Bleach to nutrient solution.

Hey,

soon I want to start my first DWC grow. I have read that people lr use bleach to keep their nutrient solution sterile and I find that a cool way. My only worry is that if I add the diluted bleach water mixture to the nutrient solution, the bleach might react with the fertilizer in the rez and forms a toxic gas called chlorine gas which is verx harmful to humas. Am I overreacting or are there some dangers and precautions I should look for?

regards
FlorianGrower
 

amneziaHaze

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Depends on nutes you use.but yes you can create that.small quantity but it will remove bleach from your res
 
So, as far as you guys tell me, there should be no problem to make a bleach batch with like 500ppm and add 1 liter of it my 100 liter nutrient solution to achieve 5ppm. my base chloride ppm is almost 0 btw. No worries of gas right? Is there a right order to add the nutrients/bleach? I am using GHE (T. A.) TriPart for hardwater, GHE CalMg, GHE Silicate and GHE PH-.
 

Tolerance Break

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One time I added pool shock to a res with h2o2 in it. The reaction was this gray smoke like color rolling building in the res and I thought "oh fuck, it's about to explode" and then I ran away and googled until I was calm again.
 

rkymtnman

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So, as far as you guys tell me, there should be no problem to make a bleach batch with like 500ppm and add 1 liter of it my 100 liter nutrient solution to achieve 5ppm. my base chloride ppm is almost 0 btw. No worries of gas right? Is there a right order to add the nutrients/bleach? I am using GHE (T. A.) TriPart for hardwater, GHE CalMg, GHE Silicate and GHE PH-.
i'd be careful running at 5ppm. that's the upper threshold for safe level
 
i'd be careful running at 5ppm. that's the upper threshold for safe level
because of the plants or because of my health?

yea i'd start with 5ppm like 2 days before i plant them into the netpots and then add 3 ppm weekly to keep the bacteria away

btw is there a list of the optimal amounts of nutrients cannabis needs with R/O water in hydro?
 
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