SIP Club - Getting Hydro/Coco Results In A Soil Based Medium

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Azimuth said:
And how do you use the castings, simply mix them into your mix or do you topdress, and if so, how often?
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I am in the hospital bored stiff so am posting like a fiend, ā€˜if this seems more frequent than usual.

Not sure I ever answered this directly, Avi, so here ya go.

Rez-Dog Super Castings Method - (so far so good, but Iā€™ll inform random readers that my Worms are given a specially designed experimental diet - basically everything youā€™d put in a decent supersoil using your local resources first-most, and complete with respect to Cannabis needs)

Mixed And Ammended:
For my outdoor veggie SIPS and indoor canna-SIPs, I mix 1 part peat moss (CSPM) 1 part Perlite and 1 part Super-Castings. Thatā€™s my ā€œsoilā€ and you can germ or plant seedlings straight into it.

In a month I slap on a 1 inch (not packed just drizzled. Lol) new top layer of castings around the plant covering all the soil and continue monthly, as a rule.

But, a week before and all during bud set (three weeks, indicas) I amend the same way, but now weekly, and give worm-tea drenches every other day during budset. I give 1 quart/litre tea at a time for each 10-gal softpots/plant in the SIP. Careful not to leach into rez because can putrify. Use measured amounts.

Is all this necessary? I have no idea, I just know it gets me through to harvest on indicas so far, and the final results are excellent. Iā€™m sure you can reduce in lots of places, but iterative-type development on a plant-lifetime scale is damned slow, so I dunno the particulars yet.

PS the Best way, for me, to mix the ā€œsoil matrixā€ is to buy a bale of Promix/sunshine mix #4 (I prefer the ssm4 due to its larger perlite) and some extra perlite. Add extra perlite until volume is 50/50 w/peat (Promix etc comes w/30% Perlite). Then add an amount of castings thatā€™s roughly half of your finished peat/perlite pile. Then youā€™ll have 3 equal parts Peat, Perlite, Castings. You want the buffering treatment the companies use to make their mixes, so if you by ā€œrawā€ peat youā€™ll need to figure that yourself. Unless your experienced donā€™t bother, you want what they got.

Then you can water with whatever comes out of the tap, and pH wonā€™t up and crater one day. I recommend treating chlorine treated tapwater with vitamin c powder or potassium metabisulphate (winemaking store or online, both cheap) before adding to SIP, to support the important microbes in the castings.
RedskinnedRhino said:
(PS - Grandpa was 100% correct about the sub zero Temps and fast wash. Don't leave the alcohol in the flower for too long, and keep it cold!
Chlorophyll seems to cause tummy aches and paranoia, you want as little of that shit as possible. Better to lose some trichs to attrition, than to gain wax and chlorophyll while trying to recover every micro gram of thc.)
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I agree, Grandpa knows. Had same experience with the 9 different batches of vape sauce, you got to run low temp, high speed. I think I homed-in on 180f for 30 mins. of just sitting, for my sauce, not RSO but principle applies. No doubt the cannabinoid combo changes with time, but if ya wanna flyā€¦ 180f/30min in double boiler or instapot on slow-cook
 
And thus was born the benevolent gatekeeping guardianship we know today as, ā€œGRD Protection Racket, LLCā€

My daughter told me this is my superhero origin story. Howā€™mā€™I gonna break it to her itā€™s a supervillain origin story?

Mmmm, youā€™re right. Yesā€¦ yes! A supervillain would protect his secrets jealously, waiting to pounce on the unsuspecting...

Got it, ā€œchillinā€™ like a villainā€ā€™.

Edit: This was funnier.
 
Fenderbender said:
SIPS are like cruise control... you dial in the speed and they keep it there..


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Fenderbender, your comparison is spot on! I'm just getting started with SIPs and loving the ease so far. By the way, that plant pic you shared looked fantastic. Keep rockin' it! šŸ‘
RedskinnedRhino said:
RSO is strong as hell, and the creeping feeling of buzz working its way out of your stomach can be uncomfortable to people who haven't dabbled in strong euphorics. I use a beef gelatin capsule that dissolves in an alkaline environment instead of acidic, like the scene in your intestines rather than your stomach.
My mom didn't like the creeping buzz so she left the capsules whole and it alleviated the feeling.
I enjoy the warm glow of a wandering stonededness crawling thru my capillaries, so I open the capsule and swallow both sides, letting the RSO do as it will.

(PS - Grandpa was 100% correct about the sub zero Temps and fast wash. Don't leave the alcohol in the flower for too long, and keep it cold!
Chlorophyll seems to cause tummy aches and paranoia, you want as little of that shit as possible. Better to lose some trichs to attrition, than to gain wax and chlorophyll while trying to recover every micro gram of thc.)
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Hey RedskinnedRhino, super insightful info on the RSO and its effects. I've been considering diving into it and your experience is super valuable. Cheers for sharing!
 
One of the bad things about F1 beans, you just never know what kind of freak you're going to end up with.
I made the decision this morning to RIP "rest in peace" this one and move on. I don't mind growing F1's it's actually nice not knowing what to expect, but I really want to know what the SIP will do for me.
I put a Dosi Zookies auto in for a soak so I have something more stable to work with.
When the plan changes, change the plan I guess.
I'll get back to it when I have something to look at..
Let's see what happens šŸ’š

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