Stinky, Cloudy Reservoir water...

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wafflehouselover

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h202 is a good addition, its not really needed if your res temp is right and your pumping alot of oxygen into it already with that dual diagram pump. Just wondaring you might already have done this but just want to clearify it, have you clean your hydroton clayballs thoroughly?

And also, i just looked up flora nova its a organic base nutrient. I've never used organic nutrients before only additives such as root stimulator, hygrozyme and everytime i use these organics my res does get a bit dirty with small particles like but it doesn't bother the plants, just me because im a neat freak and have ocd so ichange my res. every often. If you go back to the flora series and use that by itself you should not have any problem with the res being cloudy unleast you don't cover it and let algae grow in it. Again h202 isn't needed its a very good additive tho.
 
FilthyFletch

FilthyFletch

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I would say make sure the hydroton is well cleaned a few times before using.If you reuse it make sure it got bleach washed.Get your ph up to 5.8 and make sure if using an all organic to do A WEEKLY RES CHANGE
 
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LumpStatus

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wafflehouse
>have you clean your hydroton clayballs thoroughly?
Yes, I have cleaned the hydroton better this time than I ever have in the past. I spent a lot of time cleaning it through a strainer (plus it was brand new out of the bag, not re-used).

I used the flora series on the last e&f and it was the same problem. You must understand that I am doing everything by the book. I have only use GH nutes, ph up/down, air, RO water and as of recently h2o2. I really don't know where to begin.


I am getting extremely frustrated...

I now have foam on the sides of my res (dirty looking nutrient foam). So I don't know what I should do. No smell, but foam is DEFINATLEY there. What would you do? Would you ditch it and go to handwatering 50 plants in a different medium? I might just do that...I hate it, but I can't stand this.

I can try to clean everything again with h2o2 and go back to the flora nutes, but I don't know if it is gonna work... It is gonna take at least 24 hours to refill the res with RO water after cleaning it, unless I tried tap water...

I just don't know. Any suggestions?
 
FilthyFletch

FilthyFletch

Mr I Can Do That For Half
Ditch the nutes you got and try fox farm and see what happens.It will let you know if its anute issue or water issue.I dont ro my water I use straight tap water through a brita water filter.
 
Serotonin

Serotonin

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I had similar problems and I added H2O2 to my res and it went away. Just dilute roughly 5mL of 35% per gallon of water. After a week I add another 2 mL until the 2 week point when I do an entire res change.

Edit... if you can, rinse the hydroton with diluted H2O2 as well, it will clean it.
 
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LumpStatus

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Nope... No slime, the plants had only been in for a few days the fist time it happened, so I don't think root rot was a factor.
 
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Puffin Afatty

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I use an ebb and flow sys too...I use the Lucas Formula with GH Flora Series nutes...I have a heater in the res to keep it at 75*...I use rod water, I recently tried an experiment, and havent changed the res in 3 grows...use the same for flower as veg and add nutes (8ml micro-16ml bloom per gallon) and/or water to keep ppm at 900-1000 and a ph of 5.5...ph has been stable for months and the plants are flourishing...
 
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LumpStatus

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Puffin Afatty said:
I use an ebb and flow sys too...I use the Lucas Formula with GH Flora Series nutes...I have a heater in the res to keep it at 75*...I use rod water, I recently tried an experiment, and havent changed the res in 3 grows...use the same for flower as veg and add nutes (8ml micro-16ml bloom per gallon) and/or water to keep ppm at 900-1000 and a ph of 5.5...ph has been stable for months and the plants are flourishing...
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That is exactly what I am trying to do here. Using the lucas formula, but my water keeps getting messed up. When your water drops in ppm and you want it to be brought back up to 1000ppm, do you add nutes directly to the res or mix in a seperate container?
 
