Root Rot Can Be Beaten

In the past 2 months a friend and I have experienced root rot, we both had it in different degrees and we both went different routes to deal with it.

He had it bad, when he first realized it was root rot nearly all of his roots were covered in it. He went to the grow shop and got H2O2 and changed his water out using it in the next batch. It got worse, almost all of his roots that were sticking out of the net pots died. The air stones were getting clogged up by the slime, and the slime completely covered the top of the water. We did an emergency water change, rinsing the roots off in the shower. He started adding H2O2 every other day. The next two water changes he dunked the roots in a stronger concentration of H2O2 while I sanitised the buckets.

Now with the root rot almost completely beaten back, his plants are not merely surviving as so many people said was the best outcome, but growing nice buds. His leaves are showing no signs of deficiencies. His roots balls are beginning to get big again.

I was lucky and noticed it earlier than he did. I saw it on the tips of the roots of most of my plants, ran one water change with H2O2, then switched back to aquashield and earth juice mycorrhizae. It has almost all gone away and I only lost one small plant from it.

I'm writing this for all of the people that have root rot and are feeling down. If you have unlimited funds than it will probably be more profitable to kill off your plants and start new (depending on how close to harvest), but if you are like me and you are planning on this harvest to pay for supplies next harvest you can still win.

I have a similar story, my DWC box got root rot, all 5 plants were infected 1 of them in paticular is worst I had to remove 90% of its roots. I changed water, remove those brown colour roots and those covered in slimes, use H2O2 after water change and continue for a few days, use Pythoff after the H2O2 treatment. Now 2 of them is flowering, and the other 2 is 2 foot tall. 1 turn out to be male so it went to the bin. I guess the plant pack a lot more storage of nute inside with hydro that it can recover with is storage, a few leaves will die but it is definitely beatable. However, it will delay your grow for about 2 weeks.

He reminded me that I forgot to mention that after everything seemed to be fixed the first time he went to the grow shop to pick up some calmag and the guy recommended an organic brand, he used it and the next day he went to show his roots off to me and they were all covered with what looked like hamburger fat. We think the organic matter in the calmag messed with the peroxide and that is where it came from. He changed back to chemical calmag and everything has been gravy ever since.