Question about hydro, algae, mold and soil...

[svleeh]

Hello grow community!

I have some question to you whose more experienced than me.

I’ve been growing seedlings in jiffy and then planted ’em to rockwool cubes. Soon as I planted them the algae started to grow on ’em and now the cubes smell kinda moldy…

The question is that is it safe to put those to NFT setup or do I have to plant them in the soil?

The smell reminds me of bacteria or fungi and I consider that are those bacterias and fungis welcome to NFT/hydroponics setup?

What should I do? Can you help me out and help me to solve this dilemma..?

If ima go and try to solve the problem with hydrogen peroxide? Do I have to wait till the bacteria or fungi is defeated and then transplant em to NFT or can I transplant em and then fight the bacteria/fungi?

I consider the planting to soil because soil has all kinds of microorgans and I thought it wouldn’t matter in soil am I wrong?

TLDR: Transplanted Jiffys to rockwool amd they started to grow algae… So can I transplant ’em moldy smelling things to NFT or do I need to fight the problem and then transplant ’em? Or maybe better solution is to transplant ’em to soil?

Please grow bros solve this for me and help me out!!??

Thank you for the answers and giving time and solution to my problem…

 

[Old Piney]

I‘m an out door in the ground organic grower, so I’m certianly not an expert on this. My indoor growing is límited to just veg using soiless mix and Peter’s plant Food to winter mother plants ,take cuttings and starting seeds. What I can tell you from my experience is there is a big difference between mold and algae . Algae is a green plant and in this case is just a weed . I always get it growing on the soil and I don‘t beleave it hurts any thing. On the other hand mold,mildew,or visible fungus I would be concerned about . I beleave growing in soil in largar pots is more forgiving than Hydro but let’s wait and see what the indoor experts think. Edit….. I wouldn’t use hydrogen peroxide in the meantime