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.