SIP thread -- (Sub-Irrigated Planter)

Nugbender said:
The BAS price also supports small local communities as well, better than giving Amazon dot com $. Great looking kids you have there, what bed frame set up is that, grass roots bed?

The great thing about soil is that the soil gets better with age when nurtured. Also much easier to maintain, in the long run. SST (Sprouted Seed Teas) are great for soils and relatively cheap for the among you can get. Kelp super cheap in bulk and is universally great for soil, microbes are probably the most costly but they also amazing work on plants.

Haven't used rootwise specifically but have others brands that have the same inoculants.
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Yep grass roots 4x4 bed. The soil in it is my own mix I have been using for a few years now and re amending, lots of kelp in there for sure! I'm really loving the results from all the build a soil stuff!
 
Hey sipers!

Ive been looking around for por plastic pots/planters on hollow legs, so that the legs could be used for wick. Has anyone found a source for this?
 
Welp, day 15 on these 2 girls, a Fast Buds Blue Dream’matic and a Dutch Passion Daquiri Lime Auto.

The roots were about to outgrow their 1-liter yogurt cups, so out they went into their sips.

I’m gonna top-dress with some neem meal and “mulch” with some cardboard later today.

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Indoor sips will have a Bruce Banner Auto and a SamsquanchOG x Forum Stomper (hereinafter known as Bruce and Sammy, I really like to talk but I ain’t so much on typing. Lol)
 
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Tim Fox said:
I'm taking the summer off from growing, sips are sitting idle, all my veggies are in the ground this year
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@Tim Fox -

Do you do anything particular when you let a sip sit idle? Do you keep water in the reservoir? Plant a cover crop?

I’m in the Midwest US and I was figuring on storing 2 in the heated garage and dumping the 2 with tomatoes and recycling the soil for next year. I’m open to any and all advice.
 
Tim Fox said:
I'm taking the summer off from growing, sips are sitting idle, all my veggies are in the ground this year
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Same. I'm planning to amend and store my soil at some point soon, but for now it's still in the sips.

Also curious about what if anything you do with yours in the off season. I'm not gonna start mine back up til Sept/Oct, wondering if I should amend the soil now and let it cook for a few months, or leave it and amend it closer to when I plan to have plants in it...
 
weedstoner420 said:
Same. I'm planning to amend and store my soil at some point soon, but for now it's still in the sips.

Also curious about what if anything you do with yours in the off season. I'm not gonna start mine back up til Sept/Oct, wondering if I should amend the soil now and let it cook for a few months, or leave it and amend it closer to when I plan to have plants in it...
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in the past i have moved my sips out onto the front yard on the concrete where its warm in the summer and grew tomatoes and hot peppers in the sips with great success, tomato plants 6 feet tall,
 
Tim Fox said:
in the past i have moved my sips out onto the front yard on the concrete where its warm in the summer and grew tomatoes and hot peppers in the sips with great success, tomato plants 6 feet tall,
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Nice! I'm always concerned about bringing outdoor stuff back in, but I did some peppers in mine last summer (indoors) and they turned out really well
 
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my soil mix I felt was lacking K amendments and correct me if I am wrong please but I believe that is showing!!!
Fed with some Incredible Bulk bc it’s what I had. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!! Still looking like one of my better indoor grows so I’m still very pumped on the SIPs!!!
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I have also been top dressing dr. earth 4-6-3 and EWC
 

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Going into week 4 or 5 I think (yep I forgot which day I flipped lol) things seemed to be going well but found a few male parts... I'm too invested to chop it so I'm plucking and riding it out! Wish me luck!
 

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It’s been a cold spring so my tomato sips under my patio have spent some time under plastic and led. Getting warmer now but I still use the lights on cooler cloudy days like today. Same dirt from last year gave it some food,lime compost as soon as it un thawed. CE280B45-32E4-4923-A35B-354C20E43019.jpegSome other sips out in the sunshine,some older dirt that I’m just gonna feed salt food ,same as what I’d feed my flowering coco and see how that works.58412D17-3D2A-4C59-8FBC-E0BDD1D802D4.jpeg
 
Chopped my huge bushy "rado purple bubblegum, water-only OLS earthbox single plant, 61 days flower and done the way I like it, mostly cloudy trichs top to bottom. Should be a damn good yield. The stem at the dirt level was so thick I had to use a saw to cut it, like 2.5" diameter. I took a couple pics, but screwed up the focus, and forgot to take a whole-plant pic, but here is a pic anyway. It is hanging up to dry, the best i can control it at 60% RH, and low 70s temp. Southern summer heat is here, and I am well-stocked with bud, so this will be my final grow until winter. I am totally sold on the EB, and SIPs in general; this was a completely trouble-free, hands off, water-only grow with only a top-dress once or twice. Never had a single insect in the closet, never sprayed the plant ever, no IPM, 100% pure and organic. Very happy with the results, and can't wait to smoke some.
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Hey guys I'm sure there a good how to build a sip planter, I'm having trouble finding one. I want to build a sip for my 4x4 tent. I am completely new to this but one to give it a shot. If anyone can point me in the right direction to a post or video that I should check out that would be awesome ! Thanks in advance
 
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