So would it be pointless to crown feed with Roots Excelurator and Great White if you used Zone in your buckets? Also, would you just ditch the Zone and use AquaShield instead? :wonderingThe fungi colonizes in the the root crown area and at the base of the net pot....especially the mycorrhizals that actually live both within and through the roots themselves. The fungi has a very hard time colonizing the solution itself....that zone is generally dominated by the bacteria.
Its really helpful to keep the bacterial food sources at a minimum to help keep the bacteria from overwhelming the system.....this is usually when pH fluctuations begin.
What about adding bags (pump bags) zip tied full of hydroton, dyna-rok, or pea gravel for the bennies to colonize? They could be placed under the diffuser in the epi. It would be just like a brand new fish tank having to reach some sort of homestasis when bacteria boosters are used before fish are added. The good bacteria, the beneficial, in the fish tank help maintain order in the tank, preventing additional foreign bacterial intruders and id rather have good then bad. Same in my UC.
Nice info guys.. I gotta be honest.. while your medical journal insight is great for looking smart I think I, along with the rest of the community in here, would love if everything was to the point and in laymen terms. I already graduated from college, I just wanna grasp the to the point info instead of getting the ENTIRE genetic engineers notes on the reason they formulated a new product. So point being.. I gather some like a sterile system but you can open yourself to "SUPER BUGS" or some people like live systems with protective myco systems protecting the roots. Got it!... I just want my plants to grow good without issues.. I will not run a completely sterile system.. too many benefits with other stuff which is much more natural in sense.
What about adding bags (pump bags) zip tied full of hydroton, dyna-rok, or pea gravel for the bennies to colonize? They could be placed under the diffuser in the epi. It would be just like a brand new fish tank having to reach some sort of homestasis when bacteria boosters are used before fish are added. The good bacteria, the beneficial, in the fish tank help maintain order in the tank, preventing additional foreign bacterial intruders and id rather have good then bad. Same in my UC.
Good point Deacon.
Shady....ditch zone and use Aquashield, save the zone for disinfection and emergency reboots. The zone efficiency will wear off so crown feed away my brother.
Mr. Good Cat, skip the enzymes as the bennie bacteria will produce that for you.
Brown slime algae is easy to address and cure in a DWC with a microbe tea. I would post my recipe but Farmer Jon has already posted it word for word a few pages back. You can refer to his post for my instructions.
Forget constant sterilization. Breed active bennies for 2 days, sterilize the roots/bucket one final time, make a fresh res with no nutes, and add active bennies(1 cup per gallon of res). Wait 12-24 hours and add nutes. Add 1 cup tea every three days.
No organic material in the res
1 wt air pump per gallon of res
no light leaks
You can use any sort of microbe product for the tea (except AN products) just make sure they contain bacillis and trichoderma. Feed the bennies in the tea, never in the res.
I apologize for not giving you credit for the great information and tea recipe.
I thought you name was under the title when I pasted the info.
Your name has been added to my original post and again I thank you.
:handshake
On a side note, I hope you will hang around the farm a bit and allow us to pick your brain.
FJ
Yes lots of info.. Anyone message Papa to ask if he could kindly sticky this to the UC section and relabel it "Post your UC problems here"
No worries. The important thing is that the slime is purged from as many dwc grows as possible. Feel free to ask whatever you like. I have a years experience fighting the slime, and now a years experience growing with it successfully gone. The slime is the only thing which I hold a grudge against.
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