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TintEastwood

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This.


No SIP experience. This is experimental for me. I can always revert to top feed if the S hits the fan with this micro Octo sippy sip setup. Lol
 

myke

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This.


No SIP experience. This is experimental for me. I can always revert to top feed if the S hits the fan with this micro Octo sippy sip setup. Lol
IS the plan to feed in the rez?Or top feed with no runoff?
 

myke

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Yes. Will use the res.

Top feed is only my backup plan.
Ok so one flaw,if the rez goes dry with synthetic nutes in it you end up with a salt bath.I may be wrong but SIPS are designed to have water roots (rez) feeder roots (soil).
If you fed salts from the top lightly with no runoff and fed straight water to the rez it would work but really more work then needed.
From what I understand Sips are really designed for organic soil.
Just thinking out loud.
 

TintEastwood

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Ok so one flaw,if the rez goes dry with synthetic nutes in it you end up with a salt bath.I may be wrong but SIPS are designed to have water roots (rez) feeder roots (soil).
If you fed salts from the top lightly with no runoff and fed straight water to the rez it would work but really more work then needed.
From what I understand Sips are really designed for organic soil.
Just thinking out loud.
Check out the Octopot site.
 

myke

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How do I feed my plant in the Octopot Grow System?


1. Starting with a high quality growing media charged with fertilizer gives cuttings, seeds, and clones a great start in the Octopot Grow System. If no fertilizer is present in your growing media, simply add a small amount to the soil at time of planting.
2. After planting, simply add water soluble nutrients and fertilizers (conventional or organic) to the water in the Hydro Reservoir. Feeding roots directly inside the Hydro Reservoir is the most productive way to grow with Octopot Grow Systems.
3. Octopot Grow Systems are closed systems that waste nothing from washout, therefore require less fertilizer. You may be able to reduce fertilizer amounts by 50% of manufacturers’ recommendations. Octopot Grow Systems are hybrids so the pH ranges of hydroponic growing methods are typically more acidic than what is best for Octopot’s hybrid system. Nutrient levels should be less than levels normally used in standard hydroponic growing systems. To avoid root burn from over application test nutrient levels with a meter, a general range is 600-800 ppm


This goes against everything Ive read on sips,I see they talk about flushing the rez in another area when things go bad.
Very cool if this works.
 

TintEastwood

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How do I feed my plant in the Octopot Grow System?


1. Starting with a high quality growing media charged with fertilizer gives cuttings, seeds, and clones a great start in the Octopot Grow System. If no fertilizer is present in your growing media, simply add a small amount to the soil at time of planting.
2. After planting, simply add water soluble nutrients and fertilizers (conventional or organic) to the water in the Hydro Reservoir. Feeding roots directly inside the Hydro Reservoir is the most productive way to grow with Octopot Grow Systems.
3. Octopot Grow Systems are closed systems that waste nothing from washout, therefore require less fertilizer. You may be able to reduce fertilizer amounts by 50% of manufacturers’ recommendations. Octopot Grow Systems are hybrids so the pH ranges of hydroponic growing methods are typically more acidic than what is best for Octopot’s hybrid system. Nutrient levels should be less than levels normally used in standard hydroponic growing systems. To avoid root burn from over application test nutrient levels with a meter, a general range is 600-800 ppm


This goes against everything Ive read on sips,I see they talk about flushing the rez in another area when things go bad.
Very cool if this works.
Experimental. That's why you won't see me on the SIP thread.

Working example....Not my grow
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TintEastwood

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I know somewhere on this site people have had success with feeding salts to a sip.I just cant find it.
Found this.

I know others using Octopots successfully.
 

myke

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Found this.

I know others using Octopots successfully.
Well their yea go,amazing.Here all along I thought it was forboden to use salts in a sip rez.May have to try it.Cheers.
 

myke

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Curious to why the change? You obviously know coco,why not just an automated feed system and go fishing?
 

myke

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Curious to why the change? You obviously know coco,why not just an automated feed system and go fishing?
Whoops you already have that,so many journals hard to keep track lol. Still, you seam to have it dialed in.Why change? Just curious.
 

TintEastwood

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Whoops you already have that,so many journals hard to keep track lol. Still, you seam to have it dialed in.Why change? Just curious.
Just wanted to try something different, yet similar in many ways. Still coco and same nutes.

I like the dual root zone concept. Each plant is able to feed consistently and continuously as needed.

Should be fun.

(I have never grown in soil.)
 
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