Hey guys! First of all let me thank everyone that contributed to the wealth of knowledge in this thread, possibly the best thread I have ever came across and it forsure made me kick all the soil outside and keep it there for good,
I have been reading and building and fine tuning my systems over the past few months and am finally getting very close to popping some of my good genetics, but of course I would not be so dumb as to run amazing new genetics on a system that I have no experience with so I currently have some bagseed running to iron out the kinks, so with that being said let me start from the beginning...
I grew in soil both outdoors and indoors for many years with decent results, after abrupt changes in my life and a very quick unexpected move I broke everything down and put everything up into storage for the past year or so... The itch is back, so I have set up 3 new systems practically all based off this thread with help from superstoners threads, (same as everyone) with the water in my area testing at 400+ppm and almost 8.0ph the first thing I did before even building my systems was get a nice reverse osmosis system installed to provide all the water for my grow. The RO system is working as it should and I am getting roughly 10ppm.
So now that I got that out of the way I will start with my concerns and the reason which I am making this post so lengthy and not just rambling questions demanding answers because I am already anticipating the "search bar does wonders" answer and well I have read just about everything I can on the pros and cons of RO water, proper reservoir conditions and practices and also have a good understanding of nutrients and plant biology, but I am running into problems while doing what I believed to be almost everything correctly, so here it goes....
RO WATER
BOTANICARE KIND NUTRIENTS
LIQUID KARMA
PURE BLEND PRO TEA
BOTANICARE PH DOWN
stacked vegger system
REZ TEMPS NEVER GO ABOVE 66 degrees
No airstones/pumps
I got root rot, atleast I'm 99% sure I do, butttt it isn't like all the pictures online (yet) it is minor and only effecting part of the roots on very young plants... Maybe 2 weeks in veg, as soon as I realized what this was, (this morning) I put all the plants in the bathtub with water and some h2o2 (3%) I then rebuilt my vegger (was going to anyhow) I believe and still am hoping it was caused because the lower tub of my veg unit was one of the grey ones with black lids which I did not realize let light in until I was reading up on brown slime algae. So I rebuilt my vegger with the new strongbox style tubs (black w yellow lids) and painted my top lid black, I mixed a new nutrient solution and added 10mls of the 3% h2o2 per gallon along with the base and grow of my nutrients. I practically cut all the roots off the one plant just to see if it can recover and the others ones I left alone and will see how they recover leaving the infected roots tangled with the good roots, so I'm very sorry for the lengthy post but I am trying to figure out how to stop this from occurring, the reason I'm suspecting brown slime is because of the slimey feel my pump and hose had when I changed everything today and the fact that all the other environmental conditions are very good.
Here are my questions
1. I am running my RO water into a 55 gallon storage tank with a float valve; this water is not being used very fast and will be stored for upwards to a month once the 55 gallons is totally full, seeing as I am still in early growth stages with very few plants I'm not using near that much water.... Soooo is it possible all the water that I am storing already has brown slime algae? Is there a proper way to store RO water other then in a lightproof container such as a 55 gallon drum with a lid? Should I add anything to the stored water to prevent bad bacteria growth?
2. I understand I should not add anything organic to the Rez until I get this problem under control, but I have already added KIND GROW and KIND BASE and h2o2 to the new nutrient solution after bathing the plants in the bathtub in just h2o and h2o2 (3%) should I change the Rez again tomorrow and add only water and peroxide?
3. I HAVE ORDERED HYDROGUARD,
In the future do you guys think I will be safe using stored RO water running HYDROGUARD,LIQUID KARMA, PURE BLEND PRO TEA, and botanicare kind nutrients ?
4. Worst comes to worst should I toss all the plants in my vegger in the trash to completely get rid of the rotting material, bleach scrub everything and start new fresh with the above recipe ?
Thanks in advance and I'm very sorry for the lengthy reply I just am so aggravated, just when you think you've taken all the precautionary actions and gotten your environment control dialed in to prevent problems (high rez temps, high humidity, high room temps, dirty city water) bam there's the brown slime. Sorry it's late I will update with some pics in the morning. Please help me out guys.