Anyways I decided to post my experience with this so called root slime, aka pythium.
The design of the dwc setup was 5 in a square and one in the middle, all buckets were connected by 3/4" pvc piping held together with barbed tips and grommets. We had a 50 gal res connected to a 3/4"pvc pipe and eventually reduce to 1/4" float valve which was connected to a "control" bucket where the water pump was located. We had approximately 3w/1gal of water with our air pump. We had no water temperature controller due to we had the water cooled in the res in a different room and the water in the dwc buckets never reached past 69. We first developed pythium within the first week of turning the key on the setup. All 5 of our plants had caught the disease and suffered greatly. We had battled this disease for a good 6 weeks, after the 2nd week we had decided to cut our losses and attempt to learn from this. We had spent arou d 250 $ in many different nutrient/chemical/aerobic applications all of which failed. Heres a list of what we tried and results.
Dutch master gold zone,
Product was our first attempt, after 24hr of application we had seen slight improvement, plants had started to not wilt and roots on a few plants seemed to shedding the nastiest film shit. After 48hrs the plants had looked like death again and we decided to remove roots off the plants of which it was most Infected at, we applied dutch master gold zone at 2x our originally dose, left the plants to sit in a very strong application of it and some peroxide added to the mix for about 2hrs, we had then recleaned our whole system for the 2nd time. Again after 12hrs of new treatment the roots that remained had fell victim and we put dutch masters gold zone away.
Peroxide, 3% to 97%
Not going to comment much on this as nobody should take this route, all strengths had failed and pythium recovered within 12hrs.
Great white bennies
We had tried several applications of this product, we had brewed some light warrior enriched aact and added some of this for kicks, this product seemed the most effective applied with a good aact already, these bennies had fought a long hard battle but ultimately lost, the plants one day would seem to be ona road of recovery but then the next few hours they could end up looking like shit. Product was discontinued after 4 days and no promising results. We also applied orca and tarantula during certain feedings, nothing proved promising.
Orca
Exact same results as above.
Tarantula
Exact same results as orca and great white.
Plant success soluble
Applied on its own and it had no results besides pythium still being there after 5 days.
Bleach
Promising results as long as the plant had highly concentrated amounts, not recommended as this will kill all bennies In the water and is toxic at highly doses for plants. Discontinued due to product was more harm the beneficial at our late stage pythium war.
Dropping temps to 65
Pythium was still there even as we applied different products.
Alcohol
Tried some everclear cause we were buzzed and it had been the final week of the plants life, noticed slight improvement but varied at doses and this needs to be tested In a more controlled enviroment. I do not recommend any alcohol based products.
We had a few other tricks up our sleeve and Ill post them as I remember the Information, we had tried everything In the book that was accessible to us, please note I lived 140 miles from the nearest hydro store, shit was impossible to get.
Anyways after many different attempts we had convened and decided that root slime aka pythium is a force not to be reckoned with. We had bleached our system and cleaned with many different products in between every new idea, we tried many different aact's and they had proven Ineffectivw. Note some people may have cured their pythium but take It fro mme its a battle and will only be won early on. I recommend just scrapping the plants early as possible and clean the fuck outta everything, dont waste more and more money like we did, but I am happy we did cause It was the best learning experience to date.
