Nice I’ll check it out as well. Looks right up my alley
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Feel free to update on the SIP thread. I encourage community involvement and learning. Can’t learn in a vacuum!!
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thanks alot im sorry if i invited my self but i was pointed towards your thread as a general sip thread
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My hope when starting the thread, was that everyone would share, so we could have a central spot for all things SIP.
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if i get a chance ill try to setup my aqua valve in my flood table and figur out a new system for my futur grows
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This is making me want to go ahead and mess with some DIY SIPs, I have my first autoflower ever as a little seedling now in an old five gallon Dirt Pot fabric pot, and I was looking at it going “that would fit into a 5g bucket I think, what if I slit the bottom open in an X and plonked it on top of a dirt or perlite wick?”. I think I might just go ahead and do it to see how those whole thing goes! I’ve been bottom watering my veg tent this time around and I’m not going back now that I veg in fabric transplanters, the growth and health is so good!
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perlite wicks really well
that should work you just gave me an other idea
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I don’t think cutting the fabric pot is even necessary tbh
Thanks for your synthetic summary, clear enough to be refreshed fast in the discussion ^^ I got the concept.
Well, i’m more interested than just curiosity now. It can be a great upgrade to my penny-cost system for SOG from seeds : HERE
It’s planned for this year, the time to make enough seeds for it. I like the idea to upgrade it with this concept that i’m just discovering right now (^^ no one’s perfect), but in staying cheap and productive (one shot use). Any idea very welcome.
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Each tub cost me around $18 (ish) that was without me trying to save money. That includes the price of all components. I probably could have made something very similar with junk lying around my house. Last year i made em with with home depot buckets.
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I just took a look at your thread… man you weren’t kidding. You over there using soda bottles… what a space saver too!
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your setup…
Super Simple and the price is super low for what those bad boys are going to be producing…
Yes, for the wick to work properly the net cup would have to touch the bottom of the reservoir.
I can tell you that I have built a few SIP’s and many of them have net cups or similar in them as they are inexpensive and effective.
However, I have been using Perforated Drain Pipe (PDP) like you have in your buckets.
For the ease of DIY and $ I will be staying with PDP.
Hell yes they do… 
There should be so many dang roots when the system is running properly that you will see roots when you look down the fill tube.
I have had plants in flower power through water like nothing else I have seen.
Another benefit of SIP’s are that if the Res runs dry the plant will not suffer. The Sip’s are wet enough to go a bit without water. Of course size of the SIP will depend on how long they can run dry for…
All I got’s to say is once you go SIP you will not go back.
Only problem is getting enough SIP’s set up for the entire grow/grows
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You got the idea now ^^ It’s not so about the money but about maxed density. Initially it was to lower maintenance for high density/fast turn-over selections from seeds, i’m now using it sometimes as “express filling for jars”. The concept only work if the plant don’t stay long inside, around 2 months top.
It’s too sexy to don’t mix that with the concept i’m just discovering lol
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i have to agree to a certain degree i would of never had disturbed my perlite bed if it wasnt for the isdues it was involving perlite dust would clog the auquavalve shut ot full flood but having plants growing in sip they grow just perfectly is just a bummer i didnt have time to resolve my issues before being disabled now this setup is not in my current plan as i canot deal with its maintenance
but sip pots could be something i can desl with in the right setup
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I have watched the float on the two I have side by side. I had to raise one so the canopies would be equal. When I did, the level of nutrient/water dropped a lot faster.
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Hey Dirt, I would check the link farm on my thread for some useful diy tutorials. The RIU SIP thread, https://albopepper.com/, and @Maddawg ‘s tutorial are some good starting places.
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I went to the basement and checked and a 5G Dirt Pot brand, which is 11” in diameter, fits perfectly into my 5G buckets.
So all I need is a bag of perlite to make the wicking bed, fill the thing up, drill a water hole a few inches below the top of the perlite bed, and plunk the pot in and I’m in action! Going to try this if it’s that damn cheap, I’m having fun experimenting a little and everyone says autoflowers like a steady water and nute regimen for best results. The dirt it’s in is pretty rich even if it was used once, and it is peat and coco based, so I’ll probably scratch in some fertilizer now into the top few inches before the seedling roots out, and just do a probiotic bottom feed no bites. In the future if this works I’ll probably grab some of these tall 7G pots to stretch out the soil water tables a few more inches, this is the place I get my pots from now, good stuff:
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you wont get much root pruning from air gap since perlite will act as an hydroponic medium
its constantly moist as its wicking
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Maybe I should put a few flat 2” thick rocks between the perlite and pot bottom? I want to cut a few 2” Xs in the bottom of the pot so roots can dangle through more easily, though I know they’ll grow right through