DWC Root Slime Cure aka How to Breed Beneficial Microbes

Hawzzy

Hawzzy

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J Henry said:
what does this particular tea really do, why all the sugar in it?
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This tea is full of beneficial bacteria and fungi that help create healthy, large, disease resistant rootmasses and plants. The microbes also aid in breaking down and making more nutrients available to the plant.

The sugar/molasses is food to wake up and feed the microbes in the tea so they can multiply.

I was able to repot 4 of the 6 plants in soil and save them and they have come back very well.
 
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jimmy311

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A guy sold me organic earth juice and said it was for hydro....help...I got it cuz of that... I got hydroguard myco madness and max but they ain't helping.. Guess cuz its 20gallons and I didn't use much hydroguard.. I put the microbes in ppl say that's my problem.. Or is it the organic earth juice thats only for soil..??
 
jimmy311

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Water temps 68-70
PH jumps up crazy high fast too..
Air is cool due to ac/dehumidifier
Had light leaks and organics in my hydro..bad idea with bacteria and fungi..used catalyst with myco madness and hydroguard. Didn't help
 
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THE KONASSURE

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anyone use "guard" from India ?

Trichoderma and talc from what I can tell, its £13 to £16 a KG delivered pretty exactly the same as any other company will charge you £5 to £150 for 10g to 300g of
 
Hawzzy

Hawzzy

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jimmy311 said:
Water temps 68-70
PH jumps up crazy high fast too..
Air is cool due to ac/dehumidifier
Had light leaks and organics in my hydro..bad idea with bacteria and fungi..used catalyst with myco madness and hydroguard. Didn't help
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Often the steadily rising PH is a sign of some funky goo. I had the same problem...think I introduced it with clones I pulled from dirt and put into my rdwc. I had to shut down half of my system...killed 2 plants....I transplanted 4 into dirt to try to save em and it worked. Im using GH flora trio nutes...used the tea from this thread and it saved my other 2 plants left in the rdwc.
Sounds like your temps are good....light leaks are other causes.
I havent tried putting the bennies directly into the rez yet....just with the tea.
 
jimmy311

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Hawzzy said:
Often the steadily rising PH is a sign of some funky goo. I had the same problem...think I introduced it with clones I pulled from dirt and put into my rdwc. I had to shut down half of my system...killed 2 plants....I transplanted 4 into dirt to try to save em and it worked. Im using GH flora trio nutes...used the tea from this thread and it saved my other 2 plants left in the rdwc.
Sounds like your temps are good....light leaks are other causes.
I havent tried putting the bennies directly into the rez yet....just with the tea.
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No I FD up and put golden tree..like last time I put earth juice organics.. Made sludge fast..yea u should of seen the gunk in my filter..ordered physan...think its from gnats
 
jimmy311

jimmy311

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Hawzzy said:
Hello everyone...great info. Figured id share my success story.

I was running two buckets plus a control, dwc, one with two plants one with four. THE SLIME
took over and I lost the four plant bucket very quickly....then I found this thread.

I removed the two remaining plants...drained and sterilized the system then filled with PHd water. Those two plants were bathed In a mild bleach solution while I cleaned everything.

Meanwhile I had already been brewing my tea fr 48 hours. My recipe is as follows...
Handful of Ancient Forest in a sock.
1 gallon water
1 to 2 tsp organic mollasses
1/4 tsp subculture b
I start with a cup of hot water to mix with the mollasses then add it to the bucket and bubble for an hour or two to remove the chlorine. (I always have a couple buckets sitting out at anytime)
I add an airline with a splitter and two air stones....one in the sock and one underneath.
Bubble for 48 hours stirring occasionally.
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Before tea...............after tea
Just 2 to 3 weeks between.

I have all the confidence in the world that using the tea as prevention from the beginning will aid in much success and healthy plants in the future
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One can u use tea with chemicals nutes..lk GH 3 part?
@Heisenberg I seen were a guy from imag Richie rich said u stole all his work..lol IDC I just need to save my plants ppl tell me h2o2 its not working tho
 
Heisenberg

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jimmy311 said:
One can u use tea with chemicals nutes..lk GH 3 part?
@Heisenberg I seen were a guy from imag Richie rich said u stole all his work..lol IDC I just need to save my plants ppl tell me h2o2 its not working tho
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I saw that a while back. I've given credit to Richy several times throughout this thread, and linked to his thread over at imag more than once. Though I doubt he is the first to ever think of using beneficials in hydro, he is responsible for the research into how best to incorporate them into a DWC and how to use them to fight slime.

He also seems to think I've encouraged people to call it "heisenberg tea," but I've never called it that myself and think it's silly. The goal of this thread was to popularize the information, not take credit for it.

That said, this thread represents my journey through making and using tea and researching why it works and how best to tweak it. It has been helped along in no small part by all the readers who have participated here at RUI. It's hardly just a reprint of his findings.

And yes, you can use the tea with GH 3 part with no problems.
 
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jimmy311

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Heisenberg said:
I saw that a while back. I've given credit to Richy several times throughout this thread, and linked to his thread over a imag more than once. Though I doubt he is the first to ever think of using beneficials in hydro, he is responsible for the research into how best to incorporate them into a DWC and how to use them to fight slime.

He also seems to think I've encouraged people to call it "heisenberg tea," but I've never called it that myself and think it's silly. The goal of this thread was to popularize the information, not take credit for it.

That said, this thread represents my journey through making and using tea and researching why it works and how best to tweak it. It has been helped along in no small part by all the readers who have participated here at RUI. It's hardly just a reprint of his findings.

And yes, you can use the tea with GH 3 part with no problems.
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Bought sm90 :( heard it don't kill microbes but I don't want microbes I want it clean of organic and back to the pro box ..they grew 5-6' in 2-3 months with heavy rdwc feedings :(
 
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jimmy311

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I got stuff to brew tea
Myco madness..bat guano hydrogaurd myco maximum I can get worm shit and the earth juice 5 too quarts of it... I wanna do super soil also or similar the Mass Whole super soil online is $50 for 1cu yard
Heisenberg said:
I saw that a while back. I've given credit to Richy several times throughout this thread, and linked to his thread over a imag more than once. Though I doubt he is the first to ever think of using beneficials in hydro, he is responsible for the research into how best to incorporate them into a DWC and how to use them to fight slime.

He also seems to think I've encouraged people to call it "heisenberg tea," but I've never called it that myself and think it's silly. The goal of this thread was to popularize the information, not take credit for it.

That said, this thread represents my journey through making and using tea and researching why it works and how best to tweak it. It has been helped along in no small part by all the readers who have participated here at RUI. It's hardly just a reprint of his findings.

And yes, you can use the tea with GH 3 part with no problems.
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