ttystikk
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No worries, there's a lot to keep straight.
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GroErr
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Yeah, have some concerns with that but easy enough to manage with a little H2O2 if needed. Once they're built I can play around with wick materials. My concern with using soil is sediment going through into the res and causing issues, how are you finding that, do you have some sort of screening to avoid soil seeping into the res?I would caution though against the rockwool remember how easy wet rock wool can develop algae.
For my wick I just used the same soil as what's in the bucket and I have had zero issues, the plants are drinking and growing plenty.
Evil-Mobo
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Yes there is lol.....somehow my plants are still growing and green lol.....
ttystikk
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From others I've seen running SIPS, I'd say it's not a problem unless so much soil falls through that it fills up the res space.
Evil-Mobo
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I used a red solo cup and carefully drilled holes around in vertical strips. I filled it with soil and watered then set that in the bottom with the res full. The bottom of the top bucket has holes all over to allow O2 to come up as well. Then I just filled the bucket with soil and transplanted my plants. I have had zero issues with wicking, or any dirty water, and my sight tubes are crystal clear. My setup bubbles the water via the sight tube, my resi bucket is one of my root spa buckets from my previous DWC setup. I have two going and will soon be transplanting an auto into a third. Thus far very pleased with my results. Monday is a week of SIP's, and Wed a week of COB LED's, my Sativa has more than doubled in height in this week despite me topping it once lol. And this is with running the Tasty LED on veg mode only not full blast.
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GroErr
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That's doable, not sure if that would go that far up but same principle. Traditional wick systems can be as simple as a cotton cloth draped over something to sit the plants on and the ends going into a water tray on either side of the plant stand. There was a thread about a year ago, guy did a bunch of 1gal plants in SOG that way.
GroErr
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I was thinking of laying some door screening on top of the netpot lid and setting the pots on that, just to capture any big clumps from getting through. I was thinking of using just my on-hand pro-mix as well for the wick material, not a lot different than coco.
hyroot
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One of my sips I left the wicking pot covered. With weed mat. The others I didn't. The one that was covered didn't wick enough water. My wicking pot for the 18 gals . Is a 7 inch heavy duty square net pot filled with coco packed tight.
hyroot
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You also want holes in the bottom of the pot or tote. So oxygen can get to the roots. There's a 1 inch gap between the water level and the top pot when the resi is full. With the air stone it's releasing oxygen up to the bottom roots.
I laid weed mat down and cut a hole for the wicking pot. I just don't have pics of that. This was from my first sip build in January
My 5 gal
I use an 18 oz party cup with some holes in it and with coco in the cup. That's also a wide 5 gal nursery pot in a home depot bucket.
I want to try fabric pots top of the home depot buckets with a longer wicking pots. With my 18 gals. I'm trying 2 plants per sip next round.
There's so may ways you can build them. . You can even just put a colander upside down in a pot. Run the pvc to the bottom. The soil will wick water from the sides.
There's earth boxes and city pickers too.
I laid weed mat down and cut a hole for the wicking pot. I just don't have pics of that. This was from my first sip build in January
My 5 gal
I use an 18 oz party cup with some holes in it and with coco in the cup. That's also a wide 5 gal nursery pot in a home depot bucket.
I want to try fabric pots top of the home depot buckets with a longer wicking pots. With my 18 gals. I'm trying 2 plants per sip next round.
There's so may ways you can build them. . You can even just put a colander upside down in a pot. Run the pvc to the bottom. The soil will wick water from the sides.
There's earth boxes and city pickers too.
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GroErr
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Nice build, thanks for the pics, I'll be trying a single res first go so the holes won't apply but I'm thinking of popping some small holes in the bottom of the fabric pots to assist with wicking and allow the roots to reach down if needed. Going to try it without an air stone first but that can easily be added later.
You're right about designs, there are so many and all will work, just a matter of finding one that does the job and is easy to work with/maintain. I'm just going to try and stick to standard and readily available parts so if I find one I like I can replicate it easily.
GroErr
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Next round coming up in veg, there's 4x Blue Ripper F2 clones on the left and 1x Harlequin right-back corner. Pic was taken just after up-potting them from 1gal's to 3gal's. If timing works, will try a couple in some form of SIP container. They were getting constrained in the 1gal's so they should explode in a few days. They've had just some cropping to shape them, will FIM in a couple of days then they'll have about 2 weeks to settle in.
