Best way to combat pythium and root rot in all hydroponic growing methods.

Budley Doright

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yeah, i see your point. a plant does use chlorine so it would drop over time. i'm drain to waste so my ppms are constant.
Or sometimes it doesn't drop :(. Just found it much less stressful to run hydroguard and it really did bring the plants back from the dead lol. I tried everything and things didn't improve but the chlorine did help more than the H2O2 :)
 

SpookBud

Member
I haven't been following this thread really but figured I would contribute my experience last grow. I can't exactly remember why they started to slime but after they did I re-enforced the light proofing and added more air and changed out the stone. It slowed down but did not go away. When rot started I trimmed the root mass of all dead roots and then soaked in a H202 solution. It would be better for a few days and then get worse again. I realized it was because the H202 would stunt it but as soon as it dissipated it would come back. I started adding H202 to the rez every few days and also soaked the root mass in a stronger H202 solution once a week during rez changes. This slowed it down for a while but it kept coming back. As a last ditch effort I trimmed the roots again, soaked in a strong H202 solution, rinsed really well, and then added hydroguard to the rez. That worked and they made it to harvest. The brown slime caused a lot of nutrient issues so these plants had a long veg time but the harvest was decent. Getting those plants to something that was nice to smoke was very hard and took a lot of time (seed to harvest was around 5.5 months).

For those having slime or root rot symptoms I would definitely recommend hydroguard.
 

Corvette kidd

Active Member
Southern ag garden friendly fungicide and great white. A lot of the time when people think they have root rot, they actually have a type of cyanobacteria that is usually bleach and chlorine resistant. The bennies will save your life and improve your harvest garunteed.
 

Budley Doright

Well-Known Member
Southern ag garden friendly fungicide and great white. A lot of the time when people think they have root rot, they actually have a type of cyanobacteria that is usually bleach and chlorine resistant. The bennies will save your life and improve your harvest garunteed.
Perhaps that explains the success of some but not all.
 

jimmy1life

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i had few samples of Slf 100 worked great its gone and now trying to decide i see people ranting pondzyme and pool shock. I am totally lost should i go back to the hydro store. or the pond and pool sections? i see that the h2o2 is used up or dispersed of almost instanly, sick of chunking cash to the hydro stores switched to maxi and have been on a saving money trip lately lol.
 

Budley Doright

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^^^^hydroguard worked for my setup where bleach didn't, neither did H2O2 and it's getting pretty expensive here and hard to find at 35% :(.
 

Chillin chillin

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500 ml hydro guard
500 ml fulvic acid
500 ml great white
Remainder of 5 gal water
Cap and shake daily for 3 days
Use 5 ml per gallon, good for 7 days
 

Budley Doright

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Perhaps I'll try some, reading your other threads and an amazing job. I use AquaFlakes but really pricey here, also having great luck with this
http://www.ez-gro.com/ doubt they ship but amazing price point and same growth patterns but I'm not anywhere close to you guys. I'm a retired field farmer lol.
 
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