DWC - Root rot / Plant looking ok - advice?

[514hydroponic]

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?

 

[SofaKingHigh]

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?

I’m not a dwc guy but I’ll give you a bump

 

[_VLAD_]

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 forming

 

[Smokey0418]

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?

Perhaps try rinse the gunk of there first and then the hydroguard , orca mycorrhizae or ag if you can tone it down.

 

[smokedareefer]

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

Good catch on the bleach messing with your bennies and then top feeding until the roots caught up.

Bleach is all I've ever used to clean.

 

[Moe.Red]

I think I would treat with enzymes and Great White.

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The 2 together should break down rotten root mass in short order and make way for the new stuff to grow back healthy.

 

[Anthem]

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

 

[Moe.Red]

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

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

 

[Anthem]

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

Please explain your opinion Moe.

 

[Moe.Red]

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.

 

[Anthem]

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.

Interesting because I have a situation where I do really well with one grow and the other is always lacking. The reason why I am saying interesting is because I have one rez right under and AC and the AC is constantly cooling the water in the rez. The other one does not have this situation but is room temperature. The room temperature is always out performing the cooler rez. I had heard the same from AM but I have never follow thru with trying to up the temperature in the rez. I might have to try that.