We'll see how they look in a week!
Most of the plants in the big tent are happy. Pineapple Fields is looking a little under the weather, noticed some rust spots on a few lowers, and the edges of a few leaves were curled up and brown. Hopefully she works through it. View attachment 5116170
GrassBurner
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Go for it
CrunchBerries
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Thanks brother! Join us over there. We got a good thing going!
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CrunchBerries
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Is the food container setup 4 gals?
CrunchBerries
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Hi @MrsJake ,
I believe there are diy plans at the beginning of this thread. Here is a link to another: http://albopepper.com/30-gallon-tote.php that you can use as a basis. Hope this helps, but let me know if you have questions.
I believe there are diy plans at the beginning of this thread. Here is a link to another: http://albopepper.com/30-gallon-tote.php that you can use as a basis. Hope this helps, but let me know if you have questions.
Thank you!!