desertsquirrel
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Yep, all the tops are tied down to the outside of the cages.
yeah, my steady upswing slowed, stopped and then started to swing the other way. 1 h202 treatment of 3% at 3 ml per gal seems to have at least stabilized the swing. I hope to see it going up again tonight.
The thing to remember about swing is that as the plant uptake ions it is first of all removing acids from the water (raising pH) but it also dropping sugars and hydroxyl ions back into the water (raising pH). IF your not seeing an up swing you have a problem.
pH swing, epsom, and cal-mag fixed the initial plant health issues.
Pythium has not been present until a few days ago. I dont need to see pythium to know its there, i can tell just from my pH meter when its present.
H202 is doing very well at killing it.
DS, sometimes the pH not going up and uptake stalling can be associated with getting the EC a little too high causing the plant to stifle and not metabolize.
What's your stats on your solution?
I tried h202 and it didn't work for me. I assumed, like with pythoff, that it dissaptes too quickly in the system without heavy dosing...maybe my plants needed something more aggressive.
Ok this is speculation. Could you have had a mild attack of pythium in the beginning that wasn't bad enough to swing the PH? Of course pythium attacks the roots and that's why they look defecient when you have it, maybe you increasing the cal/mag in the water made enough nutrient available that the plants health improved and it was able to recover quickly? Just a thought.
Also from my hours and hours of research of pythium from what I understand is that it is in almost all unsterilized water (including city water)...so its in most everybody's system if they aren't running completely sterile. When the plants get stressed their immune system weakens and then the pythium is able to colonize.
Hospital grade water system is discussed earlier in the thread. And sterilizers are inline on the UCs.
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