yes covering the top soil with a lid or plastic is actually preferable in most cases, it keeps the top layers moist instead of allowig them to dry out too much,, most everything i have read says its not good to top water a sip because it dissrupts the wicking cycle, but part of me feels a little bit cant hurt to bad?,, i know on the octopot sip web page they actually do add nutes to thier res and so did another grower on rollitup who used the octopots his name is captian morgan ,, i believe,, but they dont use salts type nutes its organics of some sort,, i never paid to much attention to it because i mix everything in my soil at te start of the grow and do water only the whole ride,, maybe some of the other people following this thread have more usuful information bout the teas and nutes,, @Humanrob might also have some ideas?,
Not a curled leaf in sight.Looks great!
thanks some leaves on the front curl down, but its because the doors squash them down when i close them,,this is the best healthy grow i have ever done,, i am really liking the soil mix i put together at the start
So there is someone poring tea on top,Any tips.I was wondering about top dressing.thx
Yeah, you can definitely top dress earth boxes!
From what I understand is just dont get runoff correct? Thanks.
let us know how it goes,, always up for something new
I’ve already been seeing people have great results with top dressing their earthboxes!
in this thread? or a differant thread,,, i dont recall seeing any here,, and if a person is not top watering, , how would those top dressings get broken down and filtered into the lower soil>? mostly because watering from the top on an earthbox disrupts the wicking action and floods the soil
The advantage of earth boxes is their ability to hold clean water in the reservoir on the bottom so the roots always have access to clean water this is what allows for top dressing. You will get little feeder routes that will come all the way up to the top of the soil because you have a cover on the earth box. These feeder roots Will have access to the top dressing when they need it. This is why it is also hard to overdo top dressing with a Earth boxes because your plants always have access to pure clean water so they can self regulate themselves easier. *You do not have to water top dressing from the top in earthboxes*
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Watching this now... our wicking system seems to emulate part of this... but, he talks a ton about the fact that most growers are missing the sand silt and clay that has a lot of beneficial organisms in it... I wonder how we could emulate that in a sip..... could the wick by constructed from a mixture of say... pit or peat moss, sand silt and clay? I wonder....what do you all think?
