Best way to combat pythium and root rot in all hydroponic growing methods.

[OGMMJ]

Gotcha, just no sprayer just simply fill it up and drain it... Intresting

Just finished checking my veg and clone, been monitoring the ppm ph over the last 4 days and since I upped the ppm/ec by double last Rez change I've been intrigued to see what the plants do, and so far so good, plants look healthy as ever

Buttttt my ppm has been slowly rising, like it's went up about 50ppms over the past few days I'm assuming this is because the feeding is a bit high (what I expected after mixing the batch) so I'm going to take a few gallons out and replace with RO water and bring it down to the 500/1.0 range and see how it acts there.

 

[Tripp2005]

Clamped it around all 4 sides and still a puddle of water on the floor on one side this morning, granted I always test them with the pump running 24/7 which it will never be.

So I noticed that ur having trouble with cloning I have had my best success with this easy at home build
1. 2 outlet airstone

2. 3 and 1/2 gal bucket

3. Air stones

4.reg water ( I'm using advanced sensi grow at 1 ml per gal and b52 at 1 ml per gallon and my other with plan 7.0 tap100 ppm advanced quicker but same outcome roots)

5. Foam cutting for holes (anything really to hold cuttings in water

So cut some hole in top of bucket for plants
Then cut 2 small holes one in middle and one on side for hose
Fill
Take cuttings
Make sure the bottom is about 1 inch in water

Roots will appear with in a week first looks like little white lumps then they loop right out
Cheap and easy

 

[Tripp2005]

Oh plus one cup of hberg tea can't forget the bennies

 

[OGMMJ]

Oh plus one cup of hberg tea can't forget the bennies

I am not having an issue cloning (yet) I currently rocking the bucket aeroponic cloner basically what you recommended, i just need something that can hold more then 9 and can hold more then 2 gallons of water, with it being so small it's been running warmer then the tent has. So I've just been building something that would be a little more efficient and simpler to monitor and keep water temps low. The one I built was just leaking. I'm still messing with that but think I'm going to be able to just squeeze a Coleman cooler in the tent next to the veg system and rock the cooler cloner build.

 

[Tripp2005]

If u run bennies in it u won't have to worries about temp

 

[Tripp2005]

And if u use advanced u don't have to check the pH as often I do it once a week

 

[OGMMJ]

After all those troubles I yanked out those stupid yellow clamp handles from the cloner, shoved ear plugs in the holes where the handles stayed in place and of course finally NO LEAKS!

 

[OGMMJ]

So I'll be changing out the cloner today to the new build and running the cloner most likely sterile for a week and see how that goes, I've still been getting some clear slimey roots on the new seedlings, not much, and most of the new ones are all white but the two seedlings that have been in the cloner the longest have some transparency going on in the roots.

Another thing is these things barley grow in this cloner idk what's going on there, maybe the low temps, but I mean the two seedlings are probably 10-12 days old and still on first two leaves, they all grew about 3-4 inches out of the rapid rooter then I threw them in collars and in the cloner buckets. Not to worried though because the plants in the veg system were the same way.

 

[OGMMJ]

If u run bennies in it u won't have to worries about temp

Hopefully this is the case within reason because it's only gotten up to about 80 here so far this year and my flower room has hit 82 water temps at 74 root zone like 76

So needless to say I'm not to excited for the 90-100 degree days. Next year I really need to work out where my exhaust is actually exhausting to in my attic and get it as far away from above my room as possible . This is frustrating with a 8x3x6 room and a 9000 btu ac and only 1200 watts I see people running that with just passive intakes and aircooled hoods.

 

[Budley Doright]

If u run bennies in it u won't have to worries about temp

Ummm that's not been my experience lol. I got some ok results most of the time but keeping the water chilled (not cloning) has improved my results exponentially. The best addition to my room has been a chiller after 3 years of thinking it wasn't needed.

 

[OGMMJ]

Ummm that's not been my experience lol. I got some ok results most of the time but keeping the water chilled (not cloning) has improved my results exponentially. The best addition to my room has been a chiller after 3 years of thinking it wasn't needed.

For this reason is why I would really like to get a tiny chiller for my flower rez, only gonna be 15-20 gallons max, then if my room gets to 80-85 I'll be alright this year, I'm looking into a mini split and sealing it completely next year and just exhaust my lights straight outside pulling air from outside the room as well so no scrubbing needed.

 

[Budley Doright]

I start my cuttings in root riot cubes under a dome and have roots in 6-7 days but keep the chamber quite warm and 100% humidity. As soon as roots peek out of the cube I transplant them into the veg room and growth is phenomenal. In the veg Res I use locally mixed nutes (GH copy I think), vitanimo, and hydroguard. Great success so far . The vitanimo has stopped all leaf blotching that I had and seems to keep things nice and green, along with the Res kept at 66F, just finished the last indoor harvest of the year and planted 10 outside today. Gonna do 20 outside this summer with 10 being auto's .

 

[Budley Doright]

For this reason is why I would really like to get a tiny chiller for my flower rez, only gonna be 15-20 gallons max, then if my room gets to 80-85 I'll be alright this year, I'm looking into a mini split and sealing it completely next year and just exhaust my lights straight outside pulling air from outside the room as well so no scrubbing needed.

I've seen some pretty cheap used aquarium ones on kijiji. If you seal the room you'll need to add CO2, it's a never ending cycle of money lol. My passive one had stopped being able to chill things now but the plugs pulled .

 

[rkymtnman]

For this reason is why I would really like to get a tiny chiller for my flower rez, only gonna be 15-20 gallons max, then if my room gets to 80-85 I'll be alright this year, I'm looking into a mini split and sealing it completely next year and just exhaust my lights straight outside pulling air from outside the room as well so no scrubbing needed.

@OGMMJ
you ever thought of trying something like this?
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/iceprobe-thermoelectric-aquarium-chiller-nova-tec.html?gclid=CLyGw9Hl2cwCFQetaQodbZkIaw

 

[Budley Doright]

Gotcha, just no sprayer just simply fill it up and drain it... Intresting

Just finished checking my veg and clone, been monitoring the ppm ph over the last 4 days and since I upped the ppm/ec by double last Rez change I've been intrigued to see what the plants do, and so far so good, plants look healthy as ever

Buttttt my ppm has been slowly rising, like it's went up about 50ppms over the past few days I'm assuming this is because the feeding is a bit high (what I expected after mixing the batch) so I'm going to take a few gallons out and replace with RO water and bring it down to the 500/1.0 range and see how it acts there.

I wouldn't worry to much IMO about 50 ppm's, you could try to lower it a bit but I would be happy. Is your ph going down? Over a week my EC will climb slowly and ph will slowly go down. If the ph keeps dropping before I can change it up I will add some up but it seems to be a short lived solution as it will continue raising after a couple of days.

 

[Budley Doright]

@OGMMJ
you ever thought of trying something like this?
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/iceprobe-thermoelectric-aquarium-chiller-nova-tec.html?gclid=CLyGw9Hl2cwCFQetaQodbZkIaw

I don't think that would work, the capacity on thermoelectric units is not adequate for much more than one DWC pail. The other issue is they are just transferring heat from water to the room and as the room gets hotter capacity is even more effected.

 

[OGMMJ]

@OGMMJ
you ever thought of trying something like this?
http://www.bulkreefsupply.com/iceprobe-thermoelectric-aquarium-chiller-nova-tec.html?gclid=CLyGw9Hl2cwCFQetaQodbZkIaw

Hey! Yeah I have seen those just never heard anything good about them, I mean that would be nice but I don't feel like it would do it for me and would be better off trying to find a 1/8 - 1/4hp or so chiller for 200-400 bucks, the details says it can cool 10 gallons 6-8 degrees under ambient so even at that if my room hits 85 my Rez could be 76-79 past the point of return I would think. I would also assume bennies aren't holding off the bad at those temps.

I've never heard of kijiji I'll check it out.

 

[rkymtnman]

oh well! back to the drawing board. i had never heard good or bad about those ice probes.

 

[Budley Doright]

Hey! Yeah I have seen those just never heard anything good about them, I mean that would be nice but I don't feel like it would do it for me and would be better off trying to find a 1/8 - 1/4hp or so chiller for 200-400 bucks, the details says it can cool 10 gallons 6-8 degrees under ambient so even at that if my room hits 85 my Rez could be 76-79 past the point of return I would think. I would also assume bennies aren't holding off the bad at those temps.

I've never heard of kijiji I'll check it out.

LOL sorry just assumed Kijiji was everywhere . It's a classified ad thing here.

 

[OGMMJ]

LOL sorry just assumed Kijiji was everywhere . It's a classified ad thing here.

Ahhh gotcha around here it's the infamous craigslist