I trashed you because quite honestly dude, and I'm not trying to be a dick about it, you don't understand the complexities of growing in DWC. So you busted in here and gave advice, that was actually quite false, and you did it with attitude to boot. Which kind of pisses me off because this forum is full of growers with SOME of the information or understanding.
Home boy doesn't have a light leak, he's got excess microbial activity brought on by the precense of detritus in his buckets. You could go sterile at that point or switch to bennies.
FYI, there are certain things you can get in your system that will not be cured by your typical treatments; zone, h2o2, light proofing, more oxygen. What I am talking about is Cyanobacteria that is also known as "the brown slime". Yet guys post pictures of the slime and half-informed growers start spouting off advice such as duct tape, h2o2, zone, etc. that won't do shit.
I have wonderfully tasting and pure water from the tap. 32 ppm is what my tap readings are. Unfortunately, Portland does not dose their water with chloramines at a sufficient strength to kill Cyanobacteria. And thus...it is always waiting there for me.
I recently moved to a new grow site and in all the 16 hour days of installing lights, co2, ventilation , wiring new circuits, building a new control panel I neglected my plants and rot set in. I dosed with bleach and caught it but I paid the price, it a kicked the snot out of y plants and I had lots of root damage that I had to deal with. But when you have 9k watts over 14 monster plants, you don't have the luxury of just "trying shit". Every month my power bill shows up...$1200 is the average. I generally have almost 5 grand into my plants at harvest. And that is for ONE of my rooms. The 18k vertical Hempy grow room has a power bill that is downright offensive.
So trust me, despite my general abbrasivness and enjoyment in fucking with trolls, I do in fact no what the hell I'm doing in this
Florida? Fuck dude, you got balls. If your worried about security..you can always pm me directly. In Oregon it's all sunshine and roses. I had a cop come to the house last year as some fuck-twit stole my car stereo. "Sir, it smells strongly of marijuana in here". " ohh yeah, I have an OMMP grow room in the basement, the lights are on, would you like to see it?" Tool him down there and he said "pretty cool, looks like you have this down to a science" is what he said
LOL. Welcome to the west coast.