SIP thread -- (Sub-Irrigated Planter)

Alright y’all I put my money where my mouth is and took the cover off added a gal of coot’s mix (with cover crops’s roots turned in). I put in non-inked cardboard as the walls and top dressed w/ Dr Earth’s flower bloom, bokashi, Sprouted Hemp, Corn, and Barley seeds ( I grade it into a meal), and Sea Kelp.

I also reconfigured my grow cabinet. I was loosing at least a foot in head room and a couple tops were within 4 inches of the light. I put the Outtake fan on the outside blowing air out of the Carbon Filter. I suspect it isn’t efficient seeing as I can smell my plant in the room. It’s a couple days past 3 weeks of flowering.

Strain: Blue Dream (SC cut) x Chocolate Diesel.

leaves are very narrow but not like a landrace either

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NewGrower2011 said:
So fellow SIP'ers I'm going to try another experiment and use "mini-SIPs" to help regulate watering in a small tent grow this time. I'm going to use stacked 2 gallon buckets this time. I'm noodling on what to use for the wicks.

I've considered using rope (of some type nylon/hemp/etc) and draping those down into the rez and then the next thought was a usual 'wick' where the media is in a column that goes down into the bucket. Trick is, what would be a good riser/column to use that isn't too large for a 2 gallon setup.

In my bigger full sized SIPs that I posted before I was using 4" corrugated pipe and now I'm looking at what size PVC pipe I might be able to leverage for these new miniature ones but thought the crowd here might be able to help brainstorm some other options I may not be aware of.
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Aim for 10% for the size of the wick compared to the size of the container. Also depends on the soil texture. A loamy mix is your target.
 
So as I promised updates two plants turned out to be males anyway it gotten so warm now , i’ve move plants outside and even threw afew beans in the ground afew pics of outdoor Sip 1B40601F-068B-4FA5-B27C-7DAA93389A74.jpegFF3E7F1E-90A2-47B6-9DDB-40BFED18E26F.jpeg625085FB-3376-43E3-94DC-78DFC80379ED.jpegDAD814E5-F96D-4A08-8CB2-FD0E83995D08.jpeg
 

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Hey folks,

still dealing with heat issues. Aside from needing a new tent, a portable AC unit would be great. Other than that she’s doing great. She’ll be getting a EWC Tea, with a handful of Bu’s Biodynamic and a cup of stinging nettle leaves. I understand the Nettles are “high” in nitrogen, but it’s the other nutritious part of it I’m interested in. It can’t be higher than Fish meal, so I’m not really worried about it. Here in a week or so, she’ll get freshly harvest Worm Castings top dress and that’s it. The roots are still expanding, which I thought would. I have read that roots stop growing after the stretch… I really don’t think that’s true. I’ll probably keep having to top with Coot’s mix and Worm Castings.

She’s at 31 days here, a 1/3 of the way through

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