SIP thread -- (Sub-Irrigated Planter)

[cannabiscrusader]

Some folks mulch. Some use a lid or plastic. Cover crops, even. Depending on your medium/wick and RH, your soil's top layer might get dryer.

I ended up covering with black plastic, which also breaks the fungus gnat life cycle. I got roots poking up out the soil now.

Me too, and all sorts of mold. I pop my lid back on

 

[Kamau42]

I add the langbeinite, azomite, and dolomite lime in the base mix along with dr earth 4-4-4, 3-9-4, ewc.
My sips hold 10-11g of soil, so if u run 5gal buckets cut it in 1/2. Go light on the langbenite, it's powerful stuff. I've topdressed with it in the mix, but only outdoors.
Langbenite 1tsp
Dolomite. 1/3 cup
Azomite. 1/3 cup
Ewc. 6. Cups
Dr earth 4-4-4 1 cup in the mix, 1 cup topdressed
Dr earth 3-9-4 1 1/2 cups in the mix 1 cup topdress
Perilite. %15

I reammend my sips after harvest, and keep about 1 gal of water in them to cook for 3 weeks while the previously amended sips run through.

It's a decent base mix. Too hot for sensitive plants, but a little leaf burn isn't the end of the world. Some research would say that the added stress leads to more resin production. That's what I tell myself anyways. Heavy feeders thrive in this mix. Light feeders test the pool with a tie, but they eventually jump in. Whether it's a swan dive or a belly flop is the question. But everyone makes it out of the pool with the hot tub life gaurd on duty.

1 tsp of langbeinite is nothing. Especially mixed into 10 gal of soil.

 

[GenericEnigma]

Plants doing well. See before and after pH problem, photos taken 12/3 and 12/5. Phenome at back-right got hit the hardest.

I flipped the light schedule and added langbeinite (heaping 1/4 tsp) on 12/4. Also put an ounce of homemade probiotic in each reservoir.

 

[Kamau42]

Plants doing well. See before and after pH problem, photos taken 12/3 and 12/5. Phenome at back-right got hit the hardest.

I flipped the light schedule and added langbeinite (heaping 1/4 tsp) on 12/4. Also put an ounce of homemade probiotic in each reservoir.

Those look great. Do you just keep the trays full or do you have a separate reservoir?

 

[GenericEnigma]

Those look great. Do you just keep the trays full or do you have a separate reservoir?

Thanks.

I have been keeping the trays full, requiring 1/2-gallon each per day. The reservoirs are smaller than most, and can usually go a few days if needed.

 

[Kamau42]

Thanks.

I have been keeping the trays full, requiring 1/2-gallon each per day. The reservoirs are smaller than most, and can usually go a few days if needed.

Do you have perlite in the bottom or is it all soil?

 

[GenericEnigma]

Do you have perlite in the bottom or is it all soil?

In the pots I put 4" of 3/4" gravel, then line the pots with landscaping fabric (partly to keep dirt out of the gravel, partly to help with wicking). Then soil. It's sorta like a fabric pot sitting on a wicking medium.

 

[weedstoner420]

Got plenty of weed atm so my wife requested I grow some tomatoes this winter. Got two beefsteak plants that are definitely going to take over the tent. They just started flowering, no fruits yet.

I think the saying is true, "if you can grow tomatoes, you can grow weed." So far I'd say tomatoes are trickier for sure.
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2.5 weeks later, they're blowing up. Got a few fruits starting in there now, maybe a half dozen on each...

 

[Tim Fox]

I'm growing again, it's been two years of serious health issues, I'm using my grow box sip and my old cob grow light, this is a water only grow , I used nute trenches and fox farms ocean Forrest with some amendments like bat quano and more I'm about to flip to flower they are 3 1/2 weeks from clone 4 weeks Monday, gooyto be back

 

[weedstoner420]

I'm growing again, it's been two years of serious health issues, I'm using my grow box sip and my old cob grow light, this is a water only grow , I used nute trenches and fox farms ocean Forrest with some amendments like bat quano and more I'm about to flip to flower they are 3 1/2 weeks from clone 4 weeks Monday, gooyto be backView attachment 5351882View attachment 5351883View attachment 5351884View attachment 5351885View attachment 5351886

Good to see you back! Looking stellar so far

 

[cannabiscrusader]

I'm growing again, it's been two years of serious health issues, I'm using my grow box sip and my old cob grow light, this is a water only grow , I used nute trenches and fox farms ocean Forrest with some amendments like bat quano and more I'm about to flip to flower they are 3 1/2 weeks from clone 4 weeks Monday, gooyto be backView attachment 5351882View attachment 5351883View attachment 5351884View attachment 5351885View attachment 5351886

Welcome back! Glad you're feeling good enough to grow again

 

[Tim Fox]

Good to see you back! Looking stellar so far

Thank you

 

[Tim Fox]

Welcome back! Glad you're feeling good enough to grow again

It's been a long hard road, it's good to be growing

 

[cannabiscrusader]

It's been a long hard road, it's good to be growing

I've been there. The feeling when you are out of the hospital and sitting in front of your tent is nearly orgasmic

 

[Tim Fox]

I've been there. The feeling when you are out of the hospital and sitting in front of your tent is nearly orgasmic

I was in 9 days at one point, I had open heart surgery and had my arotic valve replaced, I now sit in front of my grow cab and play some Johnny Cash

 

[cannabiscrusader]

I was in for almost a year waiting on a donor for a heart transplant. 2 open heart surgeries later, now I sit in my room listening to Dave matthews and Tim Reynolds

 

[curious2garden]

I was in 9 days at one point, I had open heart surgery and had my arotic valve replaced, I now sit in front of my grow cab and play some Johnny Cash

An AVR is quite a surgery, welcome back. Hope you're feeling 100% better with all the new perfusion the valve is helping you with. Welcome back.

I was in for almost a year waiting on a donor for a heart transplant. 2 open heart surgeries later, now I sit in my room listening to Dave matthews and Tim Reynolds

Wonderful you made it through. That's a miraculous surgery. I'm glad you're kicking back in front of your grow.

Both of you guys are walking miracles of modern medicine. I'm glad you're here to enjoy more years, more cannabis and hanging out with us

 

[IndooorGardnerOhio]

Got a few Ideas for a SIP in a 5g bucket that im gonna build, ill post pics when i get around to doing the build.

 

[cannabiscrusader]

An AVR is quite a surgery, welcome back. Hope you're feeling 100% better with all the new perfusion the valve is helping you with. Welcome back.

Wonderful you made it through. That's a miraculous surgery. I'm glad you're kicking back in front of your grow.

Both of you guys are walking miracles of modern medicine. I'm glad you're here to enjoy more years, more cannabis and hanging out with us

Thank you so much for your kind words, and everything you do around here. From reigning in the pm's to raining down the beans for community grows. You truely make this place hum. Thanks again!

 

[Tim Fox]

An AVR is quite a surgery, welcome back. Hope you're feeling 100% better with all the new perfusion the valve is helping you with. Welcome back.

Wonderful you made it through. That's a miraculous surgery. I'm glad you're kicking back in front of your grow.

Both of you guys are walking miracles of modern medicine. I'm glad you're here to enjoy more years, more cannabis and hanging out with us

Thank you, open heart surgery was just the beginning, I also got diagnosed with autoimmune disease RA I was I able to even hold a fork to eat I was on crutches for an entire year 12 long months of agony kind of and on September 5th of this year I had right total knee replacement so now they've got me on biologics for the rheumatoid arthritis and that's working My knee is now healed and I'm walking again and my heart still beating it's quite the miracle that I'm back to the point I am and it feels really good to be growing again