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It seems that this topic should be addressed as many people are having problems with brown slime aka root rot aka brown algae aka cyanobacteria.
I ran a customized RDWC system for a couple of years so I am fairly well versed in live and sterile. I started off sterile and switched everything to live eventually, and in the end ended up going to chow beds for ease of use and reliability, something that anyone reading this may want to consider if they depend on their crop for medicinal use, or if they are a caregiver. Losing entire crops sucks.
If you find yourself getting "slimed", you need to take action immediately. I gleaned most of my info when I first got slimed a few years ago from richyrich, a member of another site (not sure if he is here too but if he is: mad props goes out to him). You can find him by searching slime haters club on the net. I suggest you do that now, and read all the info there. When you are ready to make the tea, instead of using great white, zho, aquashield, RE, etc.. all you need is the OG BIOWAR root pack for your microbe source
@1T of root pack per gallon of tea.
1) sterilize
2) add back tea and go easy on the nutes util you see new growth.
3) keep fingers crossed.
I was able to finish many successful runs this way, and never got slimed again after my fist episode, and running a live res after that. By live res I mean no sterilizing agents. Relying on the abundance of good bacteria to out compete the bad cyanobacteria.
One thing you should never do: MIX SUBSTRATES!!
What I mean by that is do not put a 6" rockwool block in a net pot of hydroton. If you are gonna use hydroton, root in an easy cloner and go straight to all hydroton. I recommend straight chow in the net pot (50/50 coco/hydroton or coco/perlite). I got the least amount of crown problems this way. With rockwool aka rotwool I was generally doomed to get the dreaded elephants foot and overnight my trees would die. :(
Good luck!
Cap
I ran a customized RDWC system for a couple of years so I am fairly well versed in live and sterile. I started off sterile and switched everything to live eventually, and in the end ended up going to chow beds for ease of use and reliability, something that anyone reading this may want to consider if they depend on their crop for medicinal use, or if they are a caregiver. Losing entire crops sucks.
If you find yourself getting "slimed", you need to take action immediately. I gleaned most of my info when I first got slimed a few years ago from richyrich, a member of another site (not sure if he is here too but if he is: mad props goes out to him). You can find him by searching slime haters club on the net. I suggest you do that now, and read all the info there. When you are ready to make the tea, instead of using great white, zho, aquashield, RE, etc.. all you need is the OG BIOWAR root pack for your microbe source
@1T of root pack per gallon of tea.
1) sterilize
2) add back tea and go easy on the nutes util you see new growth.
3) keep fingers crossed.
I was able to finish many successful runs this way, and never got slimed again after my fist episode, and running a live res after that. By live res I mean no sterilizing agents. Relying on the abundance of good bacteria to out compete the bad cyanobacteria.
One thing you should never do: MIX SUBSTRATES!!
What I mean by that is do not put a 6" rockwool block in a net pot of hydroton. If you are gonna use hydroton, root in an easy cloner and go straight to all hydroton. I recommend straight chow in the net pot (50/50 coco/hydroton or coco/perlite). I got the least amount of crown problems this way. With rockwool aka rotwool I was generally doomed to get the dreaded elephants foot and overnight my trees would die. :(
Good luck!
Cap