SIP thread -- (Sub-Irrigated Planter)

[meangreengrowinmachine]

Yeah, that was a nice recovery lol! I was going to say that you might have too much sodium from the kelp(previous pic), but they look just fine now!!!

Thanks man! Yeah they bounced back very well!

 

[MustangStudFarm]

I'm back in action after a bit of a hiccup... I just started using HappyFrog and Promix 50/50 then I used Grokashi to make the mycelium mat. I'm currently taking a smoke break but I'm topdressing with crab meal, malted barley, and Malibu compost. I'll have more pics later tonight.

 

[MustangStudFarm]

Thanks man! Yeah they bounced back very well!

Did I see that you are making your own bokashi and expanding EM1? I messed up and didn't dry my homemade 'kashi and it went bad on me, so I bought a couple of bags for now. If you have a worm bin, they love it too. I had a population explosion when I gave them some 'kashi. Alan Adkisson(grokashi) has his recipe online and he don't keep it a secret, but some of the inputs are expensive like the Super Cera powder and Youngevity. Funny story, I started using Youngevity and kombucha for myself and I can tell a difference. I think that Kombucha is very similar to EM1 type of ferments. I'm glad to see that you are doing well!

 

[raggyb]

Yes I was spraying just once and a while
The wick has tons of holes it's a bin nested in another the 4 containers at corners are just to support the other bin and keep the wick off the floor of the rez a bit sorry for the confusion I fill the rez from the gap between the two bins. Are you guys saying I should drill bigger holes in my wick ? I think the soil was to moist even at the top it was some what moist without cover crop also should point out plant was quite small when I planted it into the bin about 3 sets of leaves

I get it now. duh. i think i was thrown of because i couldn't imagine yogurt containers could support the weight of the soil like that.
Edit: I had one like that and felt I had to put something to block the light in the gap where you fill yours. Just a suggestion. I think you want it dark as possible in the res for the roots that grow in there. I put some vinyl weatherproof stuff that didn't seem a health risk. probably could just stuff a towel in there and get a tube through somehow to water.

 

[meangreengrowinmachine]

Did I see that you are making your own bokashi and expanding EM1? I messed up and didn't dry my homemade 'kashi and it went bad on me, so I bought a couple of bags for now. If you have a worm bin, they love it too. I had a population explosion when I gave them some 'kashi. Alan Adkisson(grokashi) has his recipe online and he don't keep it a secret, but some of the inputs are expensive like the Super Cera powder and Youngevity. Funny story, I started using Youngevity and kombucha for myself and I can tell a difference. I think that Kombucha is very similar to EM1 type of ferments. I'm glad to see that you are doing well!

yep! expanding EM and making bokashi! After watchign a few simple things on it, it seems really silly not to be doing that if you are going to be using them. I also had been making my own kombucha but have slowed down on that sadly... I still love the stuff and buy a lot of GT's but need to bet back to making my own. I also drink Kefir as well as a ..."glug" every morning consisting of coconut oil olive oil turmeric, Ceylon cinnamon, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice and honey. great for so many things (-:

 

[MustangStudFarm]

yep! expanding EM and making bokashi! After watchign a few simple things on it, it seems really silly not to be doing that if you are going to be using them. I also had been making my own kombucha but have slowed down on that sadly... I still love the stuff and buy a lot of GT's but need to bet back to making my own. I also drink Kefir as well as a ..."glug" every morning consisting of coconut oil olive oil turmeric, Ceylon cinnamon, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice and honey. great for so many things (-:

I kept trying to figure out why Alan Adkisson was using organic beet juice in his Grokashi, then listened to the podcast "Shaping Fire w/Alan Adkisson" and he said that beets live in the rhizosphere of streptomyces bacteria, so that is how he incorporates it in his grokashi. I had to read this little article to understand it better. https://gardenerspath.com/how-to/organic/streptomyces-lydicus-use/

 

[meangreengrowinmachine]

I kept trying to figure out why Alan Adkisson was using organic beet juice in his Grokashi, then listened to the podcast "Shaping Fire w/Alan Adkisson" and he said that beets live in the rhizosphere of streptomyces bacteria, so that is how he incorporates it in his grokashi. I had to read this little article to understand it better. https://gardenerspath.com/how-to/organic/streptomyces-lydicus-use/

Interesting... I put beets juice in my smoothies but never thought to add it to that. I will have to check that out! Thanks!

