Botanicare Hydroguard works great but.....

shawnery said:

I'd be careful we don't use it to long. It is so concentrated that the chace of using it all before it goes bad must be pretty bad.

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ill probably just buy the smallest bottle every few grows, they even sell the 16oz bottle at home depot for like $10. Its so concentrated youll likely throw most of it away since youll only need a few ml.
By time this grow is over, ill have used most of the gallon of hydroguard I bought which was still $45 as part of a bulk order from one of the big online supply stores. Its like $75 a gallon at the local grow stores.

Heres another thread with a bunch of discussion on it.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/fixing-root-rot-hydroguard-v-southern-ag-garden-friendly-fungicide.947857/

rkymtnman said:

i did sterile for about 5 years. then switched over to southern ag. each way works great. this is easier i think even though sterile is easy too. lol.

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It is. I used a product called ZONE from Dutch Master and had absolutely no complaints. Was away from growing for a few years and bought a bottle and it looked and smelled nothing like the original. I used it anyway for a short while until I discovered the film company Fuji had purchased Dutch Master. I immediately lost trust in the product and started looking for alternatives and arrived at the beneficial's.

Hot Diggity Sog said:

It is. I used a product called ZONE from Dutch Master and had absolutely no complaints. Was away from growing for a few years and bought a bottle and it looked and smelled nothing like the original. I used it anyway for a short while until I discovered the film company Fuji had purchased Dutch Master. I immediately lost trust in the product and started looking for alternatives and arrived at the beneficial's.

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zone was my first product. it smelled like chlorine and it supposedly had copper in it to help strip the roots to uptake the chlorine.

then they quit making it. and then fuji bought them i thought. timeline may be off. lol. then figured out hth pool shock was just as good and cheaper than dirt.

but yeah, southern ag won't do you wrong at all.

Hot Diggity Sog said:

That sounds like a well oiled machine. I'm not at that point and am doing water changes still. I manually add 1 gallon 2 or 3 times a day and was just wondering if I should be adding hydroguard or not. Right now when I mix up a fresh batch of nutes, I put in 20 ml of HG for 10 gallons of water but then like I said, am adding 2 to 3 gallons more water daily.

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It took some trial and error to get it dialed in. But weekly dose of hydroguard for full system volume + 66F + sprayer waterfalls have it doing great. The megacrop may have something to do with not having to change it too.
I put 30 gallons in my barrel on friday and it was nearly empty by yesterday.

SLF 100 >>>

Hot Diggity Sog said:

@redzi - Did not mean to hijack your thread. I in fact just ordered a jug of Southern from Amazon.

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Now if I were talking about a specific strain maybe I would consider it rude but here I am just glad for info...was going to drive 40 miles round trip just to get a gallon from the closest h-shop that I trust. Will try the Southern ag. I think the only reason I got away with not using HG for last few weeks is that I have been using Recharge...has the needed spores and something to munch on. The mold count around here is always at least 1000 (per cubic meter, used by those that have allergies)

Bacillus Amyloliquefaciens is in Hydroguard and Southern AG which states it is a fungicide. So I googled difference between fungus and bacteria and this is the answer: Fungi are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms, while bacteria are single-celled prokaryotes. The cells of fungi have nuclei that contain the chromosomes and other organelles, such as mitochondria and ribosomes. Bacteria are much smaller than fungi, do not have nuclei or other organelles and cannot reproduce sexually. Putting in the order today.

Started using Hydroguard 3 years ago with good results in my RDWC system. Began using GFF last year full strength @ 1ml/10gal solution. Works very well and as a bonus, GFF does a great job at keeping PM at bay in my outdoor garden. The Smokies are a bitch keeping PM under control.