Hey all, I'll get a camera soon to take a picture of this.
I lifted my 30 day old plants outta the tub I'm using today to check root growth, as growth and root growth in general has been VERY slow.
Water temperature has been between 60-70. PH drifts slowly between 5.5 and 5.8. I have four air pumps that are rated for 100 litre fish tanks pushing air through 4 x 6" air stones.
I am using Advanced A+B PH perfect nutes and something alled propigator and some super thrive.
PPM is at 600.
I have had almost NO root development in the last two weeks. Had some long stringy ones head down into the tank real quick then almost nothing else. LIke 5 roots hangin down from each plant into the res water. I ran a second course of the propigator (roots exellerant type thing) for the last four days and roots took off but get no longer than an inch from the basket and then just kinda stop growing. They are not hairy looking roots.
I Have had some random burning that looks like over nutes, but that started at 300ppm.
The long roots I do have are slightly brown (Kinda seems like it'd be from the b's. . not like disgusting brown, no weird smell. Not like rotting, just kinda like metal ??
Anyway. . the plants have been stable and under a 600watt MH for three weeks and they aren't even 8" tall yet.
Now THIS is the part I haven't ever heard anything about.
Today when I pulled them out I thought for sure I had root rot.
There were blak spots on any root that was hanging at least to the solution. The roots that were new from the propigator are all very white and seem to look good.
Now the weird part was I had read how root rot was slimey, well my black spots aren't slimey and I an easily remove them from the roots with my fingers. The weird part is, it seems like the stuff that comes off is lint.
Like it's. . like wet lint, take a tiny piece of lint from the lint trap in the dryer, wet it. that's whats hanging from my roots.
but wtf?? I have been very clean all through and I an't imagine where the lint stuff would have come from.
I have grown in SUNHINE and PROMIX before and had MUCH faster growth. So it seems like the plants are being affected.
What the heck is going on. I probably shouldn't have smoked before I wrote this, so I hope it's not one of thos rambly annoying posts. . but this is strange and I googled the shit out of it with no success other than there is some kind of stringy fungus that can affect plants, but nothing saying this type of fungus happens in hydro.
Seriously, pull the little lint ball outta your belly button, soak it and fling it at your roots. That's what I got goin on.
Anyone?
I lifted my 30 day old plants outta the tub I'm using today to check root growth, as growth and root growth in general has been VERY slow.
Water temperature has been between 60-70. PH drifts slowly between 5.5 and 5.8. I have four air pumps that are rated for 100 litre fish tanks pushing air through 4 x 6" air stones.
I am using Advanced A+B PH perfect nutes and something alled propigator and some super thrive.
PPM is at 600.
I have had almost NO root development in the last two weeks. Had some long stringy ones head down into the tank real quick then almost nothing else. LIke 5 roots hangin down from each plant into the res water. I ran a second course of the propigator (roots exellerant type thing) for the last four days and roots took off but get no longer than an inch from the basket and then just kinda stop growing. They are not hairy looking roots.
I Have had some random burning that looks like over nutes, but that started at 300ppm.
The long roots I do have are slightly brown (Kinda seems like it'd be from the b's. . not like disgusting brown, no weird smell. Not like rotting, just kinda like metal ??
Anyway. . the plants have been stable and under a 600watt MH for three weeks and they aren't even 8" tall yet.
Now THIS is the part I haven't ever heard anything about.
Today when I pulled them out I thought for sure I had root rot.
There were blak spots on any root that was hanging at least to the solution. The roots that were new from the propigator are all very white and seem to look good.
Now the weird part was I had read how root rot was slimey, well my black spots aren't slimey and I an easily remove them from the roots with my fingers. The weird part is, it seems like the stuff that comes off is lint.
Like it's. . like wet lint, take a tiny piece of lint from the lint trap in the dryer, wet it. that's whats hanging from my roots.
but wtf?? I have been very clean all through and I an't imagine where the lint stuff would have come from.
I have grown in SUNHINE and PROMIX before and had MUCH faster growth. So it seems like the plants are being affected.
What the heck is going on. I probably shouldn't have smoked before I wrote this, so I hope it's not one of thos rambly annoying posts. . but this is strange and I googled the shit out of it with no success other than there is some kind of stringy fungus that can affect plants, but nothing saying this type of fungus happens in hydro.
Seriously, pull the little lint ball outta your belly button, soak it and fling it at your roots. That's what I got goin on.
Anyone?
