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I use orca microbes in my reservoir. No hydroguard keep my res temp below 68f1 Photo
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Howdy Therookie, First of all, some of the nutrients contain dyes and thry can 'concentrate at the roots discoloring them. The water temperature should be kept between 62° F and 79° F and well oxygenated to keep the brown algae or root rot down. If You add any H2O2 into the reservoirs, it will kill off the Hydro guard as it is an organism that feeds on the algae. Also, blocking any and all light intrusions into the reservoir is essential in order to control the algae.
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i think water temp is too high, get your water down to mid 60's, make sure no light leaks (no clear hoses as well), keep up with hydroguard (i use 8 ml for 4 gallon), make sure you have a good air pump, also all airlines should be same length to evenly distribute the air. Id recommend foil over top of the net pot as well.
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Yep with a 4gal res I’m putting 8ml of Hydroguard in there
as far as I can tell no light is penetrating
temp of the water is 70-75 depending when light is on
and I have 2 large air stones in the res I figured the more air the less chance of root rot
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Are you using 2 ml of hydroguard in every gallon of fluid added to reservoir. Is light able to penetrate the tote especially through the lid? Another thing to look at is temperature of the solution in your reservoir. I tried using a larger pump to supply air to all my totes over having one small air pump for each it caused my temperature to rise enough to cause me root rot once.
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Hydro DWC Root Problem?
I’ve done 3 DWC grows so far and every time this seems to happen so I feel the need to ask if I’m doing something wrong!
I follow the feed chart to a tee on GrowWeedEasy.com and I put Hydroguard in every reservoir. About a day or 2 after every bucket change my roots seem to turn this brown like maroon color. I’ve cleaned my air stones for 48 hrs in hydrogen peroxide that cleaned them really well so I thought it would be better but it still came back. I’ve flushed the roots with regular water back to a white color and the moment I put my GH nutes in there 2 days later boom it’s back.
My only assumption it’s one of the nutrients in the FloraGro series as one of them is very dark and reddish
maybe someone can tell me if I’m doing something wrong or this is normal?
if you look in that picture you can see some new roots starting to shoot out and my plant seems fine and perky so it doesn’t seem to be hurting it?
thank youLast edited by Therookie; 10-09-2020, 04:23 PM.
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