Good bleech scrub down or h2o2 mix should work good.
Because slime is easily controlled with the tea, Dwc is an awesome system to run.. rapid root growth and hardly any start up costs.
Cant you build those things easy for a fraction of the cost, if your garden is large enough might be worth looking into.
My post wasnt toward buying or building one its what hiesinbergs opion on brewing in a system
When adding tea for the first time in a res with a outbreak of slime, it will apear to get worse beforeSo after I treated my dwc w/the tea it seems as if it has gotten worse. In one unit, there is now an increased layer of clear gunk/snotty material on the roots where before it was just brown. What has me even more curious is that in another unit which I poured the tea in, there was very minimal slime and it has gotten much worse. I'm preparing to totally clean out each reservoir with bleach and trying again. Also, the hydroton and some of the rockwool now has some sort of moldy blue/green material growing on it.
What are the bennies eating? are you using sweet or molasses?
Hello NZgrowah....
Thanks. My plan thus far is that there is so much debris and dead roots floating around that I plan on just doing a complete sterilization and clean out. This includes the roots themselves. What do you guys think about using diluted 29% h202 to spray on the roots and the surrounding hydroton, flushing it out, getting rid of any dead stuff, and them retreating it to the tea. Thoughts?
Sounds like it does help. Im confused when you say bennys though. What are those?
I will give DWC another go after reading this!