I think you could totally build a SIP with a cloth pot. It would need a support frame to keep the fabric pot from crushing the wicking footer pot but that should be quite doable.I’ve been following this without comment but @Azimuth, I have a question. Based on everything I’ve read in this thread, it seems the downside to the SIP thing is exactly that you are confined to plastic pots. It won’t work with cloth correct? So it seems much of this is connected to even drying, and plastic is the last thing to provide that - top down as you note? Am I way off and if so I’ll slink back under my rock?
I have some 2 gallon cloth pots that I might experiment with like that in the future.