The 2x Blue Ripper keepers are at the front, BR2-3 and BR2-5 from the pheno hunt I finished a couple of weeks ago. Will run the other 2 this round but likely it as I only have room for the best. BR1-4 and BR2-4 are quite good and BR1-4 (“JTR” pheno) is a good producer but it’s very close in taste to the JTR I have so don’t need it. If I wanted or needed a more sativa-leaning pheno that could have been a keeper. BR2-4 is good but not as good as BR2-3 or BR2-5 and ran 10 weeks so this will be it’s last run. It's a real toss up between BR2-3 and BR2-5, they're almost identical in structure, smell, and taste. Both are fire, strong fruit and hashy smells/taste. BR2-5 is a killer energetic head stone and BR2-3 is similar but couch also locks you with a heavy body stone. I’ll be trying to find an F2 male soon and cross both of these up to F3’s.
For 2 rounds out, have a run of Breeder’s Boutique strains. Looking to see if I can find a killer Fireballs and DOG pheno. 2x 1gal Fireballs at the back, right-hand corner pheno has a strong skunky stem rub and nice structure, looking like a contender if it’s a fem. Out of the other 3x DOG’s, there are 2 that are smelling good and nice structures so far. If I end up with one good fem of each I’ll be happy.
The flower room is at Day 43 and Day 14. Definitely less stretch in the current negative DIF environment and under the COBs for the younger 3x 5gal’s. Vertical stretch has been lower but they’re expanding outwards and filling that end of the room. COBs are ~18” above the canopy and buds are settting in at 2 weeks, so far, so good.
3gal plants are doing Ok, JTR and BR2 were strong coming in and holding to that, the other 2 are just fillers and doing Ok. Not seeing any huge benefits from keeping the temps up during lights out but nothing detrimental either other than it seems to have affected the stretch. 2 weeks or so left, BR2 typically runs ~60 days and the rest are ~54-56.
And some week 6 bud porn...
JTR:
Blue Ripper 2 (indi-dom F1 pheno):
Cheers
The 2x Blue Ripper keepers are at the front, BR2-3 and BR2-5 from the pheno hunt I finished a couple of weeks ago. Will run the other 2 this round but likely it as I only have room for the best. BR1-4 and BR2-4 are quite good and BR1-4 (“JTR” pheno) is a good producer but it’s very close in taste to the JTR I have so don’t need it. If I wanted or needed a more sativa-leaning pheno that could have been a keeper. BR2-4 is good but not as good as BR2-3 or BR2-5 and ran 10 weeks so this will be it’s last run. It's a real toss up between BR2-3 and BR2-5, they're almost identical in structure, smell, and taste. Both are fire, strong fruit and hashy smells/taste. BR2-5 is a killer energetic head stone and BR2-3 is similar but couch also locks you with a heavy body stone. I’ll be trying to find an F2 male soon and cross both of these up to F3’s.
For 2 rounds out, have a run of Breeder’s Boutique strains. Looking to see if I can find a killer Fireballs and DOG pheno. 2x 1gal Fireballs at the back, right-hand corner pheno has a strong skunky stem rub and nice structure, looking like a contender if it’s a fem. Out of the other 3x DOG’s, there are 2 that are smelling good and nice structures so far. If I end up with one good fem of each I’ll be happy.
The flower room is at Day 43 and Day 14. Definitely less stretch in the current negative DIF environment and under the COBs for the younger 3x 5gal’s. Vertical stretch has been lower but they’re expanding outwards and filling that end of the room. COBs are ~18” above the canopy and buds are settting in at 2 weeks, so far, so good.
3gal plants are doing Ok, JTR and BR2 were strong coming in and holding to that, the other 2 are just fillers and doing Ok. Not seeing any huge benefits from keeping the temps up during lights out but nothing detrimental either other than it seems to have affected the stretch. 2 weeks or so left, BR2 typically runs ~60 days and the rest are ~54-56.
And some week 6 bud porn...
JTR:
Blue Ripper 2 (indi-dom F1 pheno):
Cheers
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GroErr
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Small batch of Harlequin x Blue Ripper 60mg pills for me during the week and 50x 90mg for my friend's brother dealing with lung cancer. He handled the 70mg at 3x per day so bumping him up to 90's, if he can handle these will bump the next batch to 120's. Would like to get him to 500mg/day in a few weeks and see if we can kill that shit. Said they really helped taking his mind off the pain and just feeling relaxed all day, lots of appetite so he's eating well and gaining some weight.
Cheers
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GroErr
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Had forgotten about that Blue Dream cross, a couple of footballs coming in thereNice!!
Evil-Mobo
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Yeah brother looks insane!Had forgotten about that Blue Dream cross, a couple of footballs coming in there
