SIP thread -- (Sub-Irrigated Planter)

[myke]

The domo will take awhile and may end up messing your soil up in a months time. Look for something water soluble if you think you need it asap. I don’t think you do.
next time feed when there in the one gallon pots before transplant.
If your worried about loosing them take a clone or two.

 

[Jcue81]

The domo will take awhile and may end up messing your soil up in a months time. Look for something water soluble if you think you need it asap. I don’t think you do.
next time feed when there in the one gallon pots before transplant.
If your worried about loosing them take a clone or two.

I grabbed cuts this past Friday and they look pretty good considering how shitty the plants look.

If true that Lobster meal is not made of calcium carbonate and has no ability to buffer PH, wouldn’t my peat based mix be way too low Ph wise? it appears to be a calcium/magnesium issue right? Wouldn’t it make sense that my low ph has locked out magnesium and calcium which are absorbed more in neutral/higher ph soils?

 

[myke]

I grabbed cuts this past Friday and they look pretty good considering how shitty the plants look.

If true that Lobster meal is not made of calcium carbonate and has no ability to buffer PH, wouldn’t my peat based mix be way too low Ph wise? it appears to be a calcium/magnesium issue right? Wouldn’t it make sense that my low ph has locked out magnesium and calcium which are absorbed more in neutral/higher ph soils?

If that’s the case then add some ph up to a little water and top water around the plant ,see if it improves.

 

[Jcue81]

If that’s the case then add some ph up to a little water and top water around the plant ,see if it improves.

Didn’t think of that, I will do so and see if they improve. Appreciate your help bud.

 

[myinvisiblecomplication]

Pineapple express #2 in a little commercial sip. http://www.decor.com.au/garden/self-watering-pots/

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I know this is a long time ago but how were you keeping up with the plants nutrient needs in a small pot like this growing in soil?

 

[Lucky Luke]

I know this is a long time ago but how were you keeping up with the plants nutrient needs in a small pot like this growing in soil?

I was watering with bottled nutes from memory.

I know grow in 100% Perlite in"hempy" buckets.

 

[myinvisiblecomplication]

I was watering with bottled nutes from memory.

I know grow in 100% Perlite in"hempy" buckets.

Yeah ok I was wondering how you were keeping up with nutes in a small pot with soil.. but additional nutes makes sense

 

[Xsan]

Started yesterday and I was thinking heat or lights but I'm wondering if I have something else going on. Is my sip drowning her? Leaf temps were 75-80f and ppfd was at 375. I dropped it to 350 today until I figure this one out. Do I need to drain the water and let her dry out. I figured this sip was dryer than my first one I setup so drowning it seems bizarre but...

 

[myke]

Ok so must of been the effects of wake and bake last week. Today is 100% sure day 35 of 12/12.
Sure liking the bigger sips and also packing more dirt into my original ones. Plants are healthy. Coco plant is doing good. Always have to remember to feed her. Get used to the sips and watering whenever I have time.

 

[Hollatchaboy]

Started yesterday and I was thinking heat or lights but I'm wondering if I have something else going on. Is my sip drowning her? Leaf temps were 75-80f and ppfd was at 375. I dropped it to 350 today until I figure this one out. Do I need to drain the water and let her dry out. I figured this sip was dryer than my first one I setup so drowning it seems bizarre but...

Looks like heat stress imo.

 

[Tim Fox]

Fall colors

 

[Xsan]

Looks like heat stress imo.

That was my thought to but didn't think I was this far off. I lowered light intensity and temp today. I'll check on her later and see if she is happier

 

[myinvisiblecomplication]

Who's still using air pumps in the res? There was a lot of talk about them early on in this thread and people having great results but not seeing so much talk about it now..

So who still using them?

 

[meangreengrowinmachine]

Well I officially moved to the dark side! 4x4 soil bed is set up... a few things I would do differently
.. mix my soil in small batches and then add it to the bed.. mixing all this soil is a pain in the ass (and my back today) in the bed. So far that is all the further I have gotten. Going to transplant 4 plants into this today and add a screen and fill it out and away we go!

 

[Tim Fox]

Who's still using air pumps in the res? There was a lot of talk about them early on in this thread and people having great results but not seeing so much talk about it now..

So who still using them?

I never saw a difference

 

[McShnutz]

I never saw a difference

I'll be doing a comparison this summer. Presently getting all my biostimulants made and a I have to harvest a few ingredients I use in my compost tumblers. Fresh water lake weed is one of them.

 

[CrunchBerries]

I'll be doing a comparison this summer. Presently getting all my biostimulants made and a I have to harvest a few ingredients I use in my compost tumblers. Fresh water lake weed is one of them.

What type of fresh water weed are you harvesting? We have an abundance of hydrilla and was thinking of fermenting some.

 

[McShnutz]

What type of fresh water weed are you harvesting? We have an abundance of hydrilla and was thinking of fermenting some.

I'm not sure what variety, I only know it by its look. I can fuck around on Google and dig it up. But mabey you might know....
The lake weeds (foliage?) look like dill. Frilled and stranded.

 

[McShnutz]

It's called coontail

 

[Polly Wog]