Hey all, I'm on HG near the end of week two flower. I have three gal smart pots filled with coco/perlite 50/50 set in hydroton in an ebb/flow tray. When I moved the pots from veg they had healthy roots coming out the sides and bottom like crazy. Now I see dark roots and not much of them. So.. I found gnats on the roots and drenched with Azomax, then did this again
yesterday (4 days after the first drench). Also i have these little slugs, my hygroton must have picked up in pails outside !!!!
My question is How do i beef up my roots hoping that the Azamax did a good kill.
Azamax for slugs?? I am going with the HG chart but adding hygrozyme, Cal/mag.
My plan tonight when lights go on is to drench with Mykos and stronger hygrozyme in a half strength nute mix, maybe some more HG Roots.
This is my first grow, I'm working on 5 femed plants from seed to find the best mother for the next grow. Ha One turned male yesterday and I cut him out. Not Ha really as he almost got to the females, plus a hole in my scrog. I admit I have stressed these plants in all sorts of ways. Well, the mother winner will certianally have gone through the ringer as I get my education.
BTY the remaining 5 plants do look good despite of the root problem. They just need to
thicken up and getting the roots happy is a must.
Any sugestions on getting the roots back and also on slugs.
Mahalo,
raindog
MultiZen is a enzyme product so you can stop using hygrozyme. Using enzymes and microbe life in a hydroponics system, even a container-style hydroponics system like yours, can have huge draw backs. Although Mykos is not my first choice in mycorrhizae products, it is still effective, with a synthetic or organic formula (more active in organics.) What mycorrhizae do is produce enzymes, so you don't need to supplement. At least not any more than H&G recommends. You still don't need to do it at all though, if you have well established colonies (tough but not impossible to do when using a product with Phosphoric Acid in it, like H&G).
Adding too many synthetic enzymes to a hydroponic system that already has a form of enzyme can sometimes cause slime and root disease. You can avoid root disease and drastically improve root health by brewing your own organic tea! I highly recommend it, and really have fun with it too!
Here is a really simple one:
https://www.rollitup.org/dwc-bubbleponics/361430-dwc-root-slime-cure-aka-2.html
And here is one when you are ready to experiment and brew your own recipes like me:
http://urbangardenmagazine.com/2011/02/breeding-microbes-with-compost-tea/
Are you using your Roots Excelurator too? You should be, that stuff is some kind of wizardry. Temperature and over watering can also cause issues like this, as well as under watering, make sure your temperatures are in the appropriate range and constantly be checking the consistency of your medium and it's moisture level through out the day, and check it at least once during the middle of lights out, make sure your plants aren't drying out when they are asleep.
My favorite mycorrhizae product, by the way, is ZHO, and is extremely comparable to the Great White, and may be available to you. It is certainly more diverse than the Mykos product, which I believe is only 1 or 2 endo mycorrhizae species, while endo is all we need, more than 1 or 2 would be nice.
Hey Jozikins, I have been down BioBizz road to a dissapointing grow, I shoulda known better when I read the NPK ratios... I had deficiencies I had never experienced besides the obvious lack of nitrogen, but I know people who like and use it, so they double or triple on their dosages for deficiencies and give BioBizz lots of cash...( I'm in the wrong business!) way too freakin' spendy to start with... I have used Flora Nova in the past with good results, I added additional cal/mag,silica, notrozyme and Floralicious/Flora Nectar during flower and amended my soil with bone meal, neem seed meal and mycorrhizae, tasty crop.
I agree that adding an organic tea to a synthetic fertilizer will help, and I understand people use synthetic nutes to get bigger crops but personally I am sticking with all organic from here on out, you get the best flavorful potent buds that the plant can possibly produce, period.
I have tasted some really nasty synthetic weed that gave me a hell of a head ache and I thought I was going to cough up a lung, how is that possibly good for people to smoke??!!
Nice chatting with you! And thanks for editing my MOAB error!
Yeah, NPK ratios are fucked on BioBizz, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Magnesium deficiencies non stop, and when I would juice them to fix the Mg def I would end up getting a Ca tox! Barrgh! The reps are really confident and cocky, and talked it up like this shit would never happen but it's been a constant struggle. The plants really prefer to be juiced to the max or further with the product, and it is far too outrageously priced for me to afford it. Plus, my last question about them being 100% organic and floralicious plus being the same thing as a non-organic certified BioHeaven, and the seem to be stumped, no email back yet.
Oh man, my brother shared some Purple Kush from the clinic with me last night, claiming it was sooo delicious. It tasted like my mouth was being washed out with soap, all I could taste is synthetic fertilizer and a cheap flushing agent that was used in the last 3 days, definitely not more. Busted out my organic Whiteberry and mopped the floor with that Purple Kush. My
Whiteberry was more purple too!
What product are you currently using to get your organic fix?
I hear Jozikins flushes for ten day. Do we flush when plants are finished or do we
take the ten days into account. If we take the ten day into account for finish time then how do we add shooting powder the last week? Thanks.
10 days is taken into account. If you have a 9 week strain, you follow the 8 week feeding schedule and flush for the last week. You can push those extra 3 days out, or start your flush 3 days early. 14 day flush is always best, but always watch your plant health, you don't ever want to waste time/money nursing a long a plant that has stopped uptaking water/nutrients. I've pushed a few of my SFV way passed the harvest window lately, still came out amazing though.
Good luck on your harvest buddy, H&G provided me with an amazing harvest that caught 900 a qp at the dispensaries back in 2009 when you could get a price like that for A++ shit. It was my second harvest, my first harvest being my learning experience and complete garbage. But I've taught lots of people to do a A+ job their first time or better, you can do it bro.