Jumping Right In! Brand New Set Up

[Goodthingsgrow]

nice grow im in southern OView attachment 1063849ntario just started mine November 1st

Looking good!
I am also in the south. Very close to TO.

 

[Goodthingsgrow]

Doh!
They look hangry!

Sorry. By hangry I meant for water. Said it like that for dramatic effect.

 

[kevinfever]

im right off lake Erie

 

[Goodthingsgrow]

The lights will go off soon.
The environment is fairly constant all night.
I definitely need to water more. The pots are light again. The smaller one is still fine.
Will do when the lights are back on.

 

[Goodthingsgrow]

For the flower tent, I made a stand for the new dehumidifier.
It‘s a phone and phone book stand from the 70’s. I glued a ceramic tile to the top of it and wrapped it in foil tape.
I also took the wheels off of the dehumidifier.
Its connected to the Trolmaster Beta 6 day/night humidity controller.

 

[Goodthingsgrow]

Is this microbial smell related to root rot?
A peroxide soak would help right?

Never peroxide in soil if u ask me but thats why I switched to coco. You will kill all your beneficial stuff imo.

For $48 I can't even wrap my head around that...

Go back to basics a little and keep it simple. You must 1st be able to keep a plant alive with only water and the most basic food before you start throwing all this crap at it. Just my 2 cents tho

I new I read this somewhere!

 

[Grownsince95]

I new I read this somewhere!

That whole page is about hydro. I know. I use h2o2 in coco. Did you read the editors note on the bottom? That's what im talking about.

I just read somewhere on the internet that the earth was flat too ...hold on let me go find it

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[Goodthingsgrow]

It’s not the only place I’ve read it.

 

[Goodthingsgrow]

Shall I source another for you?

 

[Grownsince95]

Dude seriously? You wanna argue with me when you're showing references to 3% h202 solutions and your pic has some high power 26% super duper enzymatic blah blah hydro store $50 noob rip off job? Please.

 

[Grownsince95]

I'm sorry I ever opened my mouth. Next time there's a prob...just unload a bunch of expensive shit on your plants...don't be frugal. You'll be fine

 

[Goodthingsgrow]

Whatever. You’re just plain wrong. Price does not change the truth.

 

[Grownsince95]

The percent not the price...maybe if you put up a pic of a bottle of 3% and spoke from experience not from what you just read in a forum I would take the time to explain the subtleties of using h202 in your grow.

Unless your planning a swath of death and destruction you shouldn't use the kind that says highly corrosive but that's about all I am going to explain you should keep searching the forums though you're gonna dig up a lot of great stuff good luck

 

[Goodthingsgrow]

You don’t know how to dilute?

 

[Goodthingsgrow]

I’ll source that for you too. Hang on.

 

[Aqua Man]

Let me try to clear this up... anaerobic conditions in pots with soil only happens from overwatering. Over watering is not watering to much its watering to often. A sopping wet soil has minimal gas exchange and as the o2 is used up by the roots and microbes it becomes depleted (anaerobic)and this is why perlite is beneficial as the better the drainage the less likely it is to occur.

I would NEVER use h2o2 in my soil... as explained it will severely hurt the microbes population and possibly wipe them out. Its highly oxidative. Now you can treat water before hand with it and use UV light to accelerate it and burn out the h2o2 or aerate it for 24hrs then it's fine.

The smell is not from anaerobic bacteria but from anaerobic conditions that kill aerobic bacteria and this smell is the decaying bacteria. This can also happen when you feed the microbes heavy and then stop and the population booms and crashes when it runs out of food.

 

[Goodthingsgrow]

The percent not the price...maybe if you put up a pic of a bottle of 3% and spoke from experience not from what you just read in a forum I would take the time to explain the subtleties of using h202 in your grow. View attachment 1064328
Unless your planning a swath of death and destruction you shouldn't use the kind that says highly corrosive but that's about all I am going to explain you should keep searching the forums though you're gonna dig up a lot of great stuff good luck

it Is for that general purpose on bacteria. For disinfecting. The tables, pumps, hoses, etc.

 

[Grownsince95]

it Is for that general purpose on bacteria. For disinfecting. The tables, pumps, hoses, etc.

I believe this was your question though...

 

[Grownsince95]

Let me try to clear this up... anaerobic conditions in pots with soil only happens from overwatering. Over watering is not watering to much its watering to often. A sopping wet soil has minimal gas exchange and as the o2 is used up by the roots and microbes it becomes depleted (anaerobic)and this is why perlite is beneficial as the better the drainage the less likely it is to occur.

I would NEVER use h2o2 in my soil... as explained it will severely hurt the microbes population and possibly wipe them out. Its highly oxidative. Now you can treat water before hand with it and use UV light to accelerate it and burn out the h2o2 or aerate it for 24hrs then it's fine.

The smell is not from anaerobic bacteria but from anaerobic conditions that kill aerobic bacteria and this smell is the decaying bacteria. This can also happen when you feed the microbes heavy and then stop and the population booms and crashes when it runs out of food.

And seriously thank you for clearing that up because my reasoning was wrong although methodology may have been correct I definitely learned something you the man always
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[Aqua Man]

And seriously thank you for clearing that up because my reasoning was wrong although methodology may have been correct I definitely learned something you the man always
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Thought you were pretty on point here... but didn't read it all.