dwc dark brown roots help!!!!!

so its my first grow im doin a dwc im 36 days flowering
and my roots are dark brown
why is this???
how do i fix it????

how is the plant looking? do you have pics? The roots could be brown bc of the water temp being too high. Test the water temp. or if the plant is still budding and looking fine dont worry about it.

forget that last advise, your plant will die if you dont correct that problem. Get some hygrozyme or something similar and add it to the water. Until then i would give my roots a hydrogen peroxide bath. Temps are kind of important in your rez as well try to keep around 68 degrees. It sounds like you have root rot and your plant will DIE if not corrrected asap. If your roots start to dissolve which happens naturally to dead roots, you will have ppm fluctuations which is not good. Add some air stones to water as well and it should help some.

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forget that last advise, your plant will die if you dont correct that problem. Get some hygrozyme or something similar and add it to the water. Until then i would give my roots a hydrogen peroxide bath. Temps are kind of important in your rez as well try to keep around 68 degrees. It sounds like you have root rot and your plant will DIE if not corrrected asap. If your roots start to dissolve which happens naturally to dead roots, you will have ppm fluctuations which is not good. Add some air stones to water as well and it should help some.

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On the other hand, your roots may just be stained by the Bloom nutes. What are you using?

Vi

sorry no root pics till tomorow

I use the botanicare base with the veg and bloom mix your plant looks pretty good. how often do you change your water? maybe you need to quit taking it out of the water.

are you using a 3gallon or 5

How is your PH? PH fluctuations can be an indeicator that you have molds in your system. So can PPM fluctuations.

If you have root rot you need not only to cure it but also to find out why it happened in the first place.

Can you post more details of your DWC system.
Important factors are.

Water temp - Warm water can not hold as much Dissoloved Oxigen as cool water. for optimum growth you need to keep it at 68F (3 -/+)

Airation. You need to be keeping that liquid airated. I use 2x Airpumps per 20Liter Rez. Thats 450Liters Per hour, into three 6" air stones. (Next grow I will add more.)
It is also good to keep the water moving, A power head or submersable pump does this job, they also add more air to the mix.

Rez change. How offten do you change your rez?
As my Rez is small (20Liter) I change it once a week. when I do this, I scrub everything clean, make sure all the pumps are working before putting them back.

Water level, depending on the size of your rez you will need to top up once or twice a day, to keep the water level right.



The most likly course of Root Rot is a lack of oxigen in the water, most commenly this happens beacuse the water temp is too high. You can have hundreds of bubbles in your rez, but if the ogegen is unable to disolve into the water, you will have problems. Altatued also effects this, so if you are a few 100 feet above sea level, the effects will be more extream.

As for a cure.

First find out what has coursed your problem.
Clean everything.
Flush the system, with Plain water and H202, for a day or so. Then change out the water, and use an Enzyme to eat dead root matter.
If you have any root stimulators these will help.
Use low nute loads, as your roots are damaged and won't be able to handle high PPms.
Change out the water frequently.

Befor you do this make sure it is root rot. Post us some pictures of your roots.
If you have rot Your Rez should smell something like rotten cabage.
You could just have stained roots from your nutes, so find that out if it is normal first.

fucking disgusting!


keep those temp below 68f in your res.

add some h202...aerate that res

i think my nute temp is to high its usualy at 85ish

is it root rot?

if so is it bad?

HELL YES TO BOTH QUESTIONS!!!!!


your res is sitting @ 85? wowowowowowowoow way too high...about 15-20 degrees to high

how do i drop res temps

cheap tedious daily required action: drop some ice cubes or fill 2liters up with water and freeze it..... those cool pack freezer things work good too

expensive action: water res chillers you can set at a constant temp without having to worry about refilling with ice

res temp is now down to 71.9 in my res is this good

UNDER 70!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i've said it many times....

drop it down and keep it at average from around 60-68

where can i get a water res chiller

An idea, Sperate the rez from the room, with insolation.

Get some of those polastirean sheets from you hardware store. and place them between your Rez and your light. You will have to cut holes to go around the plants and stuff, but it should be possible. Then place a fan blowing cool air around the bottom of your Rezes. this should work and is a lot cheaper than a water cooler.

You might need to double up the polastirean insolation, to block any gaps.

Hey it's not the easyest best soloution, but is cheap and you can do it strait away, while you look for your water coola.

I have manged to keep my rezes cool, just buy have the intake fan blowing onto them and insolating them.