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the tea serves the same purpose in the dwc. You just need to replenish the res with it every few days because the microbes will eventually die off without a food source. In doing so, you also keep the leftover tea in the fridge in order to keep it in a state of stasis. The very purpose of the...

I disagree. brewing tea is much cheaper than any h2o2 or *zyme product. But you don't have to take my word for it. You can easily look up how much Ancien Forest ECW and Mycogrow soluble costs, and not to mention it is going to last me years instead of months. The advice in going sterile is...

isn't SH Hydro in MI also? If so, get it from there. They ship really fast and I am in the deep south.

I don't know about skyrocketing but I would assume that the humidity present in the room has nowhere to go if you do not have any passive ventilation available and you have all active ventilation gears turned off during the dark period. I would first start off by taking the ventilation...

I recommend 2 x Advanced Diamond Series 200 for DR80. I currently run 2 x DS300's in a DR90 tent. There are some completed journals out there although I am not sure about RIU (I don't frequent this place that often). But the best bang for your buck goes to Blackstar panels (something like 2 x...

Yes, ventilation should happen 24/7 (I don't just mean active, it can be passive as well). But more importantly, in your case, I would try to do something about the humidity because you don't want the humidity to go too much higher than mid 50's during the blooming phase if you want to stay on...

Jacks + Dyna-Gro (Protekt)

Sqydro, Glad to hear from you as I have been following your journal. My recirc is very similar to yours in that it falls from the top, thereby breaking the surface. And I am well aware that the oxygen exchange occurs through the method but my real curiosity is in "flooming" to further...

looking good mjdudeist! Are you using RO by any chance? W/ RO and lack of trace minerals, the VK is rather Mg hungry, but if you are using tap water then I'd just look for signs in the next couple of weeks.

Jewgrow, lets give you the benefit of the doubt and I never even mentioned the term "Heisenberg". And we already know the answer to the OP's post is "neither", and I agree. Going back to chemical ferts though, you are totally right in saying that any extreme acidity or alkalinity will kill...

Can you site me an example where the chem base nute lineup is harmful to the microbes other than the bennies simply starving because of the lack of food source? Also, when you are treating slime using tea, aren't you essentially supplying food for the bennies and that is the whole point? So...

I think perhaps VO and Jewgrow have the right intent but perhaps not understanding all the "Heisenberg" tea users who only use chem ferts. The idea behind it is to simply not feed the slime more by using organics and then inoculate the root using the tea soonafter you have cleaned off the...

Bennies is never the cause of a pythium attack when the tea is brewed right. Rather, it is the environment in which the bennies get introduced to is the cause. An example of that would be when you already have the early signs of root rot present and you add carb additive and the tea not...

Have you tried without any airstones?

Also w/ gasket, your hole does not have to be exact like the grommets and uniseals. Between grommets and uniseals, the uniseals still does a much better job of sealing. To show what I am talking about..

This is why I always prefer the rubber gasket + threaded PVC, and 100% silicone to seal the both inner and outer. At that point it is impossible to leak and the weak point might be the bucket or the tote (especially if you get series 40 PVC).

mjdudeist, Also, if you don't mind telling us about your setup, perhaps we can help you get over this "hump" a little easier..

Hi mjdudeist! Glad to meet another hydro VK grower! I think you are doing great but do keep in mind that VK tends to be a bit sensitive to Mg deficiency (my case only, I'm using near 0 ppm RO) and humidity in the first 2-3 weeks. I currently have 4 plants going in a 3x3 tent and two of them...

I would totally be interested in this because currently I use a 600 gph commercial air pump & double micro-pore air diffuser, and that combination is not quiet. I do some amount of prep work to dampen the pump and also the bottom of the bucket before I brew the tea.

Tea (bennies) works great in a rdwc setup. You basically need to choose the "sterile" or the "bennies" route. I chose "bennies" and don't intend to change.