i think one mistake alot of people make is that they add bleach to the reservoir only to get rid of a case of rot. you really need to soak from the bottom of the stem thru the entire root zone to get all the nooks and crannies. i took my whole plant, net pot and all, and dunked it in a 5 gal bucket with a max load of dutchmaster zone for about an hour.
I think the original recipe is 1 gram of htc pool shock mixed with one gallon distilled water and then add to rez at 5 ml per 5 gallons. The shock is super strong ..too much will shock them pretty hard! If you're using more and getting by then good to know. Are you using well water or city as the city already has a little chlorine in it. Also make sure you the the correct kind of shock as they have sodium based ones that will overload the plant with salt. Again, the original recipie said to use the following ones that have CH as the ingredient as it add as little extra CAL instead of salt. Most any walmart will start stocking this now since pool season is coming ..a bag of htc pool shock is $6 and will last you a very long time.
First thing i looked for was ch on the label. My current roots are going wild but it could also be because of rapid rooter from gh. However towards the end of my first i had a ton of roots most brown or slime and 3 days into using it i had tons of new roots flooding out of the net pot and allot of the discoloration either cleared up or they fell off and left them for me... how nice.
Day 2 using bleach 5.25% @ .5ml/gal. Today is the second day of bleach treatment. At the end of day one, before lights out, I checked res. Solution was cloudy, with bits and pieces of old roots. Airstones were clean, which I believe is a good sign, as that was a heavy collecting spot of the slime. Today I changed res solution again with fresh, sterilized again my bubble buckets and added 2ml of bleach for 4 gallons. Yesterday I added 1.7 but since bleach is 5.25% instead of 6% I bumped it up a bit. Plants looked healthy, more so on this second day as they did with a weeks worth of H2O2 treatment and 10 times better than they did using bennies. I will continue to change res water daily until the cloudiness and debris has subsided.
Thank you for the pool shock advice. I may try at a later date, but I am currently invested in this bleach technique. I will continue this approach and update daily. Your advice and insight are appreciated.
Ummm just a note but most hydroponic veggies are grown using chlorine as a disinfectant in commercial ops. They don't use hydroguard lol. I use hydroguard but see nothing wrong with using chlorine if it works for you, I have used it all and for my little hobby grow hydroguard works well.
Unless their spraying bleach on the buds it wouldn't be a problem.
Just make sure it has no additives and is pure.
hos do I know which ones are additive free and pure, they all say he same shit I thought. Am I looking for laundry bleach or something else. I'm going to Home Depot
I'd rather have a little bleach in my weed then lose thousands of dollars and hours of hard work. Obviously this is being used as a last resort. Probably smoked it before and didn't even know.
chlorine is added to every municipal water supply. i'm pretty sure it's defined as consumable product.
First, It's pool shock because it's extremely concentrated hence the shock; I'm hoping you paid attention to the recipe which was only a little chlorine in the end due to mixing and using it so diluted. This is why one bag last so long. You can't use it in high concentrations or it will shock the plant due to too much chlorine. I'm hoping you also realize it's pure chlorine and nothing else, nobody is promoting using any chemicals.
