Re: New City Grower 3.0 - Sponsored by Twilight Group Co. - Featuring the Spider9 COB
Good afternoon B A R. SIP stands for sub irrigation planter. The basic concept is to have a reservoir of water that the plants can wick up from. You don't want your grow pot to be sitting in the water. Various methods used include
- using a poly rope as the wick, into another container set below the grow pot
- using another pot filled with soil that sits in water and sitting your grow pot into the surface if that wicking soil
- creating a bed of wicking material (a use for all that perlite the LOS growers are shying away from) that you set your pots onto, keeping the water level about 1 to 2" below the surface level.
This allows the plants to take up the water they need. There's no overload of water, because any excess will drip through. No more guesswork or over/underwatering. It works best with good soil filled with lots of organic matter. The before and after shots and the expectation of no longer having to be concerned with gnats sold me. By the second week of the new year I'll have mine up and running. Just as my plants get into their real growth spurt. I'm growing in 7 gal Geo Pots, so I'm going with a basin filled with perlite. Reading everything I can find now.
Good afternoon B A R. SIP stands for sub irrigation planter. The basic concept is to have a reservoir of water that the plants can wick up from. You don't want your grow pot to be sitting in the water. Various methods used include
- using a poly rope as the wick, into another container set below the grow pot
- using another pot filled with soil that sits in water and sitting your grow pot into the surface if that wicking soil
- creating a bed of wicking material (a use for all that perlite the LOS growers are shying away from) that you set your pots onto, keeping the water level about 1 to 2" below the surface level.
This allows the plants to take up the water they need. There's no overload of water, because any excess will drip through. No more guesswork or over/underwatering. It works best with good soil filled with lots of organic matter. The before and after shots and the expectation of no longer having to be concerned with gnats sold me. By the second week of the new year I'll have mine up and running. Just as my plants get into their real growth spurt. I'm growing in 7 gal Geo Pots, so I'm going with a basin filled with perlite. Reading everything I can find now.
Just cruisin' through Broke Ass and things look interesting here as always.....
Jason has fixed all my woes and things are on the way to being resolved... Hopefully he used another shipping service but either way he is sending me the whole fuse box and 2 lens to replace the one that was cracked and the one that fell off just in case it hurt it in some way I can't see and he has already got it on the way so the tent got here today and fella is going to make it a little more structurally strong ... it says it will hold 65 lbs and the light is about 45 lbs and I just want more wiggle room than that so he is going to brace it for me somehow so hopefully by the first of the year we will be able to see what the 16 is going to do.... Jason has been more than incredible about taking care of all of this and keeping me from jumping of a building.... The customer service with Twilight is absolutely amazing. Guess we are always going to run into trouble with shipping and what not but when you can count on them to take care of you like Jason has.... well it just makes it easier to sleep at night....
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