Hey guys, so I am dealing with a root rot problem with low Rez temps, I believe it was caused by my rez color being grey and I think it could have been letting the slightest bit of light through and caused some brown slime algae (pump and hose was smiley during Rez change) I immediately bathed all the plants in the tub in a h2o2 and water solution while I rebuilt my veg unit, I'm running the Stinkbud vegger system so two tubs stacked on one another, the new tubs are the black ones with yellow lids, I painted my top lid black so and now with the lower tub being black as well I believe I fixed the light issue if that was the cause of the algae which was the cause of the root rot (I'm assuming) now my question is do you think I will be safe from here on out with stored RO water, black tubs vs the grey and dark blue I was using before, botanicare kind plus additives. Will be adding pondzyme and hydroguard very soon, just wondering if I should still be trying on these plants or just can them and start fresh, (they were bagseed to test the system for curveballs
such as this!) the plants are young, less then a month old, one of the plants that was infected I just cut all the roots off and put in the cloner just to see if that would be an option, but my question is only the older 3 plants have any brown roots, all the younger plants roots look healthy and white but they are all in the same system so I'm worried even after getting the light leak out of the equation and adding h2o2 to my nutrient solution if I still took one step forward two steps back by putting the infected plants back into the new veg system.
Thanks guys, (I knew I should have just bought one of those 400 dollar oxy machines and ran 78 degree Rez temps and I wouldn't have this problem) lolol j guy
Actually I have an extra oxygen concentrator laying around from my glassblowing studio... If you guys help me out with this brown slime out of no where maybe I'll hook it up to its own system just to see if it would ever possibly justify running a huge bulky oxy con for a hydro rez. (Doubtful) but willing to try!
Btw I am using stored reverse osmosis water which brings me to this concern.... Could my whole water storage barrel already be contaminated and therefore any water I use from my stored water will instantly start a bad bacteria ecosystem