https://www.rollitup.org/hydroponics-aeroponics/327967-bleach-instead-h2o2.html
My situation was never as bad as yours but an aquarium chiller and h202 did not solve my problems, only suppressed it for a while.
Bleach is normal in your local water. read the thread above. It saved my plants. If you would like to see what my plants look like after a dose of bleach them check the thread in my sig. (last post)
All you need is bleach @ 2ppm for an initial dose which is what is in the water anyways then drop down to .5 constant. Some chem ferts have chlorine added into the solution. Its been used by commercial hydroponic greenhouses over 4ppm for years.
If you use organics you must use bennies. Since bennies colonize the root zone of the plant having a detached reservoir like an ebb and flow is hard to grow in. Having a system like a drip feed where the nutrients drip through a rockwool slab acts as a natural bio filter so then bennies can have a large area to kill the bad shit. WHen I started using organics in my ebb and flow, the plants seemed okay because the bennies were at the roots but could not thrive in the reservoir.
Peace
i deffinatly want to try this. i mean bleach instead of H2O2. iv read through the thread, and a few links that were posted in the thread.
im a bit confused on what doseage i would use though.
im thinking 6 drops of bleach per gal.
but fatman made a post in a link from that thread, saying..... "As can be seen very little is added to the water. It works out to adding 1 ml or 2 ml of the diluted bleach to every 6.6 gallons of water. You can dilute the bleach to waht ever concentration you want that makes its use the easiest. AT 1/3 third strength one teaspoon of chlorox bleach is good for 16.5 to 33 gallons of nutrient water. Typically one starts with 1 teaspoon (diluted) per 16.5 gallons then every two days add 1 teaspoon (diluted) for every 33 gallons to replaced used through oxidation reactions and by outgassed chlorine"
is the dosage he mentioned for clorox bleach, or a product he is speaking of in the rest of the post?
and also, about using the organic micro-nutes. i have another idea... haha
could i turn my pump off, and pour a soulution of the nutes straight into the net pots sitting in the system, and run the drain tube to a seperate 5 gal bucket? would the solution be in contact with the root zone long enough to be beneficial?
i really just dont have cash to run out and get a better brand of nutes ATM, but really want this grow to be successful.
thanks for the link, and info JeffersonBud =]
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