I asked Chris from groovy hydro a quick question,
Hey Chris, quick question, can you use hydrofungicide in combination with other products, h202, zone, or roots excel, etc.
Any advice i can pass on?
"Lets start by grouping the products into similar families.
Zone, HF, and H2O2 are all sterilizers . . they kill good & bad micro-organisms. Neither Zone nor HF can say it on the label though, as I explained here by making an example of Zone:
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Hey there - Hydro-Fungicide is actually a brand name of an Australian product that has been used there successfully for 11 years. On this side of the equator, there are two suppliers, hydroponics.com in Canada, and in the United States groovyhydro.com (me). Canada calls it Hydro-Sparkle, here in the USA we call it Down Under-HF.
The active ingredient in Zone is chloramine, which is a softened down derivative of Chlorine aka bleach (Chlorox). If you smell it, it smells like a nice fresh swimming pool. Not to knock Zone, it does a good job on Pythium (Root Rot). Farmers have, however, reported cases of the slime (brown algae) while running DM Zone.
When you read the instructions on a bottle of Zone, you will not see them claiming it kills anything. That is because in the US and Canada, something is a pesticide when the label says it kills something. So quite literally, if you take a bottle of water and put a label on it that says it kills mildew, the EPA considers it a pesticide and therefore it needs to be registered.
Registration takes 2 years, during which time you cannot sell the product. Registration also takes a minimum of $120,000, and can go as high as $500,000 or more for newly formulated chemical compounds.
I will have to ask the Manufacturer (SandA Products) what the effect of Zone & HF would be, I doubt anything bad, either they would both be on patrol so to speak, or one may negate the effect of the other. But I am pretty sure adding them BOTH in wont make it safe again for baddies.
On a side note, many people get a false sense of success when they use H2O2 . . remember, its like that OXY CLEAN stuff, it bleaches things. I have read people saying .. ‘I hit the system with 35% H2O2 – in 30mins the roots were white’! Yeah the color changed, the brown got bleached out but it doesn’t mean they turned back into brand new white healthy roots in half an hour lol.
Now on to Roots Excel – a mysterious expensive yet definitely awesome product. From what I know, Roots Excel is a multi-component product. It FOR SURE has anaerobic bacteria (good kind) in there, to help colonize some good guys in the root area. I am also pretty sure it has those hormones that comes from willow bark, (Auxins) that stimulate root growth, or something similar. So basically, if you use it with any of the 3 sterilizers, you are turning it from a 2-trick pony into a 1-trick pony . . instead of it growing goodies & making roots blow up with growth, you are saying ‘fuck the lil good guys, I want a sterile res ,. . but while your down there, make the roots grow faster anyway’. Which doesn’t sound too bad in my opinion."
