cbdhemp808
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Awesome, man! same questions... What kind of soil, and is that synthetic ferts?
SIP Club - Getting Hydro/Coco Results In A Soil Based Medium
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This is Coco, my Chocolate Thai Auto in a 5G SIP in coco feeding Megacrop 1-part.
CannabisMan420
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It started out as regular potting soil, but I've been adding compost to it and maintaining the same soil over the years. All organic, the nutes are Botanicare Pure Blend Pro 1-4-5 and Alaska Fish Fertilizer 5-1-1. I mix them to provide a balanced NPK ratio through all stages of growth currently.
cbdhemp808
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I am attempting the impossible... outdoor 5 gal SIP grows with hybrid LOS/coco soil and organic ferts, no training.
I harvested this girl recently, an indica CBD... here she is 13 days in flower, before low light conditions started to take their toll. It was an OK little harvest considering. Nice colas, tight buds, small amount of isolated bud rot.
Here's some new ones coming along...
I harvested this girl recently, an indica CBD... here she is 13 days in flower, before low light conditions started to take their toll. It was an OK little harvest considering. Nice colas, tight buds, small amount of isolated bud rot.
Here's some new ones coming along...
Update from the veg house today...
Blueberry clone (L), Sweet Critical CBD clone (R), in 5 gal Triforce SIPs. They're doing great and each has a bit of fert-water in the rez. I'll let them dry out some, and then start fertigating via the fill tube only, in hopes that this will reduce the amount of water in the soil. In the middle background is CBD #18 pheno in 1 gal. In the far back, right, are HI-BISCUS clones in 1 gal.
Sweet Critical CBD clone, well fed and doin' fine.
Blueberry clone lookin' good. She's drinking a bit less than the Sweet Critical.
CBD #18 clone. This little indica-dominant plant always impresses me. Here she is still in 1 gal... gonna be up potted to a SIP probably tomorrow.
Chuckeye
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Does anyone have a success story growing clones in a 5 gal SIP bucket? If so, please describe your grow.
Well, you kind of limited your response pool with your filters. I do clones, but in 2 gallon buckets in an organic home made soil mix.
It seems the SIPs keep the soil too wet for a high brix organic grow, at least in my smaller containers, so I'm going to trial a bit of a different set-up in a future round. My plan is to separate the water reservoir from the soil by using a poorly wicking medium in the connector pot using hydroton clay pebbles.
My theory is that the hydroton will provide an easy path for water seeking roots to find the reservoir without wicking much water up into the soil mix. That will hopefully keep the soil at the lower moisture level that the organic microbes need to do their thing while still allowing the plant access to as much water as it wants.
My buckets are smaller (and shorter) than the traditional 5 gallon bucket so my higher perched water table likely exacerbates the "too wet" issue, so I'm not sure how well my issues translate to others' set-ups, but I'm anxious to see how it works.
We don't have a lot of SIP growers trying for high brix organic grows (yet) so we still need to work out the details to see if it's even possible.
Once I'm up and running with the new combination I'll post my results in the event others want to try modifications to the normal combinations.
SIPs seem ideal for those using synthetic nutes, but for organic growers there are other factors in play that influence results that we need to identify and accommodate.
Thirvnrob
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This one brixed at 16 a couple days ago…
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Nice!
Thirvnrob
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Thanks. I’ll check again later this afternoon & at regular intervals throughout the grow. The soil (TLO 2.0) is on its 3rd round & all I’ve given her thus far is dolo water.
Beautiful plants.