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Puffin Afatty

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LumpStatus said:
That is exactly what I am trying to do here. Using the lucas formula, but my water keeps getting messed up. When your water drops in ppm and you want it to be brought back up to 1000ppm, do you add nutes directly to the res or mix in a seperate container?[/quote]

I just add it to a gallon of rod, mix and then add to res...I am not very familiar with organics, but it appears the organic components of your res are fermenting...I think the use of h202 will just kill the organics, but not solve the issue...I only use the Bloom and Micro parts of the Flora series, but you mentioned the Nova has organic components...If possible, just avoid the organics...I've used GH from the beginning, it aint broke yet, so I wont be fixin it...bongsmilie
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Serotonin

Serotonin

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One other thing, I had pretty much the exact same thing you're talking about. Nasty/musty smell and a foamy slime shit all along the waterline... my res at that time was a bronze plastic and light traveled through it even with shit all over it. I ended up attempting one plant in DWC after saving my plants in rockwool. That one plant went into a thick ass black bucket and I'm adding h2o2. I originally was trying to cool it but the temp is around 70 and putting frozen water bottles in there got old after the first 3 days.

Anyways, for me the totally light proof res with h2o2 and 2 6" airstones for just 4 gallons of water solved the problem. My mother has been doing fine for 2 weeks now and the water is perfect.

I hope the shit works out for you man.
 
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Puffin Afatty

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bongsmilie
it seems, from your description that the organic component in the Nova Series nutes is your problem...putting h2o2 in would just kill the living organics, thus solving your problem...I would change back to GH Flora series nutes, and continue with the Lucas Formula of 8ml micro and 16ml bloom for each gallon of rod, then keep the ppm at 800 and ph of 5.5...
 
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wilson530

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Well I was too lazy to read all the posts, but the title peaked my curiosity. I ran into the exact same problem, water getting cloudy and starting to smell like a very dirty fish tank after 24 to 48 hours after everything had been flushed. My problem ended up being that I was running city, more importantly chlorinated water in my system while using a sub culture for my roots. well in turn the chlorine was killing the bacteria which was stinking up my res. switched to R/O and everythang is peachy.
 
mista32

mista32

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I say ditch the organic and use the gh flora if u dont trie this with like a galloon of distilled water same conditions
 
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DaivsCCS

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mista32 said:
I say ditch the organic and use the gh flora if u dont trie this with like a galloon of distilled water same conditions
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i have this same exact problem even using gh 3 part.. i dot know how to solve it but it only happens to me in bloom stage. my mothers, clones and veg room are perfectly fine but as soon as i flash 12/12 the water starts to stink.. i thought it was my nutes but i flushed with flora clean moved them to my bud room and fed them just plain water to see if it was nutes.... the water stinks nutes or not.. what to do?
 
smokingrubber

smokingrubber

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Puffin Afatty said:
I use an ebb and flow sys too...I use the Lucas Formula with GH Flora Series nutes...I have a heater in the res to keep it at 75*...I use rod water, I recently tried an experiment, and havent changed the res in 3 grows...use the same for flower as veg and add nutes (8ml micro-16ml bloom per gallon) and/or water to keep ppm at 900-1000 and a ph of 5.5...ph has been stable for months and the plants are flourishing...
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You don't change the res for months? I did a search but couldnt find it, do you have a link to the Lucas Formula? Thank you.

I am using GH and a 55 gal res, there is a slight smell but its kinda not too bad. Still vegging though.
 
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DaivsCCS

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smokingrubber said:
You don't change the res for months? I did a search but couldnt find it, do you have a link to the Lucas Formula? Thank you.

I am using GH and a 55 gal res, there is a slight smell but its kinda not too bad. Still vegging though.
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i change my res every week and after 2 days it stimks
 
RyanTheRhino

RyanTheRhino

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I know everyone seems to be agains tap water but tap water has antibacterial particals in it so it might help if its a bacteria problem. (a 8.1 PH from the tap might be to strong ) the chlorine lvls are really high when the ph is so high


also id your rez made of food grade material. if not the polymers can seep into your solution.
 
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