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I veg in 8 gallon systems and move them to 13 gallon systems for flowering. My plants generally do fine in veg, in this case there were a few spots on the roots that weren't perfectly white but 98% of the roots were beautiful, white and wishboned. Their veg will be ~450-500ppm, 68 degrees, 6.3pH. The nutrients will be H&G A+B, Multi-Zen, Drip Clean, and Roots Excelurator. When I planted the clones they would each get 5-10mL of Orca squirted on their roots and I would add ~1g/10gallon of mycostop to the system.
The flower systems will have been dismantled and scrubbed, put back together and run with a strong peroxide solution overnight. After that I drain the system and vacuum out any remaining peroxide solution and leave the vacuum on the water lines for a bit as well. I then fill with RO and the same nutrients raised to 600ppm, I lower the nutrient level from an inch or so above the bottom in veg to just below the netpot, I also remove black and white poly that was put over the hydrocorn in veg to block light when the plants were small. I add the mycostop at the same rate. I add the plants and squirt more Orca on the roots. Overnight the roots go from white and beautiful to a yellowed tint. The next day they are limp, clumped, and starting to get slimy. This has happened to me nearly every run, usually the roots die and new ones grow, sometimes the roots just stay unhealthy permanently and I have to remove lots of plant material to make up for the lack of health roots or just kill it off. I have no idea why this keeps happening. Any ideas?
I've included a picture of my veg roots which are near perfect, notice that you can see one single root near the middle bottom of the net pot which is brown, there's probably 2 or three of these and the rest are nice and white. The two are what the roots look like after 48 hours.
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I veg in 8 gallon systems and move them to 13 gallon systems for flowering. My plants generally do fine in veg, in this case there were a few spots on the roots that weren't perfectly white but 98% of the roots were beautiful, white and wishboned. Their veg will be ~450-500ppm, 68 degrees, 6.3pH. The nutrients will be H&G A+B, Multi-Zen, Drip Clean, and Roots Excelurator. When I planted the clones they would each get 5-10mL of Orca squirted on their roots and I would add ~1g/10gallon of mycostop to the system.
Just Curious as to why you use 10 times what is recommended on Mycostop? The associate at CCH2O told me 2 grams is good for 200 gallons.
I'm not familiar with orca is that a root zone additive. I use UC roots and it works fine with Mycostop.
Sorry brain not working yet.
Just curious as to why you use 10 times what is recommended on the Mycostop? The associate at CCH2O told me 2 grams for 200 gals.
Also I not familiar with Orca is that something like UC roots for the root zone?
I just started use of Mycostop and it works fine with UC Roots.
I've tried it several times. It certainly hurts my roots, they grow more limp with little to no branching, sooner or later rot was always showing up anyway. It would start above the waterline and eventually come down.I will also say uc roots is very helpful with root issues (some people use pool shock?) But again with this product no living things like orca. This always clears any issues right up and new growth starts for me
Forgot to ask you, did u ecmver find the problem or cause? Since this happened to u back in january. Just noticed that, lol.There essentially all yellow/brown now with a bit of sliminess. Some have one or two unaffected single perfectly white roots, no idea why they're unaffected. View attachment 561954 View attachment 561955 View attachment 561956
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