Brown stuff on cutting from DWC cloner

[Meast21]

I get brown stuff almost looks like a wet dirt kind of on my cuttings when I put them in my DWC 1.5 gallon cloner. This is a pic of the cutting and now I'm thinking its the dirt from the air stone that is in the cloner to circulate the water. What do you think?

This substance makes it harder and longer for my cuttings to root.

 

[Lordhooha]

I get brown stuff almost looks like a wet dirt kind of on my cuttings when I put them in my DWC 1.5 gallon cloner. This is a pic of the cutting and now I'm thinking its the dirt from the air stone that is in the cloner to circulate the water. What do you think?

This substance makes it harder and longer for my cuttings to root.

Throw a pinch of pool shock in there and it should clear up

 

[Meast21]

Throw a pinch of pool shock in there and it should clear up

I just need to start using new air stones every 2 months maybe. I

 

[myke]

I just need to start using new air stones every 2 months maybe. I

Common thing,stems are too wet they get mushy.Boil air stones or soak in bleach.

 

[Meast21]

Common thing,stems are too wet they get mushy.Boil air stones or soak in bleach.

So, is it the air stones or the stems getting too wet??

 

[drbudkilo]

I get brown stuff almost looks like a wet dirt kind of on my cuttings when I put them in my DWC 1.5 gallon cloner. This is a pic of the cutting and now I'm thinking its the dirt from the air stone that is in the cloner to circulate the

I get brown stuff almost looks like a wet dirt kind of on my cuttings when I put them in my DWC 1.5 gallon cloner. This is a pic of the cutting and now I'm thinking its the dirt from the air stone that is in the cloner to circulate the water. What do you think?

This substance makes it harder and longer for my cuttings to root.

are the cuttings dying? if they are look up pythium.
if they are not I would guess iron F3 . ferric iron .

 

[NewGrower2011]

I use Southern Ag's Bio Friendly Fungicide in my cloner and that seems to have helped me prevent these type of issues. And I can say I'm far from keeping things super clean/sterile. I do let my stones and cloner sit in super hot tap water when I "clean" between cycles but I've yet to really use anything even as harsh as bleach. So far, I get very good success rates when given adequate time - with very low (if any to be honest) failures.

Mine is a TurboKlone so not DWC necessarily, but all the same I'd suspect the SouthernAg BFF or an equivalent may help?

 

[zzyx]

It needs more oxygen.

 

[Rurumo]

I'd add some h202, it works well in those cloners.

 

[Wastei]

Bleach(sodium hypochlorite) works really well as a sterilizing agent and is very accessible and affordable.

To answers the question, it's rot.

 

[zzyx]

Stones suck at aeration. Flume your rez for maximum oxygen absorption!

 

[The Dawg]

Yes you have Pythium or as its commonly know as Root Rot. They only way I know to fight root rot is with a beneficial bacterial tea. Below is a thread that deals with Pythium. Peace and happy reading

DWC Root Slime Cure aka How to Breed Beneficial Microbes

When a clear snot forms on roots in a DWC, and the normal course of treatment for root disease doesn't work, you probably have something called brown slime algae, which actually isn't algae at all, but a cyanobacteria. It loves oxygen and doesn't need light to grow. It doesn't care if your res...

www.rollitup.org

 

[Growingforaminute]

H2O2 or bleach for the win.