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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    Just want to say a massive thanks to every one who offered me advice! You quite literally saved my ass! I used h2o2 to kill all the bacteria on the root system I bleached the containers, changed the air lines to black and changed the air stones which had massively slowed things down but after...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    So now I have my temporary tent in position I have room temps of 24c humidity of 65% and a the nutrient temperature of 19c I've cleaned out the reservoir with bleach washed off the roots and sterilsed and the net pots and re balanced the water ph 5.8 and a nutrient ec of 0.6 I shall keep an eye...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    Thank man appreciate the help and advice i and I'm blessed to not need a chill I'm on the other end of the scale where I actually need a aquarium heater.. especially today when they're removed from the hot water pipes! So much great information given to me on this thread but my mind at ease ✌️
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    Thanks for your help and input man really appreciated! Also my tap water is great almost RO more or less.. less than 90ppm but I think shall be going down the bleach route I have my temporary tent now so that will be going up once I've finished work so I should have a much better controller...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    My reservoir temps were stable at 19C and everything looking great before by as you can see the hot water pipes are right next to the box and my Mrs has been rocking the heating full blast while I've been abroad for a few days to do some work on my villa and they were 29 when I came back. I also...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    Excellent man! Just what I was looking for! I'll search for a calculator now and I'll completely change everything tonight
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    Thanks man! The slime literally just washed right off, but that could be that I caught it right away? I've got a small temporary tent arriving today aswell as black hose for the air and I'm going to totally change the reservoir and clean it and also soak the net pots In h2o2 and then add a...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    I I'm just going to go alone for the ride and see what happens hopefully one of the 3 survive but failing that I still have plenty of beans left to have another try and I wouldn't say it is a bad bad odor just doesn't smell like normal but the rhizotonic has a funky smell it naturally maybe...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    I'm not sure exactly what it is but it's very very dark and smells aswell to be honest... maybe it's that which has stuck to the roots with the slightly high temperature because it literally just washed off with the tap and the water isn't slimey it was only the roots? And I'm not using h2o2...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    You are so lucky with it being legal where you're from I wish it was here my air temps are around 25c with the light. But I have been told maximum temperature for dwc water is 22c and mine run at 19-20 with heater obviously when you have extremely hot water pipes next to the reservoir from...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    I'm more concerned of my neighbors with the light leaks from plants with out a tent as it's illegal in my country and all was fine before I went away and my Mrs put heating on full blast obviously if I use the tent and move to a room in my house turn radiator off the water temperature will be...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    Haha I would love too, but Id have to board up the windows some how otherwise I would have issues with light leaks to the plants and worse, out to my nosey "well to do neighbours" and i don't want to ruin the interior decor of my home I've decided to buy a mini tent and just hold out for a week...
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    Urgent help black/ brown slime on roots dwc

    So I've been abroad for a few days and my Mrs has been looking after my plants for me and came home to brown (smelly) slime in my reservoir. I washed the roots cleaned and bleached all the tank air stones ECT. I Made some light blocking top rings because I thought light could have been...
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    Abe's Up A Tree Stealth Grow

    Looks absolutely ace this hats off to you! Looks alot of effort climbing up that tree loaded up with water! Where abouts in the world are you to be having temperatures suitable to be growing the ganja in December? It would have died from frost bite long ago where I'm from
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    First ever grow, dwc, succeed, fail.. what ever it will entail

    Thanks man! Yeah I didn't even think of evaporation to be honest. That's something else I need to keep an eye on and factor in to my grow aswell now It was just that everything has been static for days and then lost 1.5 litres of water but I did have my heating on continuously in the last day...
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    First ever grow, dwc, succeed, fail.. what ever it will entail

    So here we are at day 5 and they've literally doubled in size. I've been checking the water daily and things have started to finally change.. water level has dropped, EC has risen and so has the pH which tells me, maybe I'm wrong? But that they are only drinking water making the water more...
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    First ever grow, dwc, succeed, fail.. what ever it will entail

    Success! I've managed to get 1 of each of strain to sprout. The other 2 seeds also sprouted but I don't have space for them.... I think taking on 3 different strains at the same time is a massive risk anyway so I'll just have to deal with 3 and if one survives by the end I will be happy...
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    First ever grow, dwc, succeed, fail.. what ever it will entail

    I only had the dome on for the initial germination period. The humidifier is to control the climate post germination and throughout the rest my grow I removed the dome right away after you said it wasn't great idea and now I have germination the humidifier is running in the closet with a light...
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    First ever grow, dwc, succeed, fail.. what ever it will entail

    After removing the dome, I can now see the seed heads breaking the surface of the rock wool, so hopefully I'll have little baby weedlings when I wake up tomorrow. I currently have my clay pebbles/hydroton soaking in my sink/basin after a heavy rinse to remove the dust/impurities and adjusting...
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