Hi all. Well I've posted 3 threads over the last couple of week wtih 3 different problems with my plants, and not had one response. Hopefully I'll have some help this time. I'm really worried.
I just checked on my plants this morning and found beige slime in my rez - mainly over the airlines and airstone. If it were on the roots, I'd think it was root rot, but the roots look good for now. I think it's on the airlines and airstone cos they vibrate a little and the water immediately next to them is a little warmer perhaps.
My plants vegged with no root problems for 2 months (they were deliberately grown slow for timing) and I now just added Hygrozyme for the first time - now 3 days later this slime - nothing on the roots yet - but I have a lot of plants grown into a coco mat so I can't check all the plants, but the roots I've seen all look white and good and they were inoculated a while back with compost tea. I have a little green algae on the mats here and there - not much. One of my rez's has some browner slime in addition to the beige.
As soon as I added the Hygro, the ph shot up from 5.8 to 6.7 within 8 hours - never had that problem before, and the plants grew really really well the last few days.
Also, the ppm's went down over 2 days from 1400 to 1100 and usually they stay steady at 1400, last night with no feeding they went from 1100 to 750. So either the Hygro is reacting to the nutes or the slime is feeding on the nutes.
I read that root rot sends your ph down - mines going up - and this happened overnight with no light. The slime in the rez doesn't smell at all
The last 2 days, I also did something else different and added the dehumidifier water back into the main water reservoir. I wonder if it could be any bacteria in that?
Did google search and have these possiblities from others with exactly the same symptoms:
yeast fermentation? (the first time I smelled Hygrozyme I though of yeast).
"Cyano Bacteria - it exhibits those qualities, slimy, gooey. The bacteria normally sticks to the reservoir and clings to air hoses, stones, power heads"
I know I could use H2O2 for root rot, but I've got beneficials.
Now that I think about it, I think there may have been a little of the slime on the airlines the last few weeks with no problems - but since the Hygrozyme it's exploded.
Any ideas?
grown in net pots with a coco and earth worm castings mix on 1/4" coco mats
3 rd day of flower
Rez temp: 69 in am to 74 max later in the day
ph right now with beige slime - 7.2
normal ph 5.8
Day temp 84, night 72 - CO2 added
Sorry about the full size pics - can't seem to upload from this page - have to cut and paste the gallery links manually
slime collected in bucket:
I just checked on my plants this morning and found beige slime in my rez - mainly over the airlines and airstone. If it were on the roots, I'd think it was root rot, but the roots look good for now. I think it's on the airlines and airstone cos they vibrate a little and the water immediately next to them is a little warmer perhaps.
My plants vegged with no root problems for 2 months (they were deliberately grown slow for timing) and I now just added Hygrozyme for the first time - now 3 days later this slime - nothing on the roots yet - but I have a lot of plants grown into a coco mat so I can't check all the plants, but the roots I've seen all look white and good and they were inoculated a while back with compost tea. I have a little green algae on the mats here and there - not much. One of my rez's has some browner slime in addition to the beige.
As soon as I added the Hygro, the ph shot up from 5.8 to 6.7 within 8 hours - never had that problem before, and the plants grew really really well the last few days.
Also, the ppm's went down over 2 days from 1400 to 1100 and usually they stay steady at 1400, last night with no feeding they went from 1100 to 750. So either the Hygro is reacting to the nutes or the slime is feeding on the nutes.
I read that root rot sends your ph down - mines going up - and this happened overnight with no light. The slime in the rez doesn't smell at all
The last 2 days, I also did something else different and added the dehumidifier water back into the main water reservoir. I wonder if it could be any bacteria in that?
Did google search and have these possiblities from others with exactly the same symptoms:
yeast fermentation? (the first time I smelled Hygrozyme I though of yeast).
"Cyano Bacteria - it exhibits those qualities, slimy, gooey. The bacteria normally sticks to the reservoir and clings to air hoses, stones, power heads"
I know I could use H2O2 for root rot, but I've got beneficials.
Now that I think about it, I think there may have been a little of the slime on the airlines the last few weeks with no problems - but since the Hygrozyme it's exploded.
Any ideas?
grown in net pots with a coco and earth worm castings mix on 1/4" coco mats
3 rd day of flower
Rez temp: 69 in am to 74 max later in the day
ph right now with beige slime - 7.2
normal ph 5.8
Day temp 84, night 72 - CO2 added
Sorry about the full size pics - can't seem to upload from this page - have to cut and paste the gallery links manually
slime collected in bucket:
