514hydroponic said:

Hello
I am new to this forum hopefully looking to get some advice.
I recently had a grobo which is now bankrupt. Didnt want to take the chance at letting it continue to grow in the grobo as they can kill there servers at any time.

Around week 3 i took out the plant from my grobo coco and put it in my new tent setup.
Ever since, root rot and ph spikes have been in full force.

Now for sure my roots are looking horrible and have root rot. but the plant is not looking bad at all.
I have been trying to do frequent water changes and making sure i put hydro guard. but no improvement (to the roots)

question is, do i let it keep growing, or cut my loses and start fresh?

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514hydroponic said:

Hello
I am new to this forum hopefully looking to get some advice.
I recently had a grobo which is now bankrupt. Didnt want to take the chance at letting it continue to grow in the grobo as they can kill there servers at any time.

Around week 3 i took out the plant from my grobo coco and put it in my new tent setup.
Ever since, root rot and ph spikes have been in full force.

Now for sure my roots are looking horrible and have root rot. but the plant is not looking bad at all.
I have been trying to do frequent water changes and making sure i put hydro guard. but no improvement (to the roots)

question is, do i let it keep growing, or cut my loses and start fresh?

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_VLAD_ said:

Do you have beneficials in the dwc? I had a similar problem recently. I use southern AG but I believe I had some residual bleach still left in my totes after cleaning.

I just top fed to make sure I flushed the hydroton everyday until good roots started formingView attachment 1219394View attachment 1219396View attachment 1219401

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Anthem said:

I would just go sterile and be done with it!!

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Moe.Red said:

I very much disagree, but that's OK. To each his own.

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Moe.Red said:

My first several hydro grows were Sterile. RDWC, CO2, all the fixings.

Switched to BB, micro and upped res temp from 68 to 72 on feedback from Aqua Man.

Night and day. Terps are way stronger, roots continue to grow and thrive all the way to the end, and the plants seem overall more resilient to issues like PH swings, etc. I'd say overall it leveled up my grows. I'll never go back.

Things like enzymes and mycorrhiza need to be continually purchased, but you don't need a lot. Benes can last forever once you have your colony built and you can just transplant them from grow to grow, still sterilizing in between, without needing to constantly buy more. It's like a fish tank - once the colony sets up you don't have to recycle every month unless you make a mistake and kill the colony. I use filter media from a fish store to repopulate from a running system to a new one - fast and costs virtually nothing.

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