root rot!!

[seaflo]

Weed, good advise. If you would ever have to battle root rot, what is your formula for treatment of it?

 

[Weedhound]

The stuff you use IS pricey......but my hydro man raves about it and says its the best out there.

Like d4, I'm into additives and supplements. No matter how hard I try, as I said, mistakes (power outages is our biggie here) WILL occur. Who was it that said life is what happens while you're busy making plans? I can't possibly plan for everything. Shits' going to happen and that's a fact. That's where my "safety nets" come in and before them I would just get messes. Now I'm worry free even when I DO make mistakes (which I do ALL the time.)



I must say that my hydro man (who's VERY good) would agree with d4 that root products WILL grow you better plants.

 

[Weedhound]

Hey Seaflo......I've discovered two different ways. One is the peroxide mentioned above which I have used successfully. The other treatment that my hydro man recommends is root excaaulater (wrong spelling but it's the stuff d4 uses) or Rhizotonic to treat root rot and using Cannazym (or a similar zyme product although my hydro guy claims Cannazym is the best) for preventing it. That's from the CANNA line of products. I asked him about hydrozyme once (since I use that brand for my fertilizing) but he told me he thought Cannazym was the best one in its class so I went with that and like d4 it makes a WHOLE lot of difference.

 

[d4twamp]

Check out theses roots, this is what Roots Excelurator and Oreganics XL (yes they are the right spellings of these 2 products) has done for me... I have no affiliation with either of these companies, but I know I won't grow without them in the future....

It all depends on if you want to settle for sub par produce or the give your plants the chance to be all they can be...

In the end you as mother nature in an Indoor ecosystem, have to make the final decision...

 

[Hydro-Soil]

Check out theses roots, this is what Roots Excelurator and Oreganics XL (yes they are the right spellings of these 2 products) has done for me... I have no affiliation with either of these companies, but I know I won't grow without them in the future....

Those look just like MY roots! (At least before this last duct-tape no budget grow I ran. LOL)

I can't say it enough. If you take the time initially and set everything up correctly, you'll get results like that every time, without spending extra cash and adding more variables to consider.

Definitely nice root prOn though

 

[minds_I]

Hello all,

Just as a side note of H2O2.

I use H2O2 with every feeding/watering of my soil plants at 20ml/l with excellent results in plant growth.

I just add just prior to pouring in the pot.

minds_I

 

[libby]

Always had concerns over the bubbl1ng 1n other peoples bubblers, the foam1ng. when 1 used to v1s1t the local sh1tworks( honest, and very 1ntrest1ng) when 1 enqu1red about the ser1ous foam1ng at the treated water release, was told 1t's so full of nutr1ents

1 feel a bubbly top 1s too r1ch

 

[Weedhound]

Always had concerns over the bubbl1ng 1n other peoples bubblers, the foam1ng. when 1 used to v1s1t the local sh1tworks( honest, and very 1ntrest1ng) when 1 enqu1red about the ser1ous foam1ng at the treated water release, was told 1t's so full of nutr1ents

1 feel a bubbly top 1s too r1ch

It seems odd to me too libby........I've never gotten a foam like that in my grows but I don't use the same products he does either so couldn't be sure.

 

[d4twamp]

None of our Hydro has Foamed up ever...

 

[bron2k]

wow i thought my thread would be dead by now. thanks for all the help guys it looks like it's recovering now. i'll have some pics soon. hey d4twamp, my never did either but add some zone and hygrozyme and you'll get some foam. i'm running hygrozyme with h202 right now and no more foam. does anyone know if h202 evaporate over a few days? do i need to add it every couple days or every water change? thanks again guys..

 

[d4twamp]

wow i thought my thread would be dead by now. thanks for all the help guys it looks like it's recovering now. i'll have some pics soon. hey d4twamp, my never did either but add some zone and hygrozyme and you'll get some foam. i'm running hygrozyme with h202 right now and no more foam. does anyone know if h202 evaporate over a few days? do i need to add it every couple days or every water change? thanks again guys..

If you add it every other day you'll be okay man...but make sure it's not gonna kill the good stuff in the Hygrozyme...We use Multizyme from House and Garden for our Zyme product...No regrets...

 

[bron2k]

hey thanks for the quick reply bro!! so it's been a couple days now. should i add more 35% h202? i don't want to over do it. my rez is about 50gal and i did 5ml/gal. so h202 does degrade after a couple days? thanks..

 

[Weedhound]

H202 degrades over about 24 hours so it should be added every other day. Store bought 3% I would use 10ml/gal every other day. Good luck.

For 35% I use 2ml/gal so you might want to go a bit less next round. Too much of the stuff CAN kill off your plants. (although I'm not sure where that line is but I remember my hydro man telling me killed some stuff off by using too much so just fyi)

You say the H202 stopped the foaming? That's pretty interesting in my opinion.

 

[bron2k]

thanks guys! no the h202 didn't stop the foaming. by not adding zone with hygrozyme together stopped the foaming.

 

[Weedhound]

ahhh...thanks for clarifying that. I was wondering but you had mentioned you traced it to a certain product. Just trying to cover all the bases.

 

[bron2k]

np bro!! thanks for all your help and time. i think ima start over since it's been a month now and probably going to take another 2 weeks before it can go to 12/12. i learned a lot from this pythium shit tho. i tried to many new additives and it back fired. i'll probably still use LK as a foliar spray and the voodoo juice and that's about it. screw everything else!! once voodoo runs out i'll probably switch to root excellurator since i heard so many good things about it. i got some grand daddy purps coming so hopefully everything is cool and i'll post some pics for you guys. should i use h202 to sterilize my equipment or physan20? from reading i think physan20 is my best bet.

 

[d4twamp]

Bronk - you can use the RE in conjunction w/ any nute line....We use it till at least the first 3 weeks of bloom...

D

 

[bron2k]

hey thanks d4! i'm going to use up my voodoo juice first and then switch to RE. what do you use for your base nutes again?

 

[d4twamp]

Bron2k This is the nute line up We use...House and Garden, Aquaflakes for recirculating hydro systems...


Here is a link to their website if you want some more info on the individual products: http://house-garden.us/products.html

Hope this helps....

later, D

 

[bron2k]

are you using 1k or 600 D4T? how much are you getting off one light? the most i ever got off one 1k is 1.5lbs. now i'm trying to get 2lbs per 1k. yes i know it's tough but i just started to recirculate my 5gal buckets and hopefully that'll help my levels to be stable. are you using 5gal buckets too? thanks..