Simplicity. Ease. KISS. Yes, to all of these, but let’s not forget the dankest nuggets with that very special glow that only comes from probiotic sip weed. 
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Nice! @CruJones
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So I’ve got everything pretty much sexed and ready to roll. I have one Lemon Wookie V2 that’s taking their sweet ass time revealing gender. This is one of the few areas that even remotely looks like a sex organ. Thoughts?
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Flashbacks to watching scrambled Cinemax hoping a boob would show.
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I agree with what everybody else who’s using them says - SIPs make the organic soil grower’s life much easier and seriously improve the quality and speed of production. And the weed is noticeably better because they’re getting perfect nutrition and watering at all times. Don’t discount this many anecdotes.
None of that shit is necessary and it doesn’t even really help. Get your soil mix right and a big SIP with a shower cap will blow your mind when you get your timing right with transplanting from solos or rooted clones, top watering once, and then starting the bottom watering 10-14 days later.
I haven’t seen such fast, dense growth in any top watering organic scenario, and not even really close. Once you get it right, you won’t want to go back to normal pots - I promise it’s that much of a game changer. It makes things SO easy and simultaneously ideal, while also giving you a watering buffer throughout the lifecycle. All you have to do is maybe topdress some dry amendments and EWC and compost at flip with a tiny bit of top watering at that time. Nothing else.
P.S. @CrunchBerries too early to tell. Needs another week or two to be definitive to me.
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They are the real deal. Keep it simple and they will take care of themselves.
I still have two plants to chop too.
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I have to agree with @nube . I’ve done garden beds with Blumats, fabric pots , drip line in fabric pots. Sip’s are elite.
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I’m definitely not doing that. Like I’ve said before, I’d already be checking them out if it was doable in my situation, but since I only have access to the front of the tent and not the sides, I think watering would be pretty dang difficult, if not impossible. I guess I could probably put two or three in the back of the tent and fill the res when I remove the potted plants to water. Maybe I’ll do that…
I wasn’t talking about SIPs specifically when I said the thing about hydro. I just meant in general, constantly adding stuff to the water/soil is verging closely into “hydro territory” haha. Not saying those things don’t help, either, but it seems (to me) to kind of defeat the purpose of growing organically for people like me.
You know, lazy people haha.
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Haha! Yea bud, that’s awesome! Pretty handy for cloning in tight spaces
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I am really intrigued with SIPs but seems like you need to sex the plants way earlier than normal with either sending in leaf tissue samples or by using clones. When I am transplanting into my 4x4 bed after sexing the plants, they are usually in their 4th-5th week or so and the plants are in 2.5 gallon containers. Probably too big to transplant into a typical Earthbox or CityPicker and would most likely need to make a DIY SIP container.
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I’ve put a 2.5 gal pot in my sips before. You’ll be good.
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Alright, good to know. I have 4 Earthboxes that are collecting dust and didn’t think they could handle a rootball of that depth. Will have to experiment with them at some point.
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I wouldn’t say they are too big. You would want to flip as soon as they get comfortable and show signs of growth though. Maybe if you had severe height limitations, but most times when running from seed, plants are larger cause I had to wait for sexing the old fashion way.
Stick around! Im waiting on sex of some Lemon Wookie V2 then it’s on! Plants are currently 18-24 inches and have been topped once. Can’t wait to get planting.
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Sounds good, I’ll be watching! Will you be running only one plant per box or can you fit two while growing from seed the way you are?
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This is such an understatement…
Been growing in organics for a bit. As a test I built a SIP and threw one of the cultivars (clone) in to see what would happen. No worms or anything just soil… Holy shart is all I can say… All I did is slap a clone in the SIP and H²O only down the pipe. The growth was phenomenal for such little effort…
You can see there is no cover on the tops of the SIP. No worms just soil and well H²O…
Since then, I have been building or buying as many SIP’s as funds permit…
I couldn’t agree more with 
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I am a lazy gardener. Once a SIP is set up, soil, worms and all, You should be able to just water when the res is dry and you will get a really decent grow… You will have to feed the worms though. You can feed them so many things that you probably have in your kitchen and would normally throw away or compost. I know that may sound like a bit of work but it really is not. How many times do you have a banana or two that are getting a little old in the kitchen? Just slap that banana in the SIP and watch it disappear.
