Black slime killing my pineapple express and wwxbb

0vergrown420

0vergrown420

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Ok I have grown 3 times before and this has been the best setup I've had and only 3 weeks in the brown slime has attacked my babies. When I first noticed it I ordered the stuff to brew a tea and did so. While waiting on my order to come in I tried h2o2 and it did nothing. I always do research and follow instructions as to not screw things up. After applying the tea I waited one week and the once brown was black and spreading fast. The other day I did a res change and rinsed the roots gently and got all the slime and rot off. I sterilized everything and they did great the first night. The next day they looked to be struggling but I thought it was from rinsing the roots with my tap water which has a ph of about 7. On the 2nd day 3 of the 4 plants had drooped over completely. I have done nothing else but stake them up and hope for recovery. Now the black on the roots has completely taken over 4 times as fast as before. The plants are 4 weeks old and have done nothing but slowly die since the res change. Ph is between 5.5 and 6.1, water temp is bout 70, minimal light leaks if any, I use sensi grow with voodoo juice, and ppm is 1000. The pics of the roots are the pineapple express and the other ones are all 4 before and after the res change. The best looking one now is the purple haze which is the one I was least concerned with.
 

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Ph'd water with no nutes? I have aquashield and ZHO that I used to brew the tea. Would one of those work for the roots and can these plants make a full recovery?
 
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Sensizym airstones regen a root and blacked out rez oh and wilt guard it goes with the regen a root that's how you beat bad bacteria by adding good it's like having a bad stomach and eating yogurt it settles it and if you keep eating it will make you happy
 
0vergrown420

0vergrown420

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I think at this point it will take so long for them to recover that I'm gonna try to get one good clone from each. I have an EZcloner 25 site. I am prob just gonna build a big box and get a pump timer pvc sprayer nozzles and just go areo. I am having to much of a hard time with 4 different res's. I don't want to loose the strains I have and don't want to start all over with just 4 plants. I have had much better luck with clones anyway. Does it sound like it would be worth it? When I get all that done I'm gonna start a grow journal cause I'm gonna need some pro help. I am setting my pride aside and asking for help. I have thousands invested in this half ass setup and just want some nice smoke.
 
anoos

anoos

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Yeah take some clones dude those roots is fucked!!

Take clones, empty everything out and clean everything thoroughly with H2O2 solution and start again.

Teas are good for healthy roots, as someone above mentioned having good bacteria cultures in your water will defend the roots from pathogens, also any kind of root stim obviously is good for roots. Make sure there wasn't another problem with your setup, no light leak into the rez and enough O2 being dissolved by the airstones and making sure you clean your rez!
 
0vergrown420

0vergrown420

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Now that the weekend is here it's time for me to get some work done. I need some tips on setting up an aero grow. I have done a lot of research and have a pretty good idea how to do it but am wanting some ideas on the best way to to build a setup for 20 plants, how big of a box, spacing between plants, number of sprayer nozzles and which ones to get, pump size (I was gonna get a 1000gph), how many gal res. I have and will be running sensi grow with the voodoo juice, and maybe aquashield and zho if they would work with a aero setup.
 
Dr Kynes

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0vergrown420 said:
Ok I have grown 3 times before and this has been the best setup I've had and only 3 weeks in the brown slime has attacked my babies. When I first noticed it I ordered the stuff to brew a tea and did so. While waiting on my order to come in I tried h2o2 and it did nothing. I always do research and follow instructions as to not screw things up. After applying the tea I waited one week and the once brown was black and spreading fast. The other day I did a res change and rinsed the roots gently and got all the slime and rot off. I sterilized everything and they did great the first night. The next day they looked to be struggling but I thought it was from rinsing the roots with my tap water which has a ph of about 7. On the 2nd day 3 of the 4 plants had drooped over completely. I have done nothing else but stake them up and hope for recovery. Now the black on the roots has completely taken over 4 times as fast as before. The plants are 4 weeks old and have done nothing but slowly die since the res change. Ph is between 5.5 and 6.1, water temp is bout 70, minimal light leaks if any, I use sensi grow with voodoo juice, and ppm is 1000. The pics of the roots are the pineapple express and the other ones are all 4 before and after the res change. The best looking one now is the purple haze which is the one I was least concerned with.
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MORE AIR!!!!

your airtube or stone may be gummed up clean those airhoses good, and lose the airstone.

i just notch the hose 1/2 inch from the end and tie a fishing weight to it to keep the tube on the bottom and let the big bubbles splash around. it works great, and more air flows through your rez.

cut back on the nutes and do a rez change once a week and watch em come back.
 
0vergrown420

0vergrown420

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Well I cut the plants down to clones and got them in the cloner. I got the last one in right before lights out. The lights came on at 6:30. I just checked them and took some pics and some of them are drooping over but most of them are sturdy. I just hope the stress from the mothers didn't get passed onto the babies. Tomorrow I'm gonna build a 2' tall x 2' long x 4' wide box for my aero setup. I got 23 clones outta the 4 plants. My box is only gonna hold 16 but I figure I can just take my 16 best ones plus I don't expect all of them to make it. I put some zho and aquashield in the water with the cloner, figured it would be better than just water.
 

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