It's funny because Heisen has no idea how much I do respect his opinion! I just LOVE doing things the hard way.
Really this grow hasn't been much different than he does. The results are much different and I accept that!
What I'm not sure of is why my roots started getting brown in the first place. I literally had it setup to a tee the way heisen said, not blaming just explaining.
68 to 70 water
70% humidity
Hydroguard
EC .4
And I still got brown roots and then tried the compost tea then it went really down hill a few days later.
The only things I can think of is that they are clones from flowering plants, they came from dirt and lastly they were preteens with NO roots. I get that the compost tea was a bad choice but everything else was followed to the tee. Perhaps as the other person said maybe it has to do with my moldy environment?
I'm going to move to waterfalls in each bucket instead this weekend. At least this way I can remove any concern of contamination from the air pumps.