Ok time for an update.
This grow has turned into a complete shit show, Where do I begin??
My veg room was so infected with the slime. I could no longer keep it going. I put the plants in there and 3 days later the water would get cloudy. The new root growth would turn brown and I would have to cut it off and start over. I Cleaned the whole system and tried again with the same results. Tried HF, H202, Physan, and zone with the same results. Slime was growing around the uni seals as well.
So I hurried up and got the plants in the flower rooms. I cleaned the shit out of the flower uc's bleach, physan exc.. got the plants in there and bam same shit in the flower rooms I tried everything I know to do. At my wits end I decided to scrap everything and start new. One of the major downfalls of my system is that I thought I was being SLICK by running the air lines inside the 3" pvc. Now I realize what a stupid Idea that was. There is no way to break the whole system down and clean it properly. All of my previous grow experience were all smash and grab grows, Buy a shitty house in the getto run Krusty buckets for 1 or 2 runs max, cash out, trash the whole system, and Fix up the house and move on. I never had to use the same system over and over in the same spot, so I really never learned the importance of sterilizing everything. Now with 5 rdwc grows under my belt I am getting the picture.
Here is a shot of the slime growing around the uni seals.
So I trashed everything amd made temporary bubble buckets for the plants while I rebuilt.
After reading everything I could find about the slime, brown algee, cyrobacteria whatever you want to call it. Im thinking that I am just reinfecting my system by using straight wellwater and bleach to flush it out. I did one bubble bucket with straight well water with Physan, zone, and h202 and a few days later this is what was in there...
The other buckets with ro were still clear.
So Here is my new and improved DIY UC's
Ok so now I finished 1 of the new UC'c Filled it with straight well water and about 1/2 gallon of bleach to flush out the pvc cement and plastic shavings from the system before filling it with RO. (Bad Idea I think). Cleaned it out shop vac'ed and dried it out. Filled it with RO, light nutes and Physan 3ml 10 gallons. All kinds of gunk started to bubble up and stick to the sides. In the brand new system.
I think that my well has the virus built in and ready to infect anything it touches. I think that some of it passes through my RO as well.
I cleaned out the gunk and dead crap from all the new tubs and It has been running clean and stable for 5 days now.
I have decided to Pre treat all of my RO water with physan and a UV sterilizer before it ever goes in my hydro setup.
Getto uv pre treater
On to putting the plants back into the system. I pulled all of the plants out of the netpots and cut all the roots back and dunked them in a physan solution, in a h202 solution, then repotted them in physan treated hydroton and new netpots.
I set the plants back in the flower rooms on top of the new UC's for 2 days to make sure my nute solution was stable and clean.
They have now been in their new homes for 3 days and I am waiting for some new root growth to appear any day now.
SO far this shit is going to set me back about 4 or 5 weeks, which equals out to be 1/2 a harvest lost. If I cant get this worked out soon I might be rethinking my whole setup.