BakingcoOkiez
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Jw wondering if this is root rot. I have some nutes that do make the roots a little brown but I'm starting to get worried.
Is this root rot?!?
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hondagrower420
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Looks slimy. Do the roots feel slimy or like rope fiber?
If roots are slimy and just smushes together instead of being fiber like.
Then yes.
If roots are slimy and just smushes together instead of being fiber like.
Then yes.
bryan oconner
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water is to HOT ! get that temp down now or lose that plant . use ice packs or ice cubes . cold pop cold beer . what ever it takes . or plant it in soil right now .
GOLDBERG71
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I've never seen a picture like that before.
BakingcoOkiez
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I knew this day would come. Just dropped one 16oz frozen water bottle to each bucket. I prepared them a month ago just incase. Running some great white Benny's also. Hope that should help a bit. Checked the temp and it's about 69-70 right now. Would you guys recommend me using hydrogen peroxide to clean up the roots a bit or just run the bottles with Benny's?
Olive Drab Green
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Wouldn't ice be too cold and slow the plant's metabolism down to flatline?
Clorox bleach at 2 or 3 drops per gallon
BakingcoOkiez
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Would i run the bleach or h202 with all my nutes?
Budley Doright
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I just got finished an epic battle with the rot and tried bleach, H2O2, and pool shock. They all kind of helped but didn't cure it completely. I added a chiller to get temps down to 65-66 and started using hydroguard and now I have this 3 weeks after cut 
not saying you should use hydroguard but it works for my setup and I have just switched to OregonismXL to see if it works and it's cheaper 
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not saying you should use hydroguard but it works for my setup and I have just switched to OregonismXL to see if it works and it's cheaper .Attachments
THE KONASSURE
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regular ph checks and adjustments
Lots of air into the water, plus put your air pump where it`ll get nice cool air
Preconditioning and storing your water before adding it to the res can really help
Also a pump that drops the water back into the tank helps a lot gets air into it
Better to stop it in the 1st place
normally your ph go`s up and then the rot starts if you can keep it down and get it stable then normally the bennies can establish but EC is important too and keeping the N levels down when you run bennies even just using PK and water you can end up with a lot of Nitrogen being made, Nitrogen is normally the cause even more so than sugars sometimes...
Lots of air into the water, plus put your air pump where it`ll get nice cool air
Preconditioning and storing your water before adding it to the res can really help
Also a pump that drops the water back into the tank helps a lot gets air into it
Better to stop it in the 1st place
normally your ph go`s up and then the rot starts if you can keep it down and get it stable then normally the bennies can establish but EC is important too and keeping the N levels down when you run bennies even just using PK and water you can end up with a lot of Nitrogen being made, Nitrogen is normally the cause even more so than sugars sometimes...
Budley Doright
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The funny thing with my setup was nothing changed except temps got higher than normal due to hot fall here. I run sprayers with no standing water and timed so lots of O2 I would have thought
. But lower Res temps seemed to be the key and new plants are doing well.bryan oconner
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I got my hydro cloner down to 45f before in the winter lol . they could care less still happy suggested 60f best temp my opinion I like every thing cold in the roots from my experience that's what they like in the water and it will be white and health and very long roots . can fill a 10 gallon pot like that. no nutrients do not stain roots lol . unless you have color added total bull shit then it could be possible .
Budley Doright
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When I fill it my well is 54 so it takes a couple days to get to 65 and then stays there. I could turn it down and no issues hitting 60. You hear many differing opinions on temp but honestly 60 is the lowest I've heard recommended. Not saying it doesn't work though, just an observation is all.
http://www.growweedeasy.com/root-rot scroll down a bit
Budley Doright
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Great read and one of the first ones I read ...... after trying H2O2 and bleach lol.
THE KONASSURE
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You know I was thinking of a new method the other day
Take a very large res with a big airpump mix up your res just right, pipe the res to your root zone chamber via a huge pipe on the top of the res and have an outlet at the bottom of your rootzone tote
then add some wetting agent
you`d get big time soapy bubble going to the plant all day long and you could run that off or use it to water another plant or just recirculate it back to the tank
never seen anyone using bubbles like that but I know you can make the water foam in that way easy just pipe it to the roots and they should love it right ?
or did I forget something important was really baked when that idea came to me, just wanted a set up that has a res and a root zone separate but just uses an airpump and was not just gravity fed
Take a very large res with a big airpump mix up your res just right, pipe the res to your root zone chamber via a huge pipe on the top of the res and have an outlet at the bottom of your rootzone tote
then add some wetting agent
you`d get big time soapy bubble going to the plant all day long and you could run that off or use it to water another plant or just recirculate it back to the tank
never seen anyone using bubbles like that but I know you can make the water foam in that way easy just pipe it to the roots and they should love it right ?
or did I forget something important was really baked when that idea came to me, just wanted a set up that has a res and a root zone separate but just uses an airpump and was not just gravity fed
I posted that for the guys that think roots can't be stained from the nutrients there sitting in 24hrs a day.