 

[meangreengrowinmachine]

Have had a lot of shit going on lately, but this room is finally coming together! Painted tonight did some temp tests with a radiator space heater, bought a humidifier, aero cloner all cleaned and sterilized... almost ready to take a bunch of clones and see how many females I have and go to town! Need to get rid of that panda on that one side still also.

 

[raggyb]

Someone here wrote about a SIP with perlite and I took the idea for my seedlings.

Here it is empty with the feed valve, used litter box
Filled with perlite to above the hole


place seedlings in. probably an inch above water level. notice the stretchy as fuck male

ready for replanting

 

[meangreengrowinmachine]

Someone here wrote about a SIP with perlite and I took the idea for my seedlings.

Here it is empty with the feed valve, used litter boxView attachment 4491759
Filled with perlite to above the hole
View attachment 4491760

place seedlings in. probably an inch above water level. notice the stretchy as fuck male
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ready for replantingView attachment 4491764

its like a hempy bed!

 

[raggyb]

its like a hempy bed!

grows some algae on the perlite but I guess something could be done about that

 

[Superbad421]

Just curious how can you tell it's a male ? I've never grown with the SIP method and looking into to trying it looks handy if you have to leave for a week or two with not having to worry to much.

 

[raggyb]

Just curious how can you tell it's a male ? I've never grown with the SIP method and looking into to trying it looks handy if you have to leave for a week or two with not having to worry to much.

i didn't know for sure but it grew balls lol. all these were started at the same time

 

[Gemtree]

Someone here wrote about a SIP with perlite and I took the idea for my seedlings.

Here it is empty with the feed valve, used litter boxView attachment 4491759
Filled with perlite to above the hole
View attachment 4491760

place seedlings in. probably an inch above water level. notice the stretchy as fuck male
View attachment 4491762
ready for replantingView attachment 4491764

That's nice for cloning too I fill a nursery tray with perlite and use those square pots filled with coco and a dome. Set it and forget it.

 

[MustangStudFarm]

I thought that I would share a little update on my earthbox. I've been following Alan Adkisson's Grokashi method of topdressing with grokashi to let mycelium mat form then topdressing with Malibu compost. However, I added crab meal and malted barley before I added the malibu. So, this is a week or so after the initial mycelium mat. This stuff actually grew through the layer of crab, barley, and compost that I used. It seriously looks like a cat inside of my box.

 

[MustangStudFarm]

This is the mycelium mat before the topdressing: 2/24

You can still see some of the Grokashi bran

 

[meangreengrowinmachine]

and we are off!!!

 

[SUNDOG]

DIY bokashi bran. three pounds of wheat bran, molasses and some of the DIY LAB serum. Mix and let sit for three weeks then dry.

 

[meangreengrowinmachine]

DIY bokashi bran. three pounds of wheat bran, molasses and some of the DIY LAB serum. Mix and let sit for three weeks then dry. View attachment 4497071View attachment 4497072View attachment 4497073

Nice!!

 

[NewGrower2011]

So has anyone ran a SIP where it was purely coco based? I'm about to reset for next run and I have old nutes needing used up (synthetics/Botanicare Kind). Was thinking of taking my soil out while its reamended and left to sit for a while and do a coco run for the hell of it - but then thought why not use the coco in the SIP(s) instead of a DTW setup. I figure I won't actually put much in the rez but rather top-feed and let it accumulate/wick back up for feeding. I think the only gotcha I'd have to plan around is eventual salt/toxicity build-up but I thought in that case I'll put small pumps in the rezs for pumping out the waste every so often and flush the rez with some fresh water then pump out once more. Maybe week 4/midway...

What flaws are there in that thinking? Not organic/living soil but more hempy in style with the benefit of the zez/wicking from a large source (my rez's are 6/7g if I want to fill that much).