Any real grower knows Stealth hydroponics is a total waste of money for all the complete garbage that's included.
( and this is part of my entry )
I built my own DWC system after reading some of the DIY threads on RIU (like rosmans) and after all of the time and money I spent makin mistakes, mostly due to my own lack of DIY skillz, I kinda wish I would've just bought the damn thing pre-made!!!! In fact, i'll be looking into purchasing an SH sytem for my next grow.
And now for my story.
I started growing about 3-4 months ago in a 4 inch pot full of MG organic potting mix. My watering schedule was...... EVERYTIME I WALKED IN THERE!! and I did not once water without nutes. ( which BTW was Miracle Gro vegetable food )
Needless to say I was not very successful, so I turned to the all-knowing internet for answers and found RIU. Which immediately allowed me to at least, save the plants I did have alive and later on turned out to be males
After lurking the site for weeks I found some of Rosemans and other ppls DWC tutorials and decided this was toooo easy to pass up!! So at first I made a small bubbler out of a 3 gallon tupperware and the results were great right off the bat!! roots were goin crazy, clones were taking root in days, and I was a happy camper
So I decided to GO BIG!!! and made an 18 gal 16 site DWC sytem and the results were mixed, again because of lack of knowledge and experience.
the problem
After using the new system for a couple of weeks I noticed that any of the roots touching water were covered in a goopy, brownish substance that i'd never seen till this point. So I posted a thread hoping for some miracle cure, but didn't get too much action. Finally I found Rosemans SH thread and was amazed at the level of expertise these Bubbleheads displayed! After hrs of reading through many many pages I decided it would be easier too post a question ( I know, i'm terribly impatient) and wouldn't you know, the very next time I checked the thread MC had already responded with suggestions and hrs later roseman pitched in. Mere days after following their advice, and the recovery program, I came home to find that MY roots were clean, and my plants much happier because of it!! The key to my story is that DWC
IS SIMPLE and thanx to bubbleheads like MC and Roseman, it's also easy to learn!!
The method referred to in my story is
rosemans 8 step recovery
For more details on all my goins ons check my sig for my links!!
and here are sum of the pix I Took during my problem and now!!!