300w x2 LED DWC Pure Indica - First Grow

No I think I'm gonna throw one together though. I'm 3 weeks into flower.

Edit: it's been an interesting journey.....

Day 27
7-10-2017 : 8:00 pm

Todays update I don't have numbers for instead just gonna talk about whats going on. I have root slime back again, and I do not believe it is root rot. Instead I am leaning towards Cyanobacteria. This is an algae that causes a slime on the roots.

I ordered the stuff to make a tea to treat it as read at: https://www.rollitup.org/t/dwc-root-slime-cure-aka-how-to-breed-beneficial-microbes.361430/


Currently I have my plants in a temporary res as I took apart the old one to clean and install my aqua chiller. Hoping to finally get ahead of this mess as its stressing me and my ladies out....

Oh yeah, in the temp res I am running 5gallons of water with 15ml of 35% h2o2 for the next 24 hours.

I've never used the35% so I don't know whatssafe levels withthat. But peroxide does wonders!

Kontraband81 said:

Day 11 (mini update)
6-24-2017 : 1:20pm

I plan on changing the res out today for the first time. I made up 7 gallons of ph 5.85 water with 1010 ppm nutes. This is the 210 base from the tap water and 800 from the nutes.
The nute schedule calls for 900 to 1100 nutes on week 2 but I am going light as to not spike it as much. I'll probably raise the nutes up on the top offs.

Will do a more in depth update when lights are on later.

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Hehe he says he's going "light" on those little girls

JohnDoeTho said:

Hehe he says he's going "light" on those little girls

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Yeah this was before I realized the schedule was so wrong

Hehe

Day 27
7-11-2017 : 5:30 pm

Again no numbers for the day. Plants have been sitting in 5 gallons of h2o2 water for about 24 hours now still no added nutrients. I have their main res cleaned and sterilized (I hope). I installed the aqua chiller that I had bought and hadn't installed since I had already started the grow. I never really had high temperature res before it mostly stayed between 68 to 71f. I plan on keeping at it 65 static with the chiller so hopefully that helps.

I also purchased a stronger air pump:
EcoPlus Commercial Air 1 - 1 to 18 Watts 793 GPH

I ordered the supplies to make an EWC tea but it will be about a week before that comes in the mail. In the time being I am going to let the plants stay in their temporary h2o2 res for now.

My plan of action is:
Tomorrow install the new pump + air stones and add in ph water + hydro guard. I am going to let that run for 24 hours and let the hydroguard inoculate the res before adding the plants back in. Probably thursday night I'll move the plants back into their permanent home and start adding nutrients again. In a week when I get the EWC tea probably make up a batch and either a.) add it to the existing res if it looks clean still or b.) change the res out and make up a new one with the bennie tea.

Feel free to chime in if you think I should do anything different or if you think I am doing it right.

I am using this as my guide:
https://www.rollitup.org/t/dwc-root-slime-cure-aka-how-to-breed-beneficial-microbes.361430/

those two new pieces are really gonna bring your setup to the next level! But keep in mind each component makes up one system. And even though these upgrades sound like the right direction, your operation can only run as good as your weakest link.

Also I'm hoping to go Bennie free after I hook up my chiller so maybe hold off on your tea brewing and see if you even need it.

Side note from what I've read the majority of peroxide is gone after about 12 hour. I could be wrong but that's the rule of thumb I've gone by for re-adding my bennies or redosing of peroxide

The extra oxygen molecule is very unstable. So basically it gets used ASAP.

Also prepare your self.....this air pump is a different beast. Your not going to want to set it on the floor. Hang from bungee cord to reduce vibrations and noise.

JohnDoeTho said:

Side note from what I've read the majority of peroxide is gone after about 12 hour. I could be wrong but that's the rule of thumb I've gone by for re-adding my bennies or redosing of peroxide

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Thanks for the advice, do you think I should add more h2o2 now then?

Well....a member I respect very much and has helped me out says once every three days. I wouldn't feel confident enough in my own success to rule out his idea.

If I recall your actually using the potent 30+% stuff right? I used very low doses of the highly diluted 3%. Like 4 tsp to each bucket.

So I'd only stick to my advice if you were using such low doses. I think he advised a much higher dose and if you used his dose I wouldn't try my timeline really.

It's possible my peroxide wasn't gone but my additions of 4tsp was still below the safe limit. You know what I mean?

Kontraband81 said:

Yeah this was before I realized the schedule was so wrong

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Yea I know all to well.....I followed the directions on the bottle. Who knew their directions would lead to death of plant! I figured it would be in their best interest to keep my
Plant healthy and needing more nutrient!

I have that air pump, hung it with a bungee cord like someone above suggested and it's pretty quiet in the scheme of things.

dstroy said:

I have that air pump, hung it with a bungee cord like someone above suggested and it's pretty quiet in the scheme of things.

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When hung from a bungee very quiet. Bouncing around your floor or transferring the vibrations to what ever is mounted to is another story. I mean mines a little bit more then twice as powerful so I'm assuming a little bit, but it's the same design just scaled down.