What do you do with the defoliated leaves from your plants? You can slap those in your SIP also. Water melon, cantaloupe rind… Used Coffee grounds, Eggs shells… I could go on for days with examples…
If you notice any deficiencies in your plants you can still add nutes via top watering. If you want to save 
all you need to do is Figure out what you need and make a worm smoothie and the worms will take care of the rest. If you want to get the organic material broken down even faster slap some grokashi or similar and your plants will get their nutes even quicker.
This is one of the reasons I make my own SIP’s. I build them my way so that I can water them even in a crowded tent. I did end up making a PVC extension with a coupler to fit over the fill tube. I can get to any plant in the grow with it…
If you wanted you could even figure out how to have an automated watering system for your SIP and then all you would have to do is watch your plants grow.
SIP’s let me spend way less time worrying about growing a plant and allow me more time to just look and learn what my plants are doing and or may need. I often end up taking a few tokes and just watching my plants. Of course, this leads me to do more work like trimming, LST’ing and what not… But… You can just look at them and not do a dang thing if you don’t want to…
So much more to say about the power of the SIP 
@minitiger If you were near me I would make one for ya!
This can be an issue but I keep my plants in a one gallon or smaller until sexting… (not the phone sexting, The plant sexting 
) I have dropped large potted plants into SIPs in the past but have found the smaller the soil volume you transplant into the SIP the faster the Power of the SIP will happen…
Yes… the power of the sip is a real thing… When the power of the SIP kicks in the plants will just take off. Nature is a beautiful thing… 
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I don’t defoliate haha. For real, I top once and that’s it. I was thinking I might defoliate this round, but who knows if I actually will? I really don’t like fucking with my plants at all, except for a one-time topping. When leaves start getting pull-off-able, though, I do, uh, pull them off and just throw them on top of the mulch layer.
Yeah, so it basically becomes a worm farm, right? That’s cool.
Haha, thanks, dude! I may check them out at some point, I dunno. I just reeeealllllyyyyy like being able to move my plants around, in and outta the tent, where I can examine them closely. Especially because I’ve been having issues with bugs and the occasional herm, it makes me uncomfortable to not be able to get a good close look at them on a table at head-height.
And I just like the way I grow haha. I’m fine with the way I grow. But, like I said, I may check them out at some point.
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Don’t be afraid to do root pruning before putting it in the earthbox. I just took a saw to my veg tent. Anything that was in a 1 gal and needed to be repotted, got 50% of the soil chopped off and put back in the same pot on top of new soil. I usually do a little defoliation too.
So if you sex things in 2.5 gal, when it’s ready to go in the earthbox, chop half the roots off. It’ll be fine and the EB will let it thrive
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I think you could pull it off with keeping the plants in pretty small containers while sexing them and then once you put them in SIPs with all that space they’ll explode. I usually keep everything in 1/2 or 1 gallon pots until they’re sexed and that’d leave plenty of room to plant in SIPs. Though, I have been running mostly clones in mine, I’m curious to see what a plant with a taproot will do in SIPs… my feminized seeds in SIPs are doing great so far.
You could do what nube does, and put all the watering tubes facing the middle of the tent and have a funnel or PVC pipe setup so that it’s easy to water from a central location. All the pipes are right there and just move a PVC pipe from one to another and dump your measured water in. Once you get the watering pattern down, the growth is really really impressive, and my plants are more healthy than they’ve ever been.
@CrunchBerries The Lemon Wookie V2 looks like a boy to me, but I hope I’m wrong 
I’ve got a pack of those in the fridge, so I’m stoked to see how they turn out for you.
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