bleach/chlorine evaporating from nutrients solution almost immediately

clownbow

Member
so I have test strips to test for the amount of chlorine/bleach in my nutrient water so I usually add the chlorine/bleach first then test with the test strip to see how much chlorine/bleach is in the water then I add my nutrients and test again but almost immediately after I add the nutrients the test strip says there is no more chlorine /bleach in the water?? so I'm thinking a lot of people are using bleach and thinking that it is helping but it is not doing anything ....I assume the bleach is reacting with the nutrient solution and cancel each other out ...I have tested this with two different nutrients solutions one with flora duo and the other with cyco...another time I just added Cal magic and had the same problem ended up with no bleach in the water once I added it?? so what I'm trying to find out is if anyone knows of a nutrient that is compatible with bleach...I don't think that there is... I had a problem with Pythium root rot and was using beneficial bacteria and fungi which did keep the plants growing somewhat healthy but the roots would still come out brown and nasty with a diminishing yield in my RDWC...I was planning on running a side by side comparisons with beneficial bacteria with fungi and bleach and colloidal silver to test all three separately and that's when I figured out that the bleach is disappearing immediately
 
Didn't you make a duplicate thread earlier.. why would you add chlorine, the tap water already has a shit ton of it!

Sure if u have major root rot you can add hydrogen bleach as a one off but chlorine?

And of course it's going to evaporate it has a low boiling point.

I use dutch master zone active ingredients are potassium nitrate and copper sulfate.
 

Thundercat

Well-Known Member
I've been using chlorine for about a year now. I have not however used a test kit to determine how long it stayed in the res. I was under the impression it only lasted 2-3 days, but perhaps not een that long from what your saying. I use pool shock rather then actual bleach. I chose this based on alot of reading, and then the recommendation from my grow shop guy. I was looking at buying a res cleaning solution which was mostly premixed chlorine. He suggested the shock since it was alot cheaper, and worked just as well in his experiance. So I started using it, by mixing 1tsp of shock with 1 gallon of water. Then I add 1 oz of this solution per gallon of water in my res about every 3-4 days. I havn't had any issues with algae or bacteria in a long time. I switched to the shock because it was ALOT cheaper then H2O2, which I had previously used. I've thought about trying zone as I've read good things about it, but just havn't bothered since I have good results.
 
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