Set up: 7 gallon Current Culture tub/bucket. Standard 2 hose air pump. Net pot with small Grodan cubes on bottom and on sides of the Grodan block. No light leaks in tub and water temp is always below 70 and above 60 (62-67).
Nutrients: Was using Advanced Nutrients original formula Micro Grow Bloom, Cal-Mag+, Protekt Silica, B-52, SeaGreen Hydro, (few other additives here and there) - But recently switched to AN Jungle Juice A&B formula w/ the silica and cal-mag, no more B-52, SeaGreen and any other additives (Switched nutes to see if would help with root problem or the build up)
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Since the beginning I've been having this problem you see in the pictures. There's this type of brown gunk or build up on my roots, the stuff rinses off when sprayed down with water, but still leaves the roots stained and not clean white.
I thought it was maybe from the additives leaving a salt/gunk build up, so I cut all additives and used only MGB, Silica, & Cal-Mag. After dropping the additives I noticed the gunk/build up coming back so I changed base nutrients to Jungle Juice, I thought I read somewhere the MGB formula was an organic formula which left build ups on other growers roots and side of buckets (reason why I dropped the additives in the beginning).
So I did a lot of experimenting with my nutrients, using this product and removing this product thinking it was from a certain product. But I'm not really seeing any improvements. I just did a rez change about a day or 2 ago using only Jungle Juice, Cal-Mag+, and Protekt Silica. I scrub good and do a root rinse with every rez change (which happens every 7-14 days). I recently picked up some Cannazym to help breakdown dead root material, but not really noticing any difference with it.
Seems like anything I do doesn't work. Can the Jungle Juice leave any type of build up on roots? Anyone ever experience the issue with those nutes?
I'm waiting for black friday to come so I can go drop $100(40% off) or so on nutrients to stock back up and pick up a few products for a tea recipe I read for beneficial microbes.
By looking at the pictures and what you've read, could any of you diagnose what my problem is? Is it a root slime? What can I do?
Also, what is a great nutrient line to use for DWC that doesn't leave any type of build up anywhere in tub/bucket? (Would like to try em out to see if nute build up is even the issue here)
ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED
Thank you!
morph
Nutrients: Was using Advanced Nutrients original formula Micro Grow Bloom, Cal-Mag+, Protekt Silica, B-52, SeaGreen Hydro, (few other additives here and there) - But recently switched to AN Jungle Juice A&B formula w/ the silica and cal-mag, no more B-52, SeaGreen and any other additives (Switched nutes to see if would help with root problem or the build up)
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Since the beginning I've been having this problem you see in the pictures. There's this type of brown gunk or build up on my roots, the stuff rinses off when sprayed down with water, but still leaves the roots stained and not clean white.
I thought it was maybe from the additives leaving a salt/gunk build up, so I cut all additives and used only MGB, Silica, & Cal-Mag. After dropping the additives I noticed the gunk/build up coming back so I changed base nutrients to Jungle Juice, I thought I read somewhere the MGB formula was an organic formula which left build ups on other growers roots and side of buckets (reason why I dropped the additives in the beginning).
So I did a lot of experimenting with my nutrients, using this product and removing this product thinking it was from a certain product. But I'm not really seeing any improvements. I just did a rez change about a day or 2 ago using only Jungle Juice, Cal-Mag+, and Protekt Silica. I scrub good and do a root rinse with every rez change (which happens every 7-14 days). I recently picked up some Cannazym to help breakdown dead root material, but not really noticing any difference with it.
Seems like anything I do doesn't work. Can the Jungle Juice leave any type of build up on roots? Anyone ever experience the issue with those nutes?
I'm waiting for black friday to come so I can go drop $100(40% off) or so on nutrients to stock back up and pick up a few products for a tea recipe I read for beneficial microbes.
By looking at the pictures and what you've read, could any of you diagnose what my problem is? Is it a root slime? What can I do?
Also, what is a great nutrient line to use for DWC that doesn't leave any type of build up anywhere in tub/bucket? (Would like to try em out to see if nute build up is even the issue here)
ALL HELP IS APPRECIATED
Thank you!
morph