Yep I will take a hose up .
i fell about 80ft from a big pine tree when I was about 11 bounced off every branch on the way down and knocked myself out when I hit the ground .
Thanks
it will be interesting to see how she goes
Hose would be a give away thenI’ve heard of this before but really cool to see it implemented, great work Absorber!!
think I’d leave the garden hose strapped in place and inserted into the reservoir fill pipe
My res went septic in my first grow. Pooey!do you have ring around the collar? Finally an update on my 2nd SWICK plant
this post is mostly about really skanky, stagnated, shite smelling feed water plus using liquid fish during flower in a SWICK.
This is RQS Cheese, she was hatched from seed back on March 13th, she spent weeks on standby / slow veg under low lights while my Wedding Cakes girls flowered. Purchased local soil blend and added 40% rice hulls, Leonardite & kelp @ 5 to 2 ration, 2 gallons coco, Neem seed meal, Azomite rock dust, Down to Earth 5-4-2, Geoflora organic dry mix veg, bokashi, dynamyco and great white
For feed water I’m using my Dr Bronners Gold Gray Peppermint Cat-Piss Swamp Water (patent pending!) Consisting of well water, Dr Bronners Peppermint hemp oil soap, mosquito bits, Neem seed meal, greensand, DTE 5-4-2, FF sledgehammer yucca, FF root drench, FF microbe brew, great white, real growers recharge, bokashi etc, etc
shaken not stirred feed water
the gray ring shows up nicely against the blue tub background. what you’re seeing is a very dirty highwater mark inside swick reservoir tub. The odor in the flower room is putrid AF, it literally smells like shite. Every few minutes I get a whiff and look up, I’m thinking - Who stepped in dog shit?? Then I realize, yup I did that!
the ball is a recent clump of Bokashi bran that was added but has yet to fully dissolve, the other chunky bits are what used to be whiteish pumice thats now dark stained after sitting for weeks in primordial ooze. Side shots of her stained up grow bag
had to re-rig her colas, while she’s no beauty queen she didn’t fade a single leaf until about week 6 of flower…
summary… The plant is top dressed with layers of EWC, Geoflora organic, mosquito bits, Neem seed meal, one inch mulch layer of rice hulls covered with oyster shells and eastern yellow sand. This top layer of sand has really helped eradicate the funkus gnats…
but the biggest takeaway is…. this is an organish grow but I’d say we are approaching anerobic / near toxic conditions as far as the buildup of creeping crud, but the plant doesn’t care… all thru flower I‘ve added the liquid fish to the res and to my top water sessions every 3rd or 4th day I spray 2 quarts water with about a 5 to 10 mil splash of Alaska fish ferts and allow the plant to sip on runoff leachate.
No air stones but I’ve put 2 of the 4 inch mini fans pointing at her res waterline, mostly to help evap liquids which has the effect of concentrating the nutrients in the sludge water. Also run dehum thru flower
this girl has been munching on fish all thru flower and really surprised that it hasn’t spawned aquatic life like gators and shit.
don’t try this at home and YMMV.
thanks for reading
When I tried liquid organic inputs directly into my reservoir (it was a SIP, not Swick) with a perlite only reservoir, I didn't find them very effective. I had better success when the reservoir level was half and half perlire and soil mix, so I came to the conclusion that soil microbes were needed to actually feed the plant.
The grower will be strong scaling that tree every day to water.
It is on my rural property, no one will see . Its mainly to stop thieves or visitors from seeing it .
Ah, I'd bet the results were more based on the top feedings than the ones through the reservoir, at least based on my experience. Just keep an eye out for funky smells in the reservoir. @Carmen Ray can tell you about that.
