jackhammer
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I hope this is not a redundant question. I tried to search for an answer first…
I'm at a loss to figure out why all of the sudden my plants have a brown slime on them. It happened overnight. Here is the low down.
Day six into flower. Plants are growing at 1 inch per day
Changed out nutes/cleaned system yesterday morning and 24 hrs later this is the mess that I have.
Details:
Sensi Bloom 2 part (used equal amounts of A&B)
Flora Nectar
Maxicrop Liquid Sea Weed
DWC Re-Circulating
40gal capacity in the system
PPM:1863 at change out/1520 24hrs later
Ph:5.64 at change out/ 6.41 24hrs later
Added ph down to reach 5.7 this morning.
Res temp: 82.6f
Room temp: 85f/80f
RH 35%
2000w / 1 MH 1 HPS
Each station has a 2”drain, air stone, continuous drip @2gal per min each.
Plant is PPP which has been inoculated with Piranha twice. The last time was three weeks ago.
Four sites have plants that are 3 months old and four sites have plants that are three week old clones.
Plants in the example are a set of three week old clones in the same system. The bigger plants don’t seem to have the problem as much or as extreme as the little ones in this system which is why I’m posting pics of the worst one.
I know my res temp is high but I have never had this issue and I’m on three months worth of veg for four sites and three weeks from clone from the four other sites. I’ve never had this problem up to now.
I rinsed the roots with a light spray and the goo came right off. I could have rinsed more but I was afraid to. I figured I would wait and try to find out what is going on. The roots don’t look too bad after the rinse but could use another bath.
The question is…If this is root rot, how did my system get contaminated when there was nothing like this in my system before I changed out the nutes 24 hrs ago and there is nothing in the bubble cloner.
If it’s from the carbs is this a common problem? I tried a search on the matter but didn’t find what I was looking for. All the brown roots that I’ve seen so far on other threads took some time to get where they were at. But in 24hrs?
My hope is that this slime is the flora Nectar doing it’s thing and feeding the beneficial fungi and not root rot or algie. And would an advanced case of root rot rinse off and not take the roots with it?
The pics are my system and the roots with slime are before and after a light rinse.
The plant was not phased by the rinse, up to now, which is about 9hrs.
WTF?
All opinions are welcome and appreciated.
Two 3 week old clones
Brown Slime. 24hrs ago they were clean
After a light rinse
12 week old plant. Pic is from 6 days ago
Her root ball is from 6 days ago. I don't have a pic from this morning to show slime but it's not as bad as the smaller plants. I only put this pic up to show that the system is clean and works well. There was no goop in this system until this morning.
I'm at a loss to figure out why all of the sudden my plants have a brown slime on them. It happened overnight. Here is the low down.
Day six into flower. Plants are growing at 1 inch per day
Changed out nutes/cleaned system yesterday morning and 24 hrs later this is the mess that I have.
Details:
Sensi Bloom 2 part (used equal amounts of A&B)
Flora Nectar
Maxicrop Liquid Sea Weed
DWC Re-Circulating
40gal capacity in the system
PPM:1863 at change out/1520 24hrs later
Ph:5.64 at change out/ 6.41 24hrs later
Added ph down to reach 5.7 this morning.
Res temp: 82.6f
Room temp: 85f/80f
RH 35%
2000w / 1 MH 1 HPS
Each station has a 2”drain, air stone, continuous drip @2gal per min each.
Plant is PPP which has been inoculated with Piranha twice. The last time was three weeks ago.
Four sites have plants that are 3 months old and four sites have plants that are three week old clones.
Plants in the example are a set of three week old clones in the same system. The bigger plants don’t seem to have the problem as much or as extreme as the little ones in this system which is why I’m posting pics of the worst one.
I know my res temp is high but I have never had this issue and I’m on three months worth of veg for four sites and three weeks from clone from the four other sites. I’ve never had this problem up to now.
I rinsed the roots with a light spray and the goo came right off. I could have rinsed more but I was afraid to. I figured I would wait and try to find out what is going on. The roots don’t look too bad after the rinse but could use another bath.
The question is…If this is root rot, how did my system get contaminated when there was nothing like this in my system before I changed out the nutes 24 hrs ago and there is nothing in the bubble cloner.
If it’s from the carbs is this a common problem? I tried a search on the matter but didn’t find what I was looking for. All the brown roots that I’ve seen so far on other threads took some time to get where they were at. But in 24hrs?
My hope is that this slime is the flora Nectar doing it’s thing and feeding the beneficial fungi and not root rot or algie. And would an advanced case of root rot rinse off and not take the roots with it?
The pics are my system and the roots with slime are before and after a light rinse.
The plant was not phased by the rinse, up to now, which is about 9hrs.
WTF?
All opinions are welcome and appreciated.
Two 3 week old clones
Brown Slime. 24hrs ago they were clean
After a light rinse
12 week old plant. Pic is from 6 days ago
Her root ball is from 6 days ago. I don't have a pic from this morning to show slime but it's not as bad as the smaller plants. I only put this pic up to show that the system is clean and works well. There was no goop in this system until this morning.
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