SIP thread -- (Sub-Irrigated Planter)

so my first attempt at making LABs didn’t go so well. I made half a pint of rice wash water let it sit for 3 days. The smell had changed a bit, didn’t seem sweet or putrid. Not sure if it was ready or not. To it I added 2 1/2 pints of milk. I think I was supposed to just use a touch of the rice wash water not the whole half a pint? Needless to say I’ll be starting over D56F80C6-A18A-4B66-B3BC-C392F1C5A961.jpeg
 
Yeah you would definitely want some kind of tray with a drain, going to a drain in the house somewhere.
Got enough room in the bathtub for your sips? Could get an adapter that screws on where your shower head does for a garden hose. Run splitters on the hose, with a piece of hose into the fill tube of each res. Then just turn the water on a slow trickle.
But then you would have to set up your lights in there. Probably more of a pain than it's worth.
Really not a bad idea though. Very creative.
 
Yeah you would definitely want some kind of tray with a drain, going to a drain in the house somewhere.
Got enough room in the bathtub for your sips? Could get an adapter that screws on where your shower head does for a garden hose. Run splitters on the hose, with a piece of hose into the fill tube of each res. Then just turn the water on a slow trickle.
But then you would have to set up your lights in there. Probably more of a pain than it's worth.

nice idea! I have a friend coming by to help top em off.
 
so my first attempt at making LABs didn’t go so well. I made half a pint of rice wash water let it sit for 3 days. The smell had changed a bit, didn’t seem sweet or putrid. Not sure if it was ready or not. To it I added 2 1/2 pints of milk. I think I was supposed to just use a touch of the rice wash water not the whole half a pint? Needless to say I’ll be starting over View attachment 5114611
Chris trump or Hyroot have good videos on labs. 1 part rice wash. 10 parts milk
 
o man had to read again now I understand. I was like 'bokashi organic something? that can't be it'. looks like no till
Just a funny way of spelling boy is all lol but yeah I'm trying out some no till, I might stir the mix up before my next round in order to add better aeration in the form of pumice and or rice hulls. I was still using perlite when I started this soil so need to change that up. Probably add a bunch of co Loco too. But then going to try to just use cover crop and ferments and the like from then on as long as I can.
 
o man had to read again now I understand. I was like 'bokashi organic something? that can't be it'. looks like no till
Here they are as of today... they need a trim but I was hoping to use the lowers I trim as clones but that was the one part of my latest build a soil order that was not shipped... so we wait lol
 

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I added the milk directly to my rice wash water at 10-1. It looks like he pours some, but not all, of his rice wash water to the milk. IDK. Maybe it’s my temps. The room it was in sits around 65. I’m definitely going to try again, not planning on paying for EM1 forever!
How are your plants doing?
 
Wasnt it you who had the sick plants? Maybe it was someone else.
Oh yeah they were sick and not happy with me. My earthbox brought them back to health though. The EB actually spoke and told me, “Just go back upstairs and leave us alone. I will straighten this out for you.“ LOL.

here’s my journal-
 
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