desertsquirrel
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BTW why are you paying all that money for RE? IBA is dirt cheap and 10X better.
Sorry, it was algae. It was starting to grow in the rez when I noticed it. Shortly after the Ph started swinging, and found it on the roots.
I was trying to run a sterile system at the time. It's much easier running with tea.
Im pretty sure all the brown in the system is from the RE and wouldnt be surprised if thats on the roots as well. For the most part the roots look healthy besides the brown shit on em.
I would take each individual plant out one at a time and gently rinse them with tap water in a 5 gal bucket changing the water after each plant. Gently massage the roots while holding the net pot over the bucket. This will clean your roots and they will bounce back fast. I would also dump all the water and start fresh in the systems.
Try aquashield shit stays clean in the rez and fights off nastys
Ive been there and this is what Ive done and they will bounce back fast the roots still look healthy and not rotted
Do not keep throwing different shit in the system its not gonna help sit back and wait a few days after this next flush and refill and everything will work out
Its defiantly rot. I assume when they started to blow up you overdid it with the application rates in conjunction with the warm water... Bring down your solution strength - do not switch your entire program from sterile to living.
Listen to who ever you want, but they only thing (and im pretty sure there isnt anything we haven't tried) that has fixed rot for us is UC roots.
BTW why are you paying all that money for RE? IBA is dirt cheap and 10X better.
Desert Sq is correct, this is rot. Same I went thru. I use a superb R.O system and tried every product you can order or buy to repair roots. The Uc roots did slow it, but it still went bad. It started as brown algae, exactly like diatoms and Im sure they were. You can contact cch2o and send in a water sample to have tested. Even once you know the pathogen you can create a plan of action, but its already in every nook & cranny in your system. My first run I also changed water almost everyday, bout 200 gallons. Was a nightmare!! For me roots exc and hygrozyme were a horrible mistake, like most here say...
Do what d.s. says and go living immediately, do not wait, hesitate, or delay. Buy these things
good worm castings any kind but try to get em form a indoor supplier
ancient forest
some quality bene's caps are great but till then, just use what you can
aquashield a must, feeds on pythium, nuff said
molasses food source to feed the tea
I use 2 cups wormcasts, 1 cup ancient forest, in a old sock, add a teaspoon of benes, 20ml aquasield, 20ml molasses per 2 gallons of purified water. I'd make like 20 gallons or so for ur size get up and add it directly to the epi. It only takes a day to make it. Ready in 12hrs! Once a week add another 5 gallons or so. This will salvage ur entire crop. If you cant find ancient forest, dont sweat, add it next batch. The worm casts and aquashield are the true repair. Pythium exists no matter what or who or where... The warm water helped create the right conditions. CAP, and ghetto are well versed and helped me with the tea. Get a rubbermaid a cheap airston and air pump. I just tapped the alita line and it made bad ass tea for me.
good luck man, you will be perfectly fine if you do this asap. Dont waste any money on products or labels and go straight to tea. None of the other shit will work and you will waste a shit ton of valuable time waiting for some over the counter wonder product with a beautiful label to do mother fuckin nothing! Maybe even make it worse.
P.m me since Im busy w multiple projects if you have any questions. Ill get a email if you do and I will hit you right back. I hated waiting and stressing for help... look for any rot on the stem byt the base where ur cuts meet the media. I had stem rot as well on a few. If so Ill tell you a sure fire method to control it as well.
Fuzzy +1, cooler temps have more oxygen and slows the spread of pythium and algae.
ZHO is ok, but do order CAPS pack. Also BG used aquashield in earlier threads and I pm'd him, he explained why he liked it...Add it to the tea, I feel it made the "quick" difference for me too, because on my second batch of tea, the worst roots began to heal.
Keep paying attention to daily actions ur doing, and adjustments you make. Do you keep notes? Create a daily or weekly log to monitor this shit, and food, and temps, and whatever. I posted mine some where, feel free to copy. For me its a also aid in nute and ph adjustments for performance on follow up runs.
Keep flushing the tea thru the root crown and get out all the slime and rot you cant see. (I even looked up into the bottom of the roots letting all that shit get all over me, took slides for the microscope and blew up photos to help identify the issue)
Note if you see a ph change immediately after adding tea, the brew will have a high ph, a few hrs later you may adjust the ph in the system, but it should stabilize. Also Im only talking about .25 up, and thats nothing to worry about. Watch to see if ppms drop even if ph is still dropping, this means ur plants are still feeding even though they are struggling. This is a good sign.
Is ph still dropping daily?
whats ur ppm/ec/tds at now vs yesterday/last week?
whats the ph of ur finished brew?
Take a photo of the foam after the brew and post it.
Remeber you can even use the system water to flush that shit outta the root crown because it has the tea in it now. Just dont get it on the main stalk too much, you dont want stalk rot too. lol
Good work.
Why do you say that?