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You might have some precipitates hanging around. Once things get acidic enough, they dissolve and drive the pH back up, seemingly forever, but if you chase and flush enough it should go away Especially with phophates and carbonates, like found in most commerical pH up n down

subtillus seems to be the most common one i see... hmmm... im sure there's a paper somewhere saying how to propagate.

damn- yea something cheap would be super nice. wish i had a microscope and could just play around with breeding the shit- whichever strain or a few that seem to work best. even if you can just figure out how to activate and feed em for 1 day, getting 10-100x the dose could really make up for...

ive read about a few other super strains people are coming up (cant find the links) but most of them really don't seem available on a retail level. Breeding hydroguard is probably one of the best things we can do at a small level =\ Definitely keeping an eye on any new products. Growing the damn...

yea my plants went through a hard last two weeks with an intense ph battle, lots of damaged leaves. i think that one might have actually been N deficiency- was flushing with plain water for a while. Slowly trimming and removing most of it as i see new growth. finally got things mostly stabilized...

And in response to the 7 days thing- yea, it takes a while. It's usually a pretty good idea to start exposing seedlings to trich/mych right away, even during or right after germination. This allows the fungus to grow more easily with (and inside) the roots, doing it afterwards and your plant and...

Nah, it's the stuff below the water line- much easier to manage. Getting root rot at/near the crown is really bad. I keep a really large margin between my pots and the water line too- so everything in the middle is misted by waterfalls and top-fed from the drippers. My plants so far decided it...

Yea I'm thinking I might go soil for my mothers. I don't need to do anything crazy to stimulate growth, really just need em to stay alive. Been experimenting with my houseplants lol. Got some creeping myrtle that's realllllllly loving the bennie treatment.

Pythium (or some other root rot)- new rez change, weakened plants, high temps. If it is rot, it's not terrible and should be manageable. Heh, yea fun DWC lesson for you- sterilize vs not. Basically everyone either runs a sterilize rez (usually chlorine to kill everything) or a live rez (trying...

Err sorry, I keep forgetting I'm not on the hydro form. So this is for DWC hydro- I think for soil you just want to inoculate + molasses/carbs. I think the timed drip definitely helps circulate things- whatever microbes are in the rez itself will basically be re-inoculated top-down from the net...

Really? hmm, well now the difference makes less sense. Why use orca then?

Got another week of 'red zone' to get through, but things are definitely looking better! All this bragging about how I fixed my ph "bounce up" and now its dropping. Fear pyth might be starting to show its ugly face

Really does depend on the microbe- if pyth can survive in your rez, so can other stuff. I'm sure most of the species die off pretty quick, but at east hydroguard and a few others have bacillus strains that should survive in the res. If you can't keep any bacteria alive in your rez, then good! I...

Great White = powdered Orca. Really not sure what the difference is in the end having it premixed =\

id honestly just use great white from start to finish- its got a really wide range of microbes from bacteria to fungi. Brewing the tea can be a bit tricky, and really only breeds new bacteria for you. Using great white on its own (from seedling/clones and on) gives you a really great diversity...

the humidity is starting to get pretty bad- fighting to keep it below 70, and getting worried about the condensation on the electronics.

plants are looking super scraggly, and they're starting new root growth which is... really odd. So stretching from both ends somehow. all this new parallel root growth.... really hoping the main root mass didnt start to die. The old roots definitely arent as white as the new ones... so...

This is only my second attempt at DWC, but I've never really done much with dirt. I'm sure its easier in a lot of ways, but still just damn foreign to me lol.

I know they veg super quick, but I think flowering is about the same. I definitely hear things about bigger yields, but I think it's more about just being able to support a really dense plant during flowering. The plants have a big advantage with DWC by always having nutrients available- the...

I've heard of 2-3 inches a day in DWC before- when things are actually running right it's pretty damn effective, but also really depends on the strains. Wish I caught the stretch on timelapse, but most of it was during lights out. All the plants have these big fluffy root balls already, so if...