no i was talking to dave. if youre having root rot treat with 2ml bleach per gal every couple days. pearly white roots. bleach breaks down in aerated water VERY quickly and will have to be added back all the time. i use it in all hydro unless im using beneficials and most definitely in aero cloners. i think most failures with cloning are due to bad bacteria.if you are talking to me, i haven't even purchased blumats. just asking. haven't flowered in peat/perlite either.
i don't have PH issues in my DWC tubs, only root rot
i'm gonna back out of this thread as i am semi off-topic. was just curious about blumats.
lol, i feel out of place in this thread, but since you brought it up. i am treating with h202 and pool shock. seems sucessful, but i will consider the bleach as i have a few infected plants left
I did put two air stones into the reservoir.
Can you expand upon this one a little bit.
thats good what you are doing already. no need for the bleach with the pool shock. very similar
so i started having issues with bad coco. tested the runoff and it was over 2000 ppm. with blumats you dont get runoff so if your feeds are a little heavy it will gradually build up. been going through once a week and just pouring half strength nutes till the runoff runs clear and suck it out with a shop vac. could probably do without, i used to and didnt have issues. maybe it was just because of my bad coco but i figure its worth the extra effort as an added safety
My ph never changes either. I set it and forget it. All I do is top off with more ph'd nutes when it gets low. I also run at 6.0 ph and have no calmag issues but that's likely due to the nutes I use and the fact that calcium nitrate is used throughout veg and flower. Typically people have calcium issues with coco but with VitaGrow you won't because of the calcium nitrate.
You know what's strange is that I had three very successful grows using just the blumats and no additional watering or flushing. This last grow I ran some half strength nute to 10 - 20% runoff a few weeks into flower and had all kinds of issues. It was like I released the flood gates. I'm going back to what worked great for me and that's blumats all the way through the grow. I think the coco holds onto nutes and when I ran a bunch of nutes through I flushed it out and overfed my plants.
Not all coco is the same. Some needs to be rinsed. I have a 5 gallon bucket I drilled a bunch of holes in that I used to put the re-hydrated coco in and flush using a garden hose in the back yard. I've found that the Botanicare 5 kg coco bricks don't need to be rinsed and can be re-hydrated with half strength nute and you're good to go. One of the main issues people have with coco is using coco that hasn't been washed thoroughly and has a high amount of salt in it.
Iam still here broseph. Iam still here. What up?
Bruh, I’m at Week 4 of Veg. Where you been?
Been libbin' down Flintown way. And you?
I get my pH pen calibrated frequently now.
Kinda hard to see BUT, looks like an early Mg and some light Ca def.