my 1st hydro grow

hey all whats up...im bout to start my 1st hydro grow (dwc), germin da seeds now...1 have acouple quick questions. 1) i live in da country & have well water with a hydrogen peroxide whole house filtration system & a water softener that uses salt & phosphoric acid, in the kitchen i have a reverse osmosis filtration system ontop of the other system (hope that makes sense to everyone). my question is should i use the RO water or can i use the "tap" water? 2) i just noticed 2 of the 3 seeds im starting out with have just sprouted should i put them in rockwood now or wait til the sprouts get a lil bigger & if so bout how big, also if i can let them get big enuff in the paper towel method im using 4 germination could i bypass the rockwool all together & just put them in the clay balls? thanx in advance

Use the kitchen water.

You could have and should have started the seed in the cubes to start with. Put them in the wet cubes asap, and put the cubes 1/2 to 2/3 down in the cups, surrounded by the hydroton rocks. Keep the cubes and rocks wet and pour water over them often, with some fractional part, like 1/4, of nutes in the water, until you see roots hit the deep water in the tank.

ok cool thanx bro...will do...this page will prolly be my journal as well

well my 1st grow didnt turn out so good, my 1st 3 plants were looking good 4 awhile considering i didnt have any nutes but in a little over a months time the never got any bigger than like 1 maybe 2 inches tall & were turning brown. finally got my nutes & brought my ppm up to 850 (didnt want to over do it with the 1st feeding) ph is now at about 5.5 & the planys have not recovered so i figured i would juststart germinating some more seeds & try again now that i have everything i need instead of before starting the grow before my nutes got here altho the asshole i ordered from didnt even mail em out til about a month & 1/2 after i ordered it. anyway its been about a week or so since i added my nutes & i am trying the lucas formula which he says he doesnt change the res out at all til flowering & i wen tto take out the mostly dead plants & seen in the water a bad white cottony like mold or something everywhere in my res all over my stone & the airline, prolly about 1 or 2 inches thick at the bottom. what the hell is this shit, how bad is it & how can i prevent it from coming back?