Know thy enemy, let's defeat THE SLIME.

Hello, everyone after months of research about the slime/pythium/cyanobacteria, There is one common belief that seems to hold true, once you have it, you have it!. This is something I can not accept, everything In life gets its foothold through a Trojan horse of sorts that no one notices. Everything has a weak spot, this is how this shit found it way in, and this is how it will find its way out.

There are 3 known effective methods against the hydro herpes:
1. EWC Tea.
2. Physan 20
3. DNF Hydro-sparkle/hydro-fungicide
But none of these fully rid your system of it, they just keep it at bay, those purple/red stems on your clones/seedlings... that's the bacteria hiding in your plants...

After all my reading, I found ONE person who got rid of it for good, as in didn't need any additives anymore and could go back to using rooting enhancers without fear. What this person described was he had a RO system go into a 50 gallon res where he held his water. he never thought much of it, as where the virus could be coming from but then he decided maybe the trace amounts of light getting into his res was where it was coming from. So he decided to disinfect everything with physan as recommended by the directions, painted his res solid black, and made absolutely sure that zero, not even a sparkle of light was getting into his RO res. know what ?.. IT WORKED!, turns out this stuff was getting its initial start by getting into his RO water and blooming from there!.

What I want to do is collect more research on what condition peoples water is in BEFORE it gets to your plants, and see how many people have things in common. Yes it is already in your water, or is it? I never had a problem with this stuff until i used RO water on old equipment. For YEARS I was clean, then out of nowhere i get this crap, it is not just in my water!

My setup:
Well water from my home into a 3-stage RO System into a Blue, 50 gallon Rubbermaid roughneck, I DO have small trace light leaks, I have a 1/2 inch hole where my air lines feed trough, my res is also about 3 feet from my vegging area, so light intensity is high.

I will be light proofing and disinfecting my res then doing a closed off experiment to see if I have it defeated.


What I want from everyone else is to describe there current water situation before it enters your nutes, please be descriptive as possible!

We can beat this!, we just have to figure out what the first trigger is.

I've learned to live with it via the magical tea. As soon as my clones are ready to transplant i'm brewing up tea for my first shot. For all the disinfecting (ugh) I do it just doesn't seem to matter. Until my plants have a large root system the slime will try to take over. I'll stop using teas after my root ball touches the bottom of my 5gal buckets.

Thus far I have determined that for me it's not in my water supply. I can use store bought RO or tap and have the exact same results. 4 days. 4 days after the roots hit the water and jelly balls start showing up. Bleached resses/new airstones/new hydroton. Hell I even suspended my rockwool while the seeds germinated and bleached out my prop tray/dome. Used a fresh syringe to take water samples for pH/ppm. Hell I even put a microfiber pad over my airpumps intake. Maybe I didn't bleach good enough? No idea and quite frankly i'm tired of bleaching shit 3 times.

My thinking is that it's in the air floating around happily until my air pump sucks it in and deposits it in a perfect environment to grow. At any rate I have decided to live along side the dreaded slime and just be jealous of the people who don't have to make teas. I hate having to brew that crap, but at least it works like a champ.

My water is just straight city water. Stinks to high hell of chlorine. My plants grow the same if it's gassed off or not (I have tested this) so I just make up my nute water on the fly.

Good luck on your quest sir!

LOL...the trick is don't get it.....Use pondzyme or StartZyme. How many times do you people have to be told this

I'm with Bucees on this one. Tea is the best method. Why fight it when you can make better use of bacteria with your plants. The symbiotic relationship that Mycohazzae has with your plants root system actually promotes healthy white roots, and in all cases I have found It WILL actually cure and prevent pythium from every outbreaking again in your grow room.

Work with nature not against it...K.I.S.S.

twistedwords said:

LOL...the trick is don't get it.....Use pondzyme or StartZyme. How many times do you people have to be told this

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Don't get it? Its like choosing not to get cancer.. I was using zone as a preventative... It didn't work..

Dirty Jerz said:

Don't get it? Its like choosing not to get cancer.. I was using zone as a preventative... It didn't work..

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did you read the post, if not re-read.

Zone is not an enzyme for ponds. Just because it doesn't have a hydro sticker on it doesn't mean it is not used in Hydro. You know what forget it, you and many others are suckers for hydro stores. Go ask a hydro store.

Didn't even hear of pondzyme until recently. Until AFTER I was infected, how dose pondzyme do in a treated system? Will it keep it at bay?