Bottom Wicking Organics

[jelly0]

Hey everyone I've recently become obsessed with organic gardening. I've learned a lot these past few weeks about soil building and our micro buddies, it was initially overwhelming but a lot easier than I thought it would be. I started out big with a 20 gallon no till grow in a 2x4 tent which is currently doing great. Now I'm going to try my luck with a bottom wicking grow. I'm going to start with photos but eventually will be doing autos if this works out.

I'll be growing five photos in a 4x4 using three gallon fabric pots and autocobs. This is mostly to test my cloning abilities and to be the start of my collection of bonsai mothers.

The plan is to have the plants on a tray with lava rocks in it filled with water. They'll also probably be top watered with teas/coconut water/aloe vera water and top dressed with malted barley powder throughout the grow.

We got two seedlings:

- Super Lemon Haze by Greenhouse Seed Co.(I had two seeds but one didn't make it. I really hope I get that sweet lemon sativa pheno!)
-Victory Cookies by Victory Pharms (this is a bagseed from an eighth my friend got from a dispensary. Thanks @Dubious143)

The seeds sprouted on Sunday and were put in solo cups today.

And three clones:

-SFV OG (I'm from the SFV... the smoke of my youth I'm excited to have this cut!)
-Sunset Sherbert
-Cherry Pie

I feel blessed having easy access to these clone only strains. I got these clones on the weekend and I just topped them today... I'm trying to slow down their growth so that the seedlings will catch up, I'll probably do a shitty transplant to their final pot or something too lol.

I'm planning on making my soil in a few days and transplanting the clones on the weekend, or I'll let em get rootbound to slow them down even more. The exact soil recipe is from another forum, you can Google "no till gardening revisited" to find the recipe and maybe get more ideas there. All credit to that post for inspiring me to take the organic plunge!

Happy growing folks

 

[dankstyle J]

Good luck on yo u r grow some nice strains an organics to boot .

 

[Jraven]

Welcome to the organic world sounds like a good plan. Should be fun, keep us posted!

 

[Raoul Duke]

I like forward to watching this!

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[jelly0]

Good luck on yo u r grow some nice strains an organics to boot .

Welcome to the organic world sounds like a good plan. Should be fun, keep us posted!

Thanks! Yes I think I've find a home in the organic way. No need to constantly make gallon jugs of nutes, no need to pH, recycling the soil, plus better terpene profiles! Throwing in the bottom wicking method adds an extra layer of laziness too, just my kinda style!

I like forward to watching this!

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Thanks again Raoul, I always appreciate you stopping by my threads bro

 

[hecno]

Welcome to AFN . Very interesting stuff mate , I'll be aboard for the long haul .

 

[Dubious143]

We in there!

 

[jelly0]

Welcome to AFN . Very interesting stuff mate , I'll be aboard for the long haul . [emoji106]

Thanks a lot! Out of all the cannabis forums the vibes here are definitely the best.

We in there!

Oooh yeaaaaa!

 

[bklyndiaz]

Hey everyone I've recently become obsessed with organic gardening. I've learned a lot these past few weeks about soil building and our micro buddies, it was initially overwhelming but a lot easier than I thought it would be. I started out big with a 20 gallon no till grow in a 2x4 tent which is currently doing great. Now I'm going to try my luck with a bottom wicking grow. I'm going to start with photos but eventually will be doing autos if this works out.

I'll be growing five photos in a 4x4 using three gallon fabric pots and autocobs. This is mostly to test my cloning abilities and to be the start of my collection of bonsai mothers.

The plan is to have the plants on a tray with lava rocks in it filled with water. They'll also probably be top watered with teas/coconut water/aloe vera water and top dressed with malted barley powder throughout the grow.

We got two seedlings:

- Super Lemon Haze by Greenhouse Seed Co.(I had two seeds but one didn't make it. I really hope I get that sweet lemon sativa pheno!)
-Victory Cookies by Victory Pharms (this is a bagseed from an eighth my friend got from a dispensary. Thanks @Dubious143)

The seeds sprouted on Sunday and were put in solo cups today.

And three clones:

-SFV OG (I'm from the SFV... the smoke of my youth I'm excited to have this cut!)
-Sunset Sherbert
-Cherry Pie

I feel blessed having easy access to these clone only strains. I got these clones on the weekend and I just topped them today... I'm trying to slow down their growth so that the seedlings will catch up, I'll probably do a shitty transplant to their final pot or something too lol.

I'm planning on making my soil in a few days and transplanting the clones on the weekend, or I'll let em get rootbound to slow them down even more. The exact soil recipe is from another forum, you can Google "no till gardening revisited" to find the recipe and maybe get more ideas there. All credit to that post for inspiring me to take the organic plunge!

Happy growing folks

Hi jelly0, welcome, I been trying to grow this same method for a few tries, some kind of successful and some not, I believe my problem is i get "Waterlogged"
Anyways, what I think I'm doing is SIP (self irritation planter?) Is there a difference between Sip and Wick or one in the same?
Again, Welcome and I will be pulling up a chair for this one, Good Luck!

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[jelly0]

Hi jelly0, welcome, I been trying to grow this same method for a few tries, some kind of successful and some not, I believe my problem is i get "Waterlogged"
Anyways, what I think I'm doing is SIP (self irritation planter?) Is there a difference between Sip and Wick or one in the same?
Again, Welcome and I will be pulling up a chair for this one, Good Luck!

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Hey thanks for stopping by! Yeah this is a very similar style to SIPs, both are a bottom watering style. The major difference I see is that SIPs usually use plastic pots to keep the water in. I'm going to have fabric pots in a tray full of water and stones. Hmm are you using a DIY SIP system? I think I am going to hand water them first until their root zones are well established, how did you water them at the start?