I grow DWC and in my hydro grows I've been able to mostly beat root rot, but I sometimes still struggle with certain plants even with Hydroguard
Do you think that the water source makes a difference? Like, does root rot grow better in some water compared to others? Would I be more or less likely to get root rot if I used filtered water? Or is there another product/tool to use? 🌊
- Hydroguard - of all the things this has worked best, and I use it always, but I sometimes still get a little root rot if it's hot - it's enough to get me to harvest every time though
- Great White - didn't seem to have any effect for me, except it drained my pockets of money
- H2O2 / Hydrogen Peroxide - didn't work for me at all, in fact made it worse. The roots looked white right away, so I thought it was working, but the root rot came back worse than ever the next day. This is the only time I LOST my plants to root rot, so I'm still bitter
- Not moving plants when they're young and topping off instead of reservoir changes for first 4 weeks - From the website Nebula wrote once that she found young plants often get root rot if you move them around, and said to start seedlings in their final container and only top off with nutrient water for the first 4 weeks instead of replacing the water fully. That's also helped, but sometimes they still get root rot if it gets hot even if they're undisturbed
- Making sure seedlings don't get super wet when they're young - I feel like if the rockwool is really wet the seedlings just sort of get mushy and die
- Water chiller - this is the one and it just didn't seem to help for some reason. My friend let me borrow it for a week and I may have needed to just do it longer but it didn't seem to help at all. Plus it made my electricity bill higher. It uses almost the same watts as my 600W grow light (it uses 550W)! I'd rather use an AC if keeping temps down is the route I'm going to take
- I realize I need to fix the heat (it gets up to 80 degrees), but I'm just wondering if there's anything else I can do to stop root rot, too
Do you think that the water source makes a difference? Like, does root rot grow better in some water compared to others? Would I be more or less likely to get root rot if I used filtered water? Or is there another product/tool to use? 🌊
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