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JK, UCME What is it about the UC that makes it difficult to run benes thru the system instead of just crowning? And JK how does your tanks avoid this?
Bennies work well in the UC.....it's all about keeping the food sources limited so as not to cause population explosions, rather keeping bennies on high alert in the instance their services are needed.
Reason you want to keep the bene food source low is that the UC is basically a large recirc tea brewer. If you get heavy inoculation coupled with food source you basically begin a brew cycle in your hydro system.
Though this sounds bio romantic enough, it's not that well suited for a water culture hydro system. A variety of things happen during a brew cycle that are not so good for rdwc which include pH shifts, biofilming, etc.
Less is more with bennies in the UC, remember*****Fungi in the crown, Bacillus in the solution.
Keep it clean, but not sterile IMO
SO basically fungi are the mycho's like great white.... and bacillus are like roots oregonism, aquashield etc...
Im still getting all my products down and what they contain.
Great White also has a plethora of Bacillus as well. I have been using ZHO over the top and Aquashield below and have still had some issues so I am still trying to work out the dosages. I have also switched out ZHO for Great White recently because GW has a more diverse spectrum of bennies than ZHO and I believe Aquashield as well. Again, I am still working out the concentrations to add for each. If I continue to have problems (I have pulled two plants out of eighteen from the system with the early stages of rot already... good thing I have backups!) I am going to have to throw Heisenberg's tea at it.
Here's hoping for my first UC harvest.
M
Yep 3ml per gallon every things happy as can be