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Ebb&flo99

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So I have 4-5gl buckets filled with 3 GL of nute solution. Flora series 3part. I used my well water for the first time and it stunk like sulfur. They sat in a ebb&flow table for 3 days. So I think the rockwool got contaminated. So I ditched the table and went dwc. I got some brown slime build up on the roots. I soaked them in a h202 solution for about 30 mins then ran running water to flush the rockwool. Washed and soaked hydroton with/in Ph'ed water at 5.5. Reset plants into clean hydroton an fresh nutes at half strength. I've been folier spraying with sm-90. Here is how they look 24hrs later. They have slight improvement since before the major flushing/cleaning.
 

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Spanky84

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Check to see if rockwool is too damp. That can cause problems. Lot of my problems went away when I removed the rockwool and went with hydroton only.

Second, thing, start using microbe tea. It helps a lot.

Third, there seems to be a lot of people using flora series and having trouble with slime. It seems to haveto have an organic component microbes like. If nothing else helps, get some pure inorganic nutes.

Fourth, NEVER title your thread "help", it's annoying.
 

computergroove

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After having used bubble buckets then moving onto udwc I am convinced that you need to keep the water temp between 58 - 65 F at all times. You might have rotting roots. Slime is eradicated with colder water. Can you show a pic of the roots?
 

Ebb&flo99

Member
Sorry about the title. As most I'm new to this. Res temp stays about 58-65 since it's in my basement. But we got a big cold front that moved in a about 2 was back and that's when all my problems started. Res temp got down to 50. Here are the roots on 2 plants as the other 2 I did not take pics of. The roots were the same size but " rotted" off down to about 3"
 

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goodgrows

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looks like root rot, i researched it and SM-90 should get your problem solved. nutrilife makes it i believe.
 

kinddiesel

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here we goo every bod y get ready. this is our first heat problem from hydro soon to be a hundred more ! . images[2].jpg
 
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