hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
top layer of my hydrotron turning green? this normall
hydrotron turning green
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Stoner Smurf
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I know it's not uncommon, it's algae that's a growing. I know it's not a good thing, but I am pretty sure it's relatively benign. Don't take that as 100% fact because I am not exactly sure. And either way it's ugly and you don't want it, so you should try to prevent it. What kind of set up are you using?
coolbreeze13
Active Member
I've never seen algae on hydroton only on rockwool but like stoner smurf said its algae, a little h202 should help the problem
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
ebb and grow by cap and im using h202 at 7ml a gal 55 gal = 385 ml of it and its there, should I spray it on the algae direct?
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
was wondering what to cover it with, theres a bunch to cover lol, make some plastic lids?
Banditt
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anything should work, plastic lids sound good. Hell paper plates with a hole cut in the mid for your stem would probably work fine.
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
paper plates seems the simplest sweet
drgreentm
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if you are already adding h202 to res you are prably not running organic nutes so if i was you i would mix a batch of h202 and water in a spray bottle and spray the hydroton down every so often i had this on my hydroton left it for a while when i cleaned them just put them in a tote filled with water and h202 and it was gone in a few hours.
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
sweet I was wondering If I could use a spray bottle
Erdericks
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Odd that you have alge with hydroton. When your system floods does it flood over the hydroton? Does your hydroton get submerged? If so thats why you are getting alge the nutes are getting on the top of the hydroton and with the light alge grows. I am running organic nutes so I dont use h202. BUT I dont have my flood go over the hydroton, the level stays about 1/2" below the top layer of the hydroton. No Alge at all with that setup, I have no idea how much adjustment you have to your system but just an idea. Besides the h202 will resolve the problem after its gone ya might wanna fix it assuming thats the issue. Save yourself some h202 that way. Good Luck
hellraizer30
Rebel From The North
thats funny you mentioned that cuz I put small blocks under my pods, you can see them in my other thread aim I ready to 12/12 when I put them in
when I noticed the algie I guess I planted them to low anyway it was easy to fix now the flood line is 2 in under the surface Il spray with h202 and
I hope that fixes it
Ronjohn7779
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It's algae. You need to keep everything covered up from the light as much as possible. Try using a mylar reflective layer over your flooding area. Other than being an annoyance it shouldn't bother your plants.
drgreentm
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try it man im positive it will help if you are adding it to the res you will have no problems with your ladies almost impossible to overdose on h202
keep it green