DWC Root Slime Cure aka How to Breed Beneficial Microbes

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Weed0s

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hi people, sorry to be a pain but i wonder if someone reply to me to save me reading all 190 pages, where im from i cant get Aquashield,ZHO Powder or Ancient Forest anywhere :( is there anything else i can use? i can get some great white, but its £40 if i get it will it defo kill the slim? seams a waste of money if it cant fix the problem by itself. Many thanks
 
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Chopsticks33

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I know this have nothing to do with this thread but I need help on this one. my og girls are getting mad yellow leafs. its going on the fifth week flower. I havent spray it for couple week and the nut level is about 900-1100 ppm with co2 level about 1000-1400ppm. the temp is about high 80 and light are about 18 inch high 1000w hid air cool. Here is some pic.
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Heisenberg said:
Glad you found the materials you need. The only substitute for an air-pump is a waterfall. Any sort of pump which can bring the water out of the bucket and let it splash back in. Stirring will do next to nothing because the microbes are placing a large demand on oxygen.
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Thanks for the precious info. Am just waiting for delivery of all + ait bubbler! I am not running DWC, I was running autopot but have now disconnected the system after the phytium and slime problem .... am in coco/perlite .... do I just handwater the magic solution? How often do I repeat? Or it would be better to soak the pots in bubbling solution for a few hours eheheh .......
 
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jubiare

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Weed0s said:
hi people, sorry to be a pain but i wonder if someone reply to me to save me reading all 190 pages, where im from i cant get Aquashield,ZHO Powder or Ancient Forest anywhere :( is there anything else i can use? i can get some great white, but its £40 if i get it will it defo kill the slim? seams a waste of money if it cant fix the problem by itself. Many thanks
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I got rootgrow off ebay for the myco fungi, essence by plant magic at a hydro store for the bacillus + trichoderma and EWC I already had ..... you must try to source some EWC somewhere on the net perhaps? it's the important ingredient according to the master of thiis thread!
 
sterner

sterner

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this was probably asked in this thread somewhere and i did skim through it but didn't see it.

is the tea safe to use in a bubble cloner? i would think it would be, but i am just checking.

thanks

-Sterner


edit: i found my answer. it's fine to use
 
Heisenberg

Heisenberg

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sterner said:
this was probably asked in this thread somewhere and i did skim through it but didn't see it.

is the tea safe to use in a bubble cloner? i would think it would be, but i am just checking.

thanks

-Sterner


edit: i found my answer. it's fine to use
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Indeed, but it's best to add some sort of housing to your clone water, as the microbes normally colonize the roots. They need a place to live until roots form, or else they will be limited in function.

My solution was to switch to a shallow water cloner and incorporate hydroton, as described ~page 69.
 
crazyhazey

crazyhazey

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i feel dumb for laughing when you wrote page 69 haha but anyway, i soak all my peat pellets in diluted compost tea, i noticed some of the clones rooted a lot faster than the ones i didnt do it to so it helps for sure.
 
SHABOOGY1

SHABOOGY1

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quick question,,, i just changed my res and had to add ph down,,, should i wait to add bennies or not??? i know this question was answered but i cant find it and reading this whole thread from start to finish again is not in my future plans :lol:... Thanks in advance!!!
 
Heisenberg

Heisenberg

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SHABOOGY1 said:
quick question,,, i just changed my res and had to add ph down,,, should i wait to add bennies or not??? i know this question was answered but i cant find it and reading this whole thread from start to finish again is not in my future plans :lol:... Thanks in advance!!!
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The effects of PH adjuster on microbes in a DWC is negligible. Sorry I didn't see your question until now.
 
king.kush420

king.kush420

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Hello, Very informative thread, thank you.

I've got a couple of questions.
At my local hydro store, they have ZHO - Root Inculant. is that the "ZHO powder" you are talking about?
And, Do the type of nutes you are using matter when using these benes? I'm using BC pro blend. on the back it does say it's a mixture of synthetic and organic.
 
superjoint

superjoint

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I have cured some nasty slime with just tea made from EWC,molasses,Aquashield.I know the myco is great,I just used what I had and it worked fine
 
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superjoint

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Heisenberg---I know you said not feed the bennies in the res,but what about half strength bud candy,I never added it back to the res after I cured the slime,any thoughts?I m going to use it this time around,but I dont have any slime ,and will be using the tea from the start,Ive been getting slime in a ebb and flow with a chiller,but havent had any issues with the tea so far
 
Heisenberg

Heisenberg

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If you have a well established beneficial colony and the slime is long gone, your res can probably tolerate a little organic material, but not much. Slime is a natural result of organics breaking down in a DWC. If you do decide to do it, don't do it for the benefit of the bennies. They can simply be replaced, and no matter how well you feed them, they will become less and less diverse as time goes on. Any organic stuff you want to add for the plant's benefit can be added to the tea and broken down before you put it in the res. So there really is no need to add organics to the res.
 
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