Help/Advice Needed Please

I attempted 3 times to get the sensei ph perfect line to work in a sterile res and never had good results. Your a better man than I if you got it to work. Always had rot issues. But I am not able to keep res temps down.

i don't think you had mold, just root rot. coloring could be some combination of everything in your res.
as you learned, rockwool sucks. use rapid rooters or some other peat based starter

and when you added the peroxide, did you pour some some of your peroxide water from the top to make sure you got your RW soaked with it too?

also sounds like the RW gave some stem rot too.

rkymtnman said:

i don't think you had mold, just root rot. coloring could be some combination of everything in your res.
as you learned, rockwool sucks. use rapid rooters or some other peat based starter

and when you added the peroxide, did you pour some some of your peroxide water from the top to make sure you got your RW soaked with it too?

also sounds like the RW gave some stem rot too.

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AN said just use a chiller and microbes because the effect of peroxide on the ingredients in the sensi formula aren't compatible. The sensi formula has additivs and it's probably the interaction with amino acids.

PissingNutes said:

AN said just use a chiller and microbes because the effect of peroxide on the ingredients in the sensi formula aren't compatible. The sensi formula has additivs and it's probably the interaction with amino acids.

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if that's true, then i'd switch nutes instead of buying a $300 chiller.

to tackle a full on root rot situation, i'd take peroxide or chlorine vs bacteria to fix it ASAP.

rkymtnman said:

if that's true, then i'd switch nutes instead of buying a $300 chiller.

to tackle a full on root rot situation, i'd take peroxide or chlorine vs bacteria to fix it ASAP.

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I'm not rushing to set up a chiller but Peroxyde isn't free; a chiller increases yields and peroxide lowers yields so not interested in using it until I may have no choice. For now my AC keeps everything much cool and I use EnzymesKomplete to sanitize stuff growing in soilless but will do one DWC just to see. Also looking into using Megacrop 2.0 in the res and foliar feed Sensi to see how minimizing precipitation or incompatible chemicals by having root solution and foliar solution.

PissingNutes said:

a chiller increases yields and peroxide lowers yields

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not true . healthy roots increases yields. big roots=big fruits

rkymtnman said:

not true . healthy roots increases yields. big roots=big fruits

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I suppose it's a fine line, as a noob i'm likely to see better results with a chiller than peroxide.

I haven't dealt with root rot, the chiller question came up because I called AN to figure out why my PH wasn't holding in a tiny res.

PissingNutes said:

I suppose it's a fine line, as a noob i'm likely to see better results with a chiller than peroxide.

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you can still get rot with a chiller. it just makes it harder to get

PissingNutes said:

I haven't dealt with root rot, the chiller question came up because I called AN to figure out why my PH wasn't holding in a tiny res.

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a chiller's best feature is that there is more Dissolved Oxygen in your water at 65F vs 75F.

I've gotten root rot with a chiller. If you had it you'll have a hard time keeping it away no matter what you do from my experience. I use a big mix of organic nutrition and this second grow, with beneficials and a chiller I did not run into problems yet.
Don't ever use rockwool. Change water every week. Make sure your res is big enough for your plants. Here is what my second attempt looks like at week 2 flower. Its a different experience growing with things just right.