Anyone ever had Heisenburg's tea clog they're drip lines? Beenies ok in drip or not?

jin420

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Hello again running a drip-tote system and had a question about running benneficial bacteria in it. I was posting on the sticky about Heisenburg's tea and found out from another poster about nonionic surfactants. Did a little digging and there does seem to be some promise using nonionic surfactants to destroy brown-slime algae bacteria and to prevent pythium from spreading. I'm guessing it only prevents pythium from spreading because once it's in the root the plant's own immune system would be the only thing that could fight it off. Pythium goes through different stages and to spread to other roots it has a motile zoospore stage and this is where the nonionic surfactant would kill it. So if the plant can overcome the pythium already infecting it's roots the surfactant would then keep it from infecting other roots.


Gonna expirement with the nonionic surfactant but I want to try the tea too to see if there are any benefits or if it gets my roots whiter than the surfactant. I already have some aquashield and was looking to get some ancient forest humus and maybe ZHO powder. My question is with a low pressure drip system(290gph sunleaves pump) would I have a big problem with clogging? Will my system clog right up or something if I put this stuff in? Using H&G aquaflakes and drip-clean in it if that matters and no aeration of the res is being done but one drip line feeds directly to the res to keep things mixed up. My question is should I forget the ZHO powder and just use aquashield+ancient forest or just the aquashield alone